Lakers SIGN Former No. 1 Pick DeAndre Ayton!

Lakers SIGN Former No. 1 Pick DeAndre Ayton!

The Lakers have a center. DeAndre Aton agrees to a 2-year $16.6 uh million contract. Not unexpected, but at least in my mind, Andy, still a pretty BFD for the Lakers to land DeAndre Aiden for a variety of reasons. Yeah, this was huge in terms of the Lakers looking to find a center through free agency. We’ve talked about this before. They were very limited in terms of their resources to do really anything much less find a center through free agency. They were dealing purely with exceptions, vet minimums, that sort of thing. And it felt like until DeAndre Aton became a very surprised candidate through this buyout with the Blazers that if the Lakers were going to find a definitively starting caliber center for this season, it was going to have to be through trade because the the options were so few for the Lakers to begin with with guys who you could even just plausibly talk yourself into as a starter. much less the guys that you know are at that caliber. DeAndre Aton has had his detractors. Whether you’re talking about media, whether you’re talking about the teams that have employed him, I think it is safe to say that he has not lived up to the the billing and the hype since getting drafted number one overall, ironically, ahead of new teammate Luca Donuch. But it doesn’t change the fact that he is definitely a starting caliber center in the league. And whatever questions exist about motor, true desire, true passion for basketball, when you are putting up 14 and 10 with three of those rebounds on the offensive glass, a block a game, and some of the other numbers we’ll get into, you clearly are doing something productive because you don’t just fall into that stuff.

DeAndre Ayton was a HUGE signing for the Lakers! Andy Kamenetzky explain why the former No. 1 pick is clearly still a starting caliber center in the NBA.

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