The Los Angeles Lakers will be one of the most watched teams in the NBA next season largely thanks to Lonzo Ball.

If the Summer League is anything to go by, the Staples Center should be a sell out every night and we can expect to see the Purple and Gold appear in more nationally televised games.

The Lakers attracted huge crowds in Las Vegas with fans clamouring to see Ball in action.

The anticipation and hype surrounding the talented point guard have been huge as fans yearn for another superstar in L.A.

As well as Lonzo, however, the Lakers showed that they have a number of talented youngsters as they won the Summer League even with the number two draft pick missing the final.

Kyle Kuzma caught the eye with some impressive displays and last year's number two pick Brandon Ingram showed some development before injury curtailed his participation in Vegas.

The franchise has also added pieces such as Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Brook Lopez during the offseason but with a largely young core, they have a bright future ahead of them.

Under the guidance of head coach Luke Walton, the Lakers should play an attractive and fun brand of basketball in the mould of the Golden State Warriors.

Since Hall of Famer Magic Johnson came in as president of basketball operations and Rob Pelinka was named as general manager, they've made some shrewd dealings to put a competitive roster in place.

In a stacked Western Conference, there's no telling what the Lakers can achieve next season, but Pelinka offered a strange comparison of where the team is currently at.

"It’s kind of like if you go on YouTube and you think about Taylor Swift when she was 16 years old maybe putting her first song," he said speaking on the Dan Patrick Show.

"It’s her guitar, it’s her, it’s in a little studio, and you watch it and you listen to it and you say ‘Wow, this is going to be a special thing to follow and a really cool narrative to unfold.’

"I have that sense about the Lakers, the way we’re playing in summer league we have this young core of Lonzo Ball, [Kyle] Kuzma, [Josh] Hart and it’s a pass-first system that Luke Walton has designed.

"I think in an era of guard-play where it’s score, if you look at the great point guards it’s score-score-score, I think we’re switching now into a mode of pass-pass-pass."

It's a very interesting way to describe the organisation's process but it's definitely not a crazy one.

After years of mediocrity and losing, the Lakers are finally headed in the right direction and in Ball, they have a future star that can put one of the league's biggest franchises back on the map.