Los Angeles Lakers: 3 storylines to watch heading into 2021-22

Can Anthony Davis stay healthy all year long?

This is perhaps the biggest “what if” for the Lakers heading into this season. If Anthony Davis can’t remain healthy all season long, this team really doesn’t have a chance to make a deep run in the postseason. If he can stay healthy, the sky is the limit for this team.

But this will be a storyline that will follow the Lakers all the way through the playoffs. Even if Davis does get through the season relatively healthy, everyone knows that at any given moment the Lakers season could all crumble with just one sprained ankle or wrong landing.

Then again, which team’s season wouldn’t with such an injury to a key player. What I’m trying to relay here is that Davis is the most important Laker on the roster heading into this season. That is not up for debate.