2023-06-30 23:32:00
While the Woj and Shams are playing who is going to release the most news per minute, we are in charge of communicating them to you. Among our friends the Lakers, it is Taurean Prince who joins the ship. Author of a good season with the Wolves, the T will receive 4.5 million dollars over one year of contract. It might have been longer and/or more expensive elsewhere, but what wouldn’t we do to play with LeBron?
The Lakers already had the King, now they have his pretender to the throne… Taurean Prince. It was easy, we grant you that. Precious off the bench on the Minneapolis side, Taurean is going to fill the Lakers roster. All puns aside, LeBron James is undoubtedly reassured to see arriving in his team a player capable of ensuring without making too many waves. For this news, Monsieur Charania took charge of the exclusive, while his counterpart Wojnarowski shared the taro with us.
Free agent forward Taurean Prince is finalizing a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 30, 2023
Free agent F Taurean Prince has agreed to a 1-year, $4.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agents Steven Heumann and Richie Beda of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2023
Drafted in 2016, Taurean has been around a lot since then. From Atlanta to Brooklyn, via Cleveland and therefore Minnesota, the winger has always been around ten points between 35 and 40% at 3-point range. In short, exactly what is expected of a rotational player in the modern NBA, at least from an offensive point of view. Alongside a Jarred Vanderbilt, the only player in the Lakers rotation this season still present in the roster, the offensive contribution of the LU biscuit will not be too much.
In the front office of the Angelinos, we must be very happy to see the addition of a veteran to the workforce, which we know what he can bring, at less than 5 million per season. Apart from LeBron and Anthony Davis, only Max Christie and Jarred Vanderbilt were under contract before the opening of this free agency. Not fun, especially when AD and LBJ are already taking the franchise’s salary cap hostage. Here is a first stone, at a lower cost, while waiting to see how the rest of the kingdom is built in the City of Angels.
Sources : ESPN, The Athletic
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