Thoughts on this? Honestly, hope this also means we’ll see him load manage less (assuming he doesn’t have a freak injury). I’d be ok with this if they’re expecting him to play like 70+ games. That said, if he’s only going to play around 50 games then I feel like this minute restriction is basically just going to make the Lakers lose a lot more games.
I can’t see him playing 28-30 minutes, playing 70+ games and the Olympics. The last 3 years he hasn’t played more than 56.
He’s number might be good but he’s never played a full season with the Lakers.