Wings, wings, wings. Everywhere people look across the NBA, wings have become perhaps the most indispensable type of player teams need in order to become successful.
Early this season, the Los Angeles Lakers had a glaring lack of productive or reliable wings. But a series of midseason trades brought them a couple of useful ones — Rui Hachimura from the Washington Wizards and Jarred Vanderbilt from the Utah Jazz.
Yet after getting swept by the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference finals, the Lakers find themselves one or two decent wings short of being a championship-caliber team.
In preparation for the 2023 NBA draft, they recently worked out Justyn Mutts, a bigger wing from Virginia Tech.