The Lakers underwent big-time changes this summer, adding LeBron James and an interesting cast of supporting players, but the core of the team aside from James remains the youth: Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma and Lonzo Ball. While LeBron tends to play the role of a point-forward, or rather a do-everything forward, Ball’s best attribute is still his passing. It’ll be fascinating to see how the two co-exist on the floor. But before all of that, Ball must regain full health, and yesterday he took a solid step in that direction, per the Daily Breeze:
By the end of Thursday’s training camp session, Lonzo Ball felt fatigued. But he was more focused on what he didn’t feel.
Pain.
For the first time this season, Ball, the 20-year-old second-year point guard felt healthy enough to go through an entire practice. Since a knee injury that ended his rookie year prematurely and led to offseason surgery for a torn meniscus, Ball has been sidelined and limited from full competition.
While he’s not likely to take the floor in Sunday’s preseason opener against the Denver Nuggets, getting back into a full practice felt like a significant step in the right direction after months of restrictions.
“Did the whole practice. Did everything today,” he said. “Obviously I was a little tired but had to get back.”
