LOS ANGELES_They have size and the Los Angeles Lakers are using every bit of it in the starting lineup.
For the second consecutive game, the Lakers started 6-foot-6 Lonzo Ball and 6-9 Brandon Ingram in the backcourt, 6-8 LeBron James and 6-9 Kyle Kuzma at forwards and 7-0 JaVale McGee at center.
"We have great length," James said after Wednesday night's game against Dallas. "We have great rebounders. We have unselfish players. Our whole team is unselfish so I don't want to say it like that. But we have great length and we figure out a way just to kind of complement each other out on the floor."
The Lakers made the change to go big when Ingram returned at Minnesota on Monday after he had served his four-game suspension for throwing punches at Houston's Chris Paul.
Kuzma had started at forward in Ingram's absence while 6-5 Josh Hart started at shooting guard in place of 6-5 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
But Lakers coach Luke Walton wanted his best group on the floor to start the game and felt it was best to use Ingram as the shooting guard.
"I got the suspension and we had guys fill in that was doing really, really good and Kuzma was doing really, really good in his role and coach decided to stick with him," Ingram said late Wednesday night. "So I just tried to come in _ it's kind of like position-less basketball. I think I'm actually at the two (shooting guard), but I just try to come in and try to play wherever the coach wants me."
