NBA: One x-factor for every team heading into the restart

Los Angeles Lakers

X-factor: Kyle Kuzma 

The Los Angeles Lakers will be one of the favorites heading into the NBA’s restart bubble. Led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis, that’s hardly a surprise or a shocking statement. Nevertheless, they will need a third player to emerge if this team is going to win a championship in such unforeseen circumstances.

Looking on their roster, there’s one player that has the ability and potential to change the math for the Lakers. And that’s Kyle Kuzma. Even though he wasn’t having the best of seasons the last time we saw the Lakers, he will have an opportunity to turn his season around and to end it on a high note.

We know that Kuzma has the ability to do so too. We’ve seen him do it before and next to LeBron and AD, who is to say that he can’t replicate that same success. If the Lakers are going to win a championship this season, I have a feeling that Kuzma will play a big role in that.