The Los Angeles Lakers expect to keep the second overall pick, but their rebuilding project will likely involve pursuing free agents this summer and next.
"We don’t have …. the time to methodically and slowly build through the draft," said Mitch Kupchak.
The Lakers almost certainly won't have their own first round pick in 2016, though this year they have their own pick at No. 2 and the Houston Rockets' pick at No. 27.
The Lakers have missed out on the playoffs in 2014 and 2015.