Dunno if it was mentioned in the last couple pages, but as far as LO's decline I remember reading that he was already in a bad place that offseason before he got traded. If you'll recall, he was in NY for his cousins funeral and while there his driver struck a kid and he ended up dying. Apparently all of that was very hard for him to handle and he was coping with drugs.
I think it might have even been on here somebody said Lamar's assistant (can't remember the guys name, but it's the one that gets him the candy
) had been buying oxy off of one of his friends heavily and that LO was pretty bad off at the time. So yea, I doubt he would have resembled himself that year even if he'd stayed a Laker.
