Should LA Lakers Be Chasing Wins or the Future This Season?

The Los Angeles Lakers, as a franchise, are in a bit of precarious situation.

On one hand, the Lakers should be all-in on competing for the playoffs and giving Kobe Bryant the best possible chance at playoff success in the last few years of his career. He deserves as much.

On the other hand, the Lakers should be preparing for life after Kobe, and developing young players to better the future and make sure the franchise doesn't tailspin like it did last year after losing Bryant for nearly the whole season.

That isn't to say the two goals need to be mutually exclusi...

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