And Reaves is undrafted as well, how many players that we have seen undrafted turn out to be like Austin Reaves. And in his first year with the Lakers there was a lot of hype around him and others say that he was just a 2 way player and will be back to the G-League. But the turns out to be another White Mamba for the Lakers and after that he was never traded by the Lakers and they kept him and now their another offensive option after Lebron and Luka.

Right, the Lakers is back at #3 now as they beat the Nuggets. Not sure what the Nuggets are doing by resting Jokic and Murray again. Are they trying to get to a comfortable spot and face a team that they think they have the advantage in the playoff series?

Yes, they shouldn't be complacent to try to land a good opponent in the playoff. Last year, if I'm not mistaken, the Mavs was in 5th or 6th place and they completely blow everyone leading to the finals.

Jokic might have rested more here, but in the series, he could be bruised and so it's very different ball game. Maybe they have learn something from the previous seasons, but still doesn't look good if they are somewhat tanking in the regular season.

That's part of the plan.

They need to let him rest for the bigger games that are coming to them. They're brilliant with that strat and they still have some other players that are ready to cover for him.

Before, this team isn't being noticed. But thanks to this big man Joker that they're noticed together with the other good players they have too. He deserve to take a rest while getting paid. 

I agree that having a couple of superstars on a roster is optimal for a team to be competitive and potentially contend for a title. In fact, having good role(versatile) players is just as important as having superstars. However, the desire of team management to recruit too many superstars often doesn't lead to anything good in the end. The Nets and Suns' results in recent seasons are a good example of that.

I hope he has some more games like this one because I bet on over 75 points for the season.  Right now he has 50 points so there is still a chance if he gets some more minutes.
I also bet on more than 5 3s made this season and with the game today he has 6, so this bet is won already, at least. 

Well, he lead the whole team filled with role players with 17 points, but the problem is, he's-36 which is the 2nd lowest only to Shake Milton who got -37. Overall, this might be a good night for him in terms of points and efficiency, but having that kind of plus-minus shows how low of an impact he is when on the court. He scored a new NBA career high, but his team lost big time. If only the Lakers are the top seeded team, I expect that Bronny will be given more playing time... or I should say more garbage time.

I looked at the standings on the West, and asked myself if the Lakers can afford to lose one game especially how tight the standings are in their conference. They're 1.5 games below the 2nd seeded Houston Rockets, and 2.5 games above the 6th seeded Warriors so I would say that this is just a game that can afford to lose anyway, and this is a good time to put their star players to rest as well in preparation for the playoffs.

Well in general, players should have a rest still, but only if you can afford to rest your key players. Now if you're on a situation where you can't afford to lose even just one game then I don't see any reason why you should rest your players in preparation for the playoffs. Most of these are those play-in teams where they can't afford to rest their star player/s. The Thunder are the ones that can afford to do it because they're above by many games on the 2nd seeded Rockets. As for Jokic and the Nuggets, they're on the safe spot so one game for them to rest isn't a big deal at all.

We are just about to end the regular season though, and they have been in a good position. However, losing games and then their rankings going down might not be good for them in the long run.

They need to be competitive, last year they played all throughout the season and even tied with the best record if my memory serves me right. But this time, it looks like they are not interested on the rankings, they just look to make the playoff.

This is the first time seeing Bronny making such a big contribution to Lakers. I must admit that I'm very surprised. 

Because honestly I'm also one of the people who don't find him a good fit for NBA. The G League is where he belongs normally. At least until he improves for real.

But still great to see him shining even in a game they lost by 30 points against Bucks. There was no Doncic and no LeBron in this game.

That sequence is spreading everywhere https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nu6T-VQCPg0

Imagine if Bronny complete that drive for sure many people would made fun on Giannis. But Buck star got save in that sequence and luckily Bronny didn't make it.  We see how Bronny got confidence on this game and he really get a spot light for today's game since we see him taking the charge together with Knecht for Lakers. But as expected many people think about Lakers would lose especially that Luka and other important players is not playing today.