The Lakers are one of the hottest teams in the NBA, and Dončić is still acclimating. How far can they go with a small-ball approach?

It's strange having the NBA trade deadline so close to the All-Star break. The mid-season break provides a natural checkpoint to take stock of where every team sits, and yet -- especially given the monumental activity around this year's deadline in both quantity and quality of players -- a lot of teams will look vastly different over the final two months of the season.