Since acquiring Doncic, the Lakers are ninth in 3-point percentage (36.2 percent), and that’s despite their shiny new star, who takes a majority of their 3-pointers, shooting 24.1 percent from deep in February.

Not all that long ago, such a prospect would have been quite the stretch, given where each of the two storied rivals were in their respective contention arcs. But after the Lakers were practically gifted a potential generational talent in Luka Doncic by the Dallas Mavericks,

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