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Pre-Season Poll #3 - The Finals Insult

OK, so maybe not an "insult"

but this is the "final" Pre-season poll for the 20-21 season. It's a bit of a gimme, but I asked it last year and decided to make this my final poll question every season moving forward.

Pretty easy: How will the Lakers do this year? For those who feel so inclined: Who will they face and how in many games? (post in comments below)

1) NBA Champion - a fully reloaded Lakers' squad is focused on defending their crown and taking their place in NBA history. Agent-to-GM becomes the new career path.

2) Western Conference Champion - Lakers roll through the West before getting upended by an EC Champ with a massive chip on their shoulder.

3) Conference Semi-Final Winner - the short layoff catches up to some of the Lakers' key veterans players and they run out of gas in the Western Conference Finals.

4) Divisional Round Winner - Lakers get a bad second round matchup and somebody gets hot

5) Top-8 seed - Cinderella story. Out of nowhere, former bottom seed, now about to knock out the NBA Champs in the first round....at Staples. OH! It's in the bucket!!!

6) Bottom-8 seed - don't want to jinx anything, so we'll just call it the unthinkable happens and the Lakers figure, "well, we might as well activate Luol Deng (what?)".