Brandon Ingram clears his mind and the Lakers benefit

LOS ANGELES — The burden of expectation has never drifted far from Brandon Ingram. Even Lonzo Ball has been presented as a complement to Ingram’s eventual stardom, rather than a standalone replacement.
Imagine Ingram’s mind as a blizzard of prognostications: emerge as a go-to scorer, take big strides defensively, show flashes of an All-Star in the making.
On Tuesday, perhaps for the first time this season, Brandon Ingram accomplished all of those things in one game. All he had