I definitely don’t want another max-salaried teammate who holds us back.

Metta World Peace: ?

He was watching the video, but he wasn't thinking about how to defend; instead, he was thinking about how to make the offense better...

This season's regular scoring performance was indeed his best year since he joined the Lakers four years ago, averaging 12.6 points per game, 1.6 steals per game which was a new high since the 07-08 season, blocks and rebounds were also at a four-year high, and he even had the second-highest average of 1.9 three-pointers made in his career... But!

That was after he cut down from 115 kg to 108 kg, losing over ten pounds, and switched to playing as a power forward, helping to defend under the basket and spreading out to shoot long twos and threes.

Having him at power forward, sharing the defensive load with Pau Gasol, he was barely enough, single-guarding Ibaka, he could manage, but guarding Durant...