5 Reasons Why the Los Angeles Lakers Could Surpass Expectations Next Year

The Los Angeles Lakers will have their work cut out for them in 2014-15, but there are a number of ways in which they could outperform the dismal expectations for them.

Just how bleak to things look? Well, according to ESPN's summer standings forecast, the Lake Show will stumble its way to a 30-52 record and a 12th-place finish in the West. Considering the cynical commentary ESPN included from two example tweeters, a lot will have to go L.A.'s way just to reach that unsatisfying result.

That popular point of view makes a number of assumptions about the Laker personnel—hobbled, raw or otherwise flawed....

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