Rob Pelinka Shares Big Plan For Last 2 Remaining Roster Spots

Rob Pelina has shared a big plan for the last two remaining roster spots. The Los Angeles Lakers are going to get their season started in a little under one month from now. They will be taking on the Golden State Warriors on October 20th to start the season off. The roster will look a bit different than last year. With the addition of Russell Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony, some people are wondering how the team will mesh together. Westbrook had some things to say about that.

“Being from LA, you always wish that you could play for your home team,” Westbrook said. “That’s definitely something that always circled around in my mind. Maybe one day? But I always would come back and be like, ‘Ah, that probably won’t happen.’ I just had to wait and see. But now that we’re here, I’m going to take full advantage of it.”

“LeBron is one of the best players to play this game, and his ability to do everything on the floor allows me to just figure it out,” Westbrook said. “I’m coming to a championship-caliber team, and my job is to make his game easy for him, and I’ll find ways to do that. As it pertains to ball-handling, it really doesn’t matter. There’s many different ways you can impact the game without having the ball in your hands. I’ve been able to do that for a number of years, and we’ll figure it out.”

Rob Pelinka Shares Big Plan For Last 2 Remaining Roster Spots

But some are wondering what the last two roster spots will be going forward. Well, Rob Pelinka shares some of his thoughts.

“We do have two open roster spots, 14 and 15,” Pelinka said. “Most likely 15 will be held (open), just with the tax implications and also holding that potentially for the buyout deadline. That’s usually a tool that a lot of contenders use. So I think there’s a likelihood there.”

“We’re never absolute, we’re always fluid and anything could be presented. And we are in kind of our final evaluations on what to do with the 14th spot,” Pelinka said. “That’s something that we will make the decision on and around before camp starts on Tuesday. So we’re still kind of evaluating that as we speak.”

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