The 2019-20 NBA season is almost upon us, but Hot Take SZN is here, and at the end of another eventful summer we will see how close to the sun we can fly and still stand the swelter of these viewpoints. We began this series last summer by considering that the Los Angeles Lakers would not make the playoffs, and almost every single one of their red flags — a hapless supporting cast chief among them — materialized in a dumpster fire of a season. The trade for Anthony Davis certainly addressed the most pressing concern in L.A., providing LeBron James with a co-star and forming one of the great tandems in NBA history, at least on paper.