Regardless of what happens in free agency, the Lakers are still on the verge of making a leap

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For what feels like the first time in years, the Los Angeles Lakers are in a good place. The team who is often associated with their historic lineage of players and nearly unmatched championship success has found themselves floundering in recent seasons as they attempt to recapture the glitz and glamour they used to have in abundance. When Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka were first introduced as the new faces of the team's basketball operations, they echoed a similar and consistent message — develop the young core and create the financial “flexibility” necessary to be major players in free-agency and return the franchise to prominence. Now with all that said, the question fans and those with ties to the team must be prepared to possibly face in the near future is—what happens if the team strikes out once again?

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