The 2016-17 campaign has officially begun for the Los Angeles Lakers. How will their final 15-man roster and depth chart look when training camp comes to an end?
Believe it or not, the Los Angeles Lakers are only about a month away from getting their 2016-17 campaign under way. Training camp has tipped off, and it’s time to start looking towards a brighter future for one of the NBA’s most storied franchises.
At this moment, there are 20 players on the Lakers’ roster. Before their first game of the upcoming season gets under way, that number will need to shrink to 15. That means there are going to be some tough decisions to make in the next month.
Before those decisions are made, though, it seems logical to predict how the Lakers’ roster will look when training camp is over. That’s really all we can do at this point–speculate.
I know there are only so many ways this can turn out in the end. Unless a no-name training camp invitee surprises, there won’t be too many shocking roster decisions in the coming month. Still, the final spot or two could very well be up in the air.
And then there’s determining the depth chart, which is a whole other story.
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Instead of diving too deeply into that here, let’s just take a look at my predictions for the Lakers’ final roster and depth chart for the 2016-17 season.