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 (Fonte BR)

The Los Angeles Lakers are NBA royalty.

Maybe that was always destined to happen when they picked up LeBron James, crowned basketball's king long before his hike to Hollywood, or when they doubled their superstar count with Anthony Davis.

But they still had to endure the longest marathon in league history to finally wrap their fingers around the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy.

While the Lakers have some interesting calls to make this offseason—or they might, depending on how Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Avery Bradley and Rajon Rondo handle their player options—the bigger challenge is for the rest of the league to catch up to the champs.

That'll be no small task with L.A. rostering a dynamic duo for the ages, but the following superstar swaps can help narrow the gap.