Despite entering the 2022-2023 season with eight-time All-Star Anthony Davis and (possibly) former MVP Russell Westbrook in a dangerous starting lineup on paper, expectations are currently quite low for first-year head coach Darvin Ham’s squad. The Lakers won the NBA title in the “bubble” less than two years ago but since then have exited in the first round of the 2021 playoffs and failed to make the tournament in 2022.
