And if Russell Westbrook stayed a little longer with the Lakers ? In any case, this is what was implied The Athleticwhich specifies that the Californian leaders would rather gauge the interest of the other franchises for Patrick Beverly and Kendrick Nunn.
Not necessarily surprising, when you know that, despite the various rumors that have surrounded him for many weeks, the 2017 MVP has recovered from the bench: 16.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 7.9 assists on average. Unlike the Beverley-Nunn pair, which has been particularly disappointing so far.
Thus, even if the name of Russell Westbrook is still at the negotiating table, Patrick Beverley (4.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists on average, 27% in shots and 24% in 3-pts…) but also Kendrick Nunn ( 5.9 points on average, 37% on shots and 30% at 3-pts…) would no longer be in the odor of sanctity, on the side of Los Angeles.
A decisive “road-trip”?
The Lakers could therefore take the opportunity to transfer their two “pretty” contracts in the coming weeks. By including, why not, a Draft choice in the batch, in order to recover in return an interesting rotation player, from the hands of a team in reconstruction and eager not to be too burdened financially.
As for Russell Westbrook, it is not excluded that he remains the sixth man of LA until the end of this exercise.
Let’s also remember that the Lakers have just separated from Matt Ryan, and that we are approaching December 15, namely the date from which the free agents signed or re-signed this summer can be traded, and things may well pick up speed then. Even though The Athletic adds that the leaders of Los Angeles would still like to allow time before turning everything upside down, judging that their franchise had not been able to prove itself enough, due to injuries.
“Wait and see”, therefore. However, the “Purple & Gold” are certainly likely to be among the most active teams on the transfer market and there is no doubt that their next road trip in the East (Milwaukee, Washington, Cleveland, Toronto, Philadelphia and Detroit) will end up convincing Rob Pelinka and others to take action…
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Anthony Davis | 17 | 34.5 | 57.1 | 21.1 | 81.5 | 3.4 | 9.4 | 12.8 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 26.2 |
| lebron james | 13 | 35.5 | 45.5 | 28.9 | 73.8 | 1.5 | 7.3 | 8.8 | 6.2 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 25.4 |
| lonnie walker | 17 | 31.5 | 47.7 | 36.3 | 84.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 16.6 |
| Russell Westbrook | 18 | 28.2 | 40.6 | 31.6 | 72.6 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 7.3 | 3.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 15.3 |
| Austin Reaves | 19 | 28.5 | 52.6 | 39.6 | 93.1 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 10.3 |
| Dennis Schroder | 6 | 24.6 | 39.0 | 33.3 | 94.1 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 8.8 |
| Thomas Bryant | 5 | 13.7 | 77.3 | 0.0 | 61.5 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 8.4 |
| Troy Brown, Jr. | 17 | 26.2 | 43.7 | 32.7 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 7.8 |
| Kendrick Nunn | 17 | 13.9 | 36.5 | 30.2 | 88.9 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 5.9 |
| Wenyen Gabriel | 17 | 14.0 | 60.0 | 27.3 | 80.0 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
| matt ryan | 11 | 11.6 | 31.3 | 38.2 | 80.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 4.3 |
| Patrick Beverly | 14 | 27.4 | 26.6 | 23.8 | 82.4 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
| Max Christie | 9 | 10.4 | 47.1 | 54.5 | 75.0 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.8 |
| Damian Jones | 10 | 8.0 | 47.6 | 0.0 | 70.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 2.7 |
| Juan Toscano Anderson | 11 | 11.3 | 40.0 | 18.2 | 80.0 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Scotty Pippen, Jr. | 2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| cole swider | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
