LOS ANGELES – Now in his second season as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers , JJ Redick has often mentioned the need for the Lakers to be in what he calls, ‘championship shape .’ The team has started off the 2025-26 season at 10-4 which is currently good enough for fourth place in the Western Conference. For Rui Hachimura , one of the Lakers’ starting forwards, that championship shape is crucial to compete in today’s NBA.

“It’s [the NBA] more physical, but I think it’s faster. Everybody wants to go fast now. 140-150 points is normal now. Everybody is scoring like that,” Hachimura said following Lakers’ shootaround on Tuesday morning. “We have to be in the shape like JJ’s been talking about, championship shape. We need to think about that every game, every day, practicing it in ga

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