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The Los Angeles Lakers are understanding free-agent facilities Tristan Thompson and Tony Bradley this week, in response to The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Jovan Buha. The Lakers are presently skinny within the entrance courtroom because of the absences of LeBron James and commerce deadline acquisition Mo Bamba, leaving them with simply Anthony Davis, Wenyen Gabriel and Jarred Vanderbilt as viable facilities in the meanwhile.
This got here again to the chew the Lakers on Wednesday, in an upset loss to the Houston Rockets. Davis sat out the second night time of a back-to-back in that one, and it pressured the Lakers to double-team Rockets heart Alperen Sengun continuously. The outcome was open pictures for nearly everyone else. The Lakers desperately want one other physique to keep away from that actual state of affairs. They solely have yet another back-to-back this season, and it comes on April 4 and 5 in opposition to the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers.
Thompson hasn’t performed this season. He closed final season as a member of the Chicago Bulls, however has been working as a tv analyst for ESPN to date this season. His efficiency has declined lately, and he performed for 3 completely different groups final season. However, he’s solely 32, and he performed with LeBron James for 4 seasons in Cleveland, so the Lakers ought to have a good suggestion of what to anticipate out of him.
Bradley performed solely 12 video games as a member of the Bulls this season, and he not often noticed the ground throughout these minutes. His enjoying time has been restricted usually over the previous few years, and he is by no means performed greater than 18 minutes per sport. Of course, the Lakers aren’t searching for rather more than that. Bradley’s 7-5 wingspan makes him an imposing rim-protector.
Ideally, the Lakers will get wholesome rapidly sufficient to not want any extra dimension for the stretch run. The actuality of their roster in the meanwhile is that they’re skinny and just one damage away from determined. Don’t anticipate both participant to earn many minutes in the event that they grow to be Lakers, however Darvin Ham wants not less than yet another physique at his disposal for the ultimate three weeks of the season.
