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LA were knocking on the door of missing the playoffs for a second straight year after a horrendous start in which they lost five straight a 10 of their first 12 to start the season. The combo of LeBron, AD and Westbrook wasn’t working, and on top of that the Lakers were the worst shooting team from the perimeter in the league. A midseason make over changed the course of the Lakers campaign, as they ditched some dead weight including Russell Westbrook, and brought in fresh faces like Jared Vanderbilt, Tony Brown Jr., D’Angelo Russell and Malik Beasley. They lost just seven games after the All-Star Break and had the best record to end the season of any team in the league after a run to end the season that saw them win 9 of their last 11. That didn’t spare them from the Play-In Tournament, but they survived a scare from the Timberwolves at home to lock up the seven seed in the West.