10 Big Expectations for the Los Angeles Lakers This Season

Because of their winning tradition, expectations for the Los Angeles Lakers have always been enormous, almost to an overwhelming extent.

Even after a brutal sweep at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks, a coaching change, a lockout, the Chris Paul trade that almost happened, the loss of Lamar Odom and other significant events that have changed the franchise's image, one constant still remains for the 2011-12 Lakers team: big expectations.

Here, I have compiled a list of 10 of them. 

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