ATLANTA — For NBA teams, the first lengthy road trip of the season, like the five-game trip the Lakers will kick off on Saturday against the Atlanta Hawks, offers an abundance of opportunities for team-bonding experiences.

Team dinners. Player-organized outings and activities. Conversations on the long flights as they trek around the country from city to city, typically playing a game every other night.

But Coach JJ Redick implemented a Japanese-inspired storytelling presentation throughout the preseason and has continued it into the season to help with team bonding: PechaKucha .

Typically in PechaKucha , with the origins of the name being tied into the Japanese term for “chit-chat,” the presenter will show 20 slides (20 seconds per slide) with the purpose of telling the story on the

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