Ira Winderman: Lakers setting up like 2010 Heat

[ASFN Admin]

The Lakers are the Heat. Or, more to the point, these Lakers stand to be what the Heat were in 2010. With this, curiously, yet another moment in NBA time when LeBron James is mulling options beyond Cleveland and when another NBA star is looking to get away – with a third piece positioned to form a Big Three. No, it won't be as simple to get LeBron, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George together as it was for LeBron, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade to come together with the Heat in 2010. But it is possible. And workable. With one Lakers icon (Magic Johnson) attempting to repeat what another (Pat Riley) did for the Heat in July 2010. Start with LeBron. Shortly after Udonis Haslem mentioned Thursday at the Heat's

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