The 17-time NBA champions have made multiple trades to bolster the roster, with the most prominent one being the addition of Luka Doncic. Well, let's put Doncic's trade on the backburner and focus on the unexpected positive impact of the previous D'Angelo Russell trade.

On Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers will play the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City. For the game, they could be without their best player, as Luka Doncic is

Doncic played 24 minutes in a blowout win in his debut and 23 minutes Wednesday in a sluggish loss — both against the lowly Jazz. “Yes, he was completely out of shape, and you could see he was gassed early,” Ryen Russillo said on his podcast while speaking with ESPN’s Tim Legler, the analyst for Doncic’s Lakers debut Monday.