Blueprint for LA Lakers to Go from Playoff Joke to Title-Worthy Team

The Los Angeles Lakers' roster provided us with $100 million worth of NBA playoff jokes, only none of the punchlines were funny.

Injuries left the Lakers depleted, unorganized and on the precipice of implosion all season. Once Kobe Bryant went down with a ruptured Achilles, they finally reached a breaking point.

Clad with the knowledge that Dwight Howard's future is up in the air, their roster compromised by the health and age of their players and that they have absolutely no cap space, Mitch Kupchak and the Lakers must devise a plan. Just like they did last summer. Only this time, they need to put themselves in a position to stick to it.

Hollywood's finest—whoever they may be—will enter next season shrouded in ambivalence. W...

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