After Doncic teamed up with LeBron James, Los Angeles had championship aspirations. Instead, the Lakers were run off the court by the Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs.

Despite playing high-level basketball after landing Luka Doncic in February, the franchise failed to make noise in the playoffs, resulting in an uneventful postseason. Although the consensus is the Lakers should build around Doncic and James this summer,

Lakers star Luka Doncic was in obvious pain and went to the locker room following a hard foul in the first half of Game 5.