Lakers Give MULTIPLE Updates... This is HUGE

This is huge, as the Lakers just gave multiple updates in regards to several players on the team as the Purple and Gold look to get a full, healthy roster ahead of the preseason finale. And welcome to Lakers Digest, my name is Hunter Pitkoff, where we cover everything surrounding your Los Angeles Lakers, whether it be different rumors, reports, breaking news, as well as different trades, signings. The final preseason game, like I said, is Friday night, as well as the start of the regular season, which is just a handful of days away this is the place to be for your purple and gold just hit the subscribe button so you don't miss a thing here on this channel and look the Lakers they've been guys in and out of the lineup throughout the preseason J.J. Redick had said that he was looking to get the full rotation back before this Friday night game against the Denver Nuggets and look he very well might and so this is what he had to say during Thursday's practice again right before the game um this is what he says that Zaire Williams was a full participant in practice he said Colin Sexton did everything but uh live which is live practice so he did all the drills for an hour and did some up and down drills versus coaches and then we played live the rest of practice and there's some videos out there of Colin Sexton practicing actually with JJ Redick again some shots up uh and then he also said Adu was a participant Cam Carr is out everyone else is trending in the right direction we've seen guys like Walker Kessler who hurt his finger we saw him make his preseason debut did a pretty nice job there um but this potentially could mean that do the Zaire Williams and Colin Sexton perhaps they do end up playing in this game uh coming up here 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Calcio it's super easy this is all you have to do just use the link down below in our description or in our pinned comment section and just use that promo code right on the screen there digest mba they get 55 added to your account instantly when playing your first five or sorry your first 25 bucks so uh like i said right uh jj reddick having some some good optimism here about the lakers uh Zaire Williams also got in on the mix here as well saying that he feels good it's up to the staff now uh he believes he's in good hands he's been taken care of uh and he feels like he is ready to go as long as they say i am so this sounds like a player who's eager to get back we've also heard uh or basically kind of seeing the Zaire Williams maybe the lakers kind of revealed their cards a little bit uh and he could perhaps be the starter for the lakers come opening night uh which again october 21st so it's coming up uh against the golden state warriors before we talk about the regular season a little bit we're gonna pump the breaks and let's talk about uh ending on a mile high note if you know denver uh is the mile high city so we love a good little pun there while we can get it so this is what JJ Redick also had to say um just in regards to um how he's been feeling uh during training camp here and during the summer uh saying that he would have loved to have had gotten looks with everybody healthy and everyone he got uh good to go but we also have to be smart with an 82 game season i think in terms of integrating all the new guys that we have that have been available which i think is everybody except for colin in live play it's been pretty seamless they're a smart group i think there's more of those two i could be wrong or else this was it all right that was it all right the second quote i have here was a little bit longer from JJ Redick this is what he had to say also as well uh because we've had more practices this offseason and we've had two extended periods of good practice time we've been probably able to install more particularly on the defensive end then we have in the last couple of years pretty interesting they're uh saying last year we had six total practices in preseason because of the amount of games and the back-to-backs and the travel and all that and i guess i was lebron calling out the nba when they had to go to milwaukee for a game um on the east coast like that was not east coast but central time still two hours from la um where was i uh last year we had six total practices in preseason because the amount of games and the back-to-backs and the travel and all that and we played opening night so that's another day we didn't get the practice i think we ended up with 12 this year 12 compared to six that's a very big difference especially with a group of guys that nine or about nine or ten of them are new players so that is definitely a massive difference and jj is appreciative of that saying that we have to double the amount of practice time so i think that's a blessing when you have new guys definitely a good thing uh for the Los Angeles Lakers uh to have at their disposal here and i think in this last game too i think we are going to perhaps see a good amount of players playing in this game uh which is definitely going to be uh a good thing for the lakers here so right now on digest media this is uh what they have projected as the uh starting lineup again i did not make this this is what our uh our our systems have so and this is not set in stone i i think it's pretty close to accurate though um jj had already announced that luca austin walker kessler they're going to start that's pretty obvious what does the rest of the rotation look like though i think Quentin Grimes is right there where he should be because right um offensively he can play the three defensively though he can be a guard and you kind of swap Luka in that sense Luka's gonna be guarding more uh forwards and and Grimes I think will be guarding more of wings uh and Quentin Grimes to me I think he's had a solid preseason here he's had some moments some down moments too but I think overall he's been pretty good I think of all the guys that are available to be in the starting lineup I just think he's the best player of them and the one that kind of just makes the most sense and they're paying him 50 million dollars a year so I think he's going to be solidifying himself in that starting lineup that next spot I think is where it could get interesting but like I alluded to before I think it's going to be Zaire Williams that gets it you see J.J. Redick using Zaire as that ball pressure guy I thought that'd be Grimes but if it's going to be Zaire Williams I think he's the best player on the team that's capable of doing that and it seems like J.J. Redick thinks that too. And so I think that he will be in the starting lineup for the Lakers here. And then their bench guys, Mamu, who I really like what I've seen out of Mamu. That dude can play. I think he's going to be coming off the bench. Collin will be coming off the bench, assuming he's ready to go for opening night, which sounds like he should be. Fingers crossed. I think Matisse Thybulle is going to be one of those guys, especially with the veteran experience. And I think that's your nine. Kevon Looney, I've been very disappointed with what I've seen from him. I think the Lakers need to get an upgrade there, personally, at that backup five spot. I'm fine with Mamu, depending on certain looks, getting the five look, but I think they need a legitimate backup five, so they don't have to rely on Mamu to play undersized, or Kevon Looney, who's just, honestly, guys, just not good enough at what the Lakers need right now, and that's been evident. But, you know, other guys, too, like Cameron Carr and Adu Thero, I think they can get their opportunities as well as young players at some point this season as well, so I'm excited to see how all of that plays out for the Lakers. But keep up with everything surrounding your Lakers, different rumors, reports, breaking news, as well as different trade signings, which we might have a video on that relatively soon as I got some interesting information here in regards to what the Lakers might be doing. But that's a little tease if you watch the news at all. But to keep up with all that, as well as preseason coverage, I'll be covering that Friday night here for you guys. 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