Lakers entrance workplace staffers have reportedly been working the telephones to enhance their group forward of the commerce deadline, and up to now their most talked about potential commerce targets have been Dejounte Murray and Zach LaVine.
However now, an NBA insider has urged the group to look in a totally totally different course.
“If I’m Rob Pelinka, although, there’s not a retailer with 30 guys out there. But it surely’s not simply LaVine or Dejounte Murray,” ESPN’s Tim MacMahon mentioned on Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective this week.
“I’m calling Charlotte, I’m inquiring about Terry Rozier, I’m at the least checking to see if he could be out there at a considerably decrease value. As a result of I feel that that’s a man who would provide you with quite a lot of the stuff you want and wouldn’t value you as a lot. It’s not the large splash, though he’s averaging 23 factors per recreation. Simply no one is aware of that as a result of the Hornets are so [bad].”
McMahon is true that Rozier may be very a lot flying underneath the radar in Charlotte. That’s regardless of his averages of 24 factors and 6.8 assists per recreation each being career-highs.
Rozier will surely add some much-needed taking pictures to the Lakers. His 37 per cent three-point taking pictures this season is greater than all however three Lakers gamers, and that’s regardless of trying 7.8 threes per recreation.
Rozier can also be averaging 8.5 factors per recreation within the fourth quarter, the second-most within the NBA behind Giannis Antetokounmpo.
The Hornets guard is within the second yr of a four-year, $96 million contract. He’s owed $23.2 million this season, which might make him cheaper than LaVine (40.1 million) however dearer than Murray (18.2 million).
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