Dennis Schroder will ‘fully integrate himself’ with Lakers on Monday

The Los Angeles Lakers may not be championship contenders, but there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful about them this season based on what has transpired in the preseason so far.

However, one key member of the team, Dennis Schroder, hasn’t gotten on the court yet due to visa issues after participating in EuroBasket 2022 in his native Germany.

But Schroder has arrived in the States, and he has begun the process of getting fully assimilated into the swing of things with the Lakers.

They signed him to a veteran minimum contract a few weeks ago, presumably to give themselves a true distributing, table-setting guard other than Russell Westbrook.

If all goes according to plan, Schroder could play in L.A.’s final two exhibition contests this week.

The team has a logjam of small guards between him, Westbrook, Kendrick Nunn and Patrick Beverley, and it will be interesting to see how it finds playing time for the German native.

If nothing else, he will give it a solid contingency plan should Westbrook get traded at some point in the coming weeks or months.

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