When the Los Angeles Lakers entered the NBA‘s free-agency period in late June and early July, it looked like they had any number of possibilities ahead of them. There was a chance, even, that they could keep LeBron James around for another year or so, and build off a core of James, Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, a group that played well together when healthy. But they moved on from James in the early going of the summer and instead put together …