The Los Angeles Lakers lost their most recent game, 129–109 to the New Orleans Pelicans. Before the game, LA head coach Darvin Ham said that Rui Hachimura would replace the hurt Cam Reddish in the starting rotation for a long time, according to Khobi Price of The Orange County Register. Because of a sоre hip, Reddish has missed two of LA’s last three games.

As you can see, Ham said, “This lineup is going to stay the same for a while.” 

To be fair, he also made a big change to his starting five last week, which he said would last. Ham put Jarred Vanderbilt in the starting unit instead of D’Angelo Russell, who was the starting point guard. LA will likely make a change again if he has enough losses. 

He seems to be very allergic to starting reserve combo guard Austin Reaves. Reaves would be a natural choice to add some secondary creativity alongside 39-year-old superstar LeBron James, who is currently playing point guard out of position to make room for Hachimura and Vanderbilt, the other two power forwards in this starting lineup. At the moment, Vanderbilt and Hachimura are switching places at forward, with Vanderbilt usually playing the three because he can guard anyone but can’t Һit the broad side of a barn. On the other hand, Hachimura is a better defender against bigs than anyone else.