Deep down, most of us fear aging. We know this isn’t the type of thing you’re looking to read in an NBA article, but it remains a reality: life provides too many reminders of our own mortality.
At the same time, there are fewer advantages in life more significant than experience. If you’ve been there before, and someone else hasn’t, chances are you’ll handle the situation more ably.
All the same, try telling that to the Los Angeles Lakers. They had one of the most experienced rosters in the whole league last year.
In the end, they had nothing to show for it besides 33 wins and an early vacation.
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Perhaps an injection of youth would benefit this roster. The Lakers seem to think so, having already added young guns like Lonnie Walker IV and Thomas Bryant to their roster this summer.
Here’s a deal that has them adding one more by acquiring Cam Reddish from the New York Knicks.