It will shock you what Pat Riley just said about LeBron & the team this season

The Los Angeles Lakers have been struggling this season and currently sit on a 23-26 record, but they have been close to turning around things, even when they missed a big chunk of the campaign with their best player Anthony Davis due to a right foot stress injury.

Now that the front office is making trades, Davis is back, Lonnie is also returning, and the only player left to recover fully is Austin Reaves, the Lakers could have a shot this campaign; at least that's what the legendary former Lakers head coach Pat Riley thinks.

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Even former Lakers coach and LeBron James whisperer Pat Riley believe the team has an outside shot, thanks mainly to his former Miami Heat superstar. In a recent interview with ESPN's Ramona Shelburne centered around Riley's perspective on King James compared to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Hall of Famer dropped a line most Lakers fans would love to hear on repeat: "I think they got a shot."

Riley thinks LeBron can lead the team again

"That's where LeBron is,'" Riley said of the Lakers star. "I'm not speaking to anything he might say in the media, but that's his only reason to continue playing. Breaking the scoring record will be big for him if it happens, and it will happen. But he wants to win titles; that's what drives him. And so for him to continue to play at this level, with that hope that this team will come together out there and Anthony Davis gets back, I think they got a shot. I do. And I believe he believes that too.'"