Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[mvossman]

I agree with this, but Luka also intimated that last season was the first time he basically didn't enjoy playing basketball at all in his career. For someone like him who's love for playing the game is infectious and clearly drives him since he despises doing any of the necessary training involved to be in good condition to play, that's a pretty eye opening statement. And he seemed to blame it at least partially on the poor locker room environment. So you have the factor of not only a poorly conditioned Luka which we've seen before, but a Luka who stopped enjoying playing.

Fingers crossed both things get better next season, but especially the enjoying playing part, and the new guys we are bringing in being great locker room guys and good people hopefully impacts the locker room positively.

Luka's love for the game seemed to be struggling prior to the Kyrie trade.  I'm guessing it was a combination of missing some of his buddies, losing more games, and I would not be surprised if Wood was a negative locker room factor.