The Lakers also need more perimeter defenders and shooting. Bottom line, by next Christmas we shouldn’t all be asking of the Lakers “who is their fourth-best player?” Or fifth? We were asking those questions this past week. The Lakers changed their ...

The Los Angeles Lakers' season is over, courtesy of a Minnesota Timberwolves team that had them on their back foot for much of their first-round series. The Timberwolves beat the Lakers, 103-96, on Wednesday to finish off the series in five games,