The Los Angeles Lakers must learn from the Golden State Warriors about the difficulty of blending timelines. It's a perfectly enticing idea, as a franchise could conceivably set themselves up for the future while honoring the past. In theory, that could create quite a rewarding present.
Much as the Warriors never truly committed to either timeline when drafting Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody to help Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, however, the Lakers are suddenly swerving in and out of lanes.
Los Angeles has embraced its present with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves at the heart of their plans.