The problem with the Lakers is that Lebron and AD act like their team isn't good enough to win, so how could they ever believe they are good enough as a team. And then the culture is such that management doesn't really care if they are good enough or if their best players think they are good enough. They just want to ride it out selling tickets til they make their next plan which could very well be complete bust all over again. Half the formula for winning a championship is believing you can and nobody on the lakers I don’t think believes they can so trading for kyrie could have made believers of them. Lakers were laughing stock of NBA drafting dud after dud after dud with 3 #2 picks, could barely win 25 games/year then Lebron comes rescues the franchise gets them AD they win a championship and now their attitude is like they can't wait for lebron to exit before selling tickets.
The Lakers are not investing in Lebron and think they are a beacon of an organization and are too proud to admit that they were really floundering without him and they drafted 3 complete duds with 3 #2 picks in russel lonzo and Ingraham. Lebron is putting it all out at 38 and can compete now with a short window, I see it as thankless that he won them a championship when really they had no direction going before he got there and were still recovering from investing in Kobe when he was visibly done after achilles.
I don't know much about basketball but it seems like the lakers need a playmaker and shooter from the gaurd position so they can stretch the floor and keep defense honest. Kyrie is one of the best in the nba. Unless you are getting Ja Morant or Lillard or Lavine i guess they are saying now i don't really understand passing on Kyrie to hang onto Christie and Reeves. They are good players, but the coach barely plays them down the stretch at least christie and I just don't see a belief in the team surrounding reeves and other players besides Lebron and AD. Lebron and AD command the offense and neither is a great shooter so you'd think the third guy would be a shooter. Lebron supposedly wanted westbrook and management seems to want to make him die by that sword as punishment when it clearly doesn't work.