On December 17, Beijing time, according to the latest news, Lakers defenders Russell Westbrook and Avery Bradley have triggered the alliance health and safety agreement. At the same time, according to ESPN reporter Dave McMenamin, sources revealed that Westbrook and Bradley did not board the Lakers' team charter flight from Dallas to Minneapolis today. Although Munch has the possibility of an emergency comeback, it must be admitted that the Lakers, who are currently in the Devils' schedule, have encountered the embarrassment of a lack of defenders.
Because of this, according to The Athletic reporter Shams Charania, multiple sources revealed that the Lakers will sign a short 10-day contract with guard Isaiah Thomas using the hardship exception. The former strongest 175 on the surface also played for a while with the Lakers, averaging 16.0 minutes per game, 7.7 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists. But in fact, since then, Thomas Jr. has gradually lost his previous ability due to injuries and age problems, and these years have gradually faded out of the NBA.
But Thomas Jr. has never given up hope of returning to the NBA, playing frequently in other low-level or amateur games and playing amazing statistics to impress an NBA team and throw him a rugby branch, and in these games, Thomas Jr. has been very good in three games this year.
In his recent development league debut, Thomas Jr. played for nuggets development league affiliates, with 42 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists. At the same time, in August, Thomas Jr. scored 81 and 65 points in amateur games, and even many NBA players could not help but tweet for him, and said that Thomas Jr. was fully capable of playing in the NBA. Perhaps it is also because Thomas Jr. has proved time and again that he can show overwhelming strength in amateur games, so he gradually impressed the Lakers and finally got a rare opportunity.
For this opportunity to return to the NBA, Thomas Jr. seemed very happy and excited. But whether he can really bring help to the Lakers, many people are still full of questions, after all, with the rise of age, the height disadvantage of Little Thomas will become more and more obvious, the Lakers do lack guards now, but is Thomas Jr. really useful? Especially before this, there should be better options on the market than Thomas Jr., such as James Ennis, who just signed with the Nets.
Like the Lakers, the Nets are now also short of major generals, so the Nets have been signing reinforcements lately, according to The Athletic reporter Shams Charania, according to sources, the Nets plan to use the difficult exception to sign free agent James Ennis. For this player, fans should not be unfamiliar, offseason, Ennis has always wanted to join the Lakers, although the Lakers have also been interested in him, but in the end did not choose to sign him, and now Ennis joined the Nets, so that the Nets will be very excited.
Griffin, who worked as a teammate with Ennis in the Pistons, said: "Ennis is a great player, he plays very hard and his defense is also excellent. He's very versatile, he can do almost everything on the pitch. He's strong, he plays hard, and he defends well. He's the kind of player who can do a little bit of anything. ”
As Griffin said, Ennis is a fairly well-rounded player, and compared to the guard, the Lakers actually need to strengthen the front line more now, which is one of the reasons why many fans question why the Lakers did not rob Ennis and sign Thomas Jr. The bigger possibility is that in the Lakers' view, whether it is Thomas Jr. or Ennis, it will not be in the team's long-term plan, to put it bluntly, it is a ten-day temporary worker, so of course the Lakers must sign a guard who needs more now, rather than the front line that is more needed throughout the season.