With a healthy James+ad, the Lakers have the ability to beat any team, as they proved in the 2020 playoffs.
But ability is not to say that there is certainty, this year there are strong teams such as the Clippers, Jazz, and Suns in the West, and the Bucks, Nets, and 76ers in the East, it is difficult to imagine that the Lakers can successfully complete the promotion and win the championship in the final kill in the East.
What the team needs is to get back to health and improve itself step by step, and recently the team sent another message that they are interested in 40-year-old veteran Joe Johnson and may hire him to the team's bench.
From the beginning of the season to the present, the Lakers have been upgrading and strengthening their lineup, starting with the acquisition of Schroeder, Harrell, and recently winning Zhuang Shen, the team's lineup is becoming more and more "mature", many fans are worried that the team has recently lost, in fact, this is superfluous, after the return of the two cores, we can really test the strength of this lineup.
Now the Lakers have the idea of signing Joe Johnson, and at the same time have the will for him: Bucks, Clippers, Jazz, Nets
In other words, the Lakers have to compete with these championship teams, and if they fail to win him, it means that the strength of the opposing team increases by one point.
Johnson hasn't played in the NBA since the 2017-18 season, when he scored 6.8 points per game with a 40 percent shooting percentage. His recent 11+9+6.5 stats in the U.S. team's game have attracted the attention of many championship-winning teams, who are eager to recruit such an experienced veteran to their bench at the last minute.