Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we look at Luka Dončić.

Even with the trade nearly six months in the rearview mirror, it’s hard to fathom that the Lakers are in this position.

This time last year, the questions surrounding the Lakers involved whether the championship window with LeBron James and Anthony Davis still existed and whether the team should go all in if so. The hope was that AD would take the proverbial torch and lead the franchise into the post-LeBron era, though that remained to be seen.

Now, there’s no question about who the present and future of the Lakers revolves around. And it’s not LeBron

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