According to multiple reports, the Los Angeles Lakers met with free agent forward Jonathan ***** inga last Tuesday when NBA free agency officially opened and are still trying to land him. Khobi Price of the California Post reported that the Atlanta Hawks, the team ***** inga finished this past season with, are willing to do a sign-and-trade with Los Angeles to give it the 23-year-old.
But trades are never easy to consummate in the NBA, and the Lakers do have a big hole in terms of a starting two-way forward who is athletic. If they strike out on ***** inga, they need to have other options, and Price listed some potential ones, although it is unknown how realistic they are for the team.
Most of them are underwhelming, but the pickings are slim right now, especially given the ultra-restrictive qualities of the league's current collective bargaining agreement and salary cap.
"Ziaire Williams, who's coming off a career-year with the [Brooklyn] Nets, is a player the Lakers eyed after the Nets declined Williams' $6.3 million team option to make him an unrestricted free agent," Price wrote.
"Bruce Brown, Matisse Thybulle and Ochai Agbaji are other unrestricted free agents still available."
But trades are never easy to consummate in the NBA, and the Lakers do have a big hole in terms of a starting two-way forward who is athletic. If they strike out on ***** inga, they need to have other options, and Price listed some potential ones, although it is unknown how realistic they are for the team.
Most of them are underwhelming, but the pickings are slim right now, especially given the ultra-restrictive qualities of the league's current collective bargaining agreement and salary cap.
"Ziaire Williams, who's coming off a career-year with the [Brooklyn] Nets, is a player the Lakers eyed after the Nets declined Williams' $6.3 million team option to make him an unrestricted free agent," Price wrote.
"Bruce Brown, Matisse Thybulle and Ochai Agbaji are other unrestricted free agents still available."
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