Welcome to our annual Lakers season in review series, where we’ll look back at each player on the team’s roster this season and evaluate if they should be part of the future of the franchise. Today, we finish our look at the players with Luka Dončić.

In what was probably the most disruptive year of his life and surely the most of his NBA career, Luka Dončić began the 2024-25 season looking to rebound from an NBA Finals defeat and take his Mavericks one step further to hang a banner for the organization that drafted him to being traded in the middle of the night to the Lakers in a monumental swap.

It was the type of trade people didn’t believe in the moment and could still barely grasp weeks later, with every picture or clip of Luka in a Lakers uniform still feeling like the photo

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