Los Angeles Lakers icon Shaquille O'Neal has come out with his own proposal on how to fix LA's roster for the 2022-23 campaign. According to Shaq, it would be in the team's best interest to keep their core intact. O'Neal, however, believes that the other older players on the squad have to go.

In his mind, the four-time NBA champ has no doubt that age will be a key factor in how LeBron James and the Lakers should fare next season:

“I think they definitely have to get younger,” O'Neal told Rory Carroll of Reuters.

“So if they can keep LeBron, Russell and AD, everyone else needs to be very young. You can't have five or six guys in their upper 30s because the league is getting younger and faster.

“To have, as Chuck (Charles Barkley) says, old geezers running up against these young boys, it's not going to work over an 82-game stretch.”

Surprisingly, Shaq believes that the Lakers ought to keep Russell Westbrook. That's not exactly a very popular opinion right now but I guess O'Neal understands that parting ways with Russ is going to be extremely difficult for LA.

Unfortunately, the likes of Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard have no room in Shaq's iteration of the 2022-23 Lakers.