End-of-Season Grades for Each Los Angeles Lakers Player

For a team that seemed destined for yet another draft lottery pick, the Los Angeles Lakers have recently turned an unexpected corner by winning again.The Purple and Gold have been victorious in their last four games.It has diminished the lottery odds for their top-three-protected draft pickpotentially robbing them of the spoils that come with a losing season.But theres more to the future than tanking.First year head coach Luke Walton addressed the renewed effort after Fridays win against the Sacramento Kings, per Shahan Ahmed of NBC Los Angeles:"This is what we try to do. It's not easy, too, because late in the season, normally, you check out if you're not in the playoff race. So, I'm really proud of our guysthe way they've continued to work."It has been a year of twists and turnsthe arrival of rookies, disappointing free agent acquisitions, mid-season trades and a front office shakeup. Jim Buss is out as the head of basketball operations and Mitch Kupchak is no longer the general manager. In are Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka as their replacements.The Lakers road back to prominence is still long and difficult to predict. But evaluation is the name of the game at the momenthence the annual doling out of season-ending player grades.Begin Slideshow
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