On December 21, Beijing time, the Lakers signed two more players, one is a lakers veteran, one is Harden's former teammate, according to the famous Shams Charania report, sources revealed that the Lakers will take advantage of the difficulty exception and currently play in the development league forward Gemellio Jones signed a 10-day short contract.
Jones played in 6 games for the Lakers in 2018-19 (starting 2 games), averaging 4.5 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 0.8 blocks in 23.8 minutes per game; the 26-year-old Jones returned to the Lakers, like Thomas Jr., also returned to the NBA from the development league with a ten-day short contract.
According to Bill Oram, Jones became the 174th former Lakers player to join the Lakers; the current Lakers lineup of Ariza, Howard, Rondo, Thomas Jr., Ellington and others are the Lakers' veteran return to the Lakers.
In the 2021-2022 season, Jones played for the G League for Wisconsin, playing in 11 games, averaging 6.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game.
According to Mingji, the Lakers will sign a two-way contract with Lakers guard Mason Jones, who plays for their development league team South Bay, which means that the Lakers will lay off Khufu or Brown, and a team can only use two two-way contract players.
So far this season, Jones has played in 12 games for the South Bay Lakers in the Development League, averaging 17.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 7.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game, shooting 41.2% from three-point range.
He has played 32 NBA regular season games so far, played for the Rockets and the 76ers, averaged 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 10 minutes per game, Mason Jones was a former Harden teammate, and he will join James in the NBA.
The last time the Lakers lost to the Chicago Bulls and the season was swept away, ranking seventh in the West with only 16 wins and 15 losses this season; there are currently 6 players in the Lakers who triggered the epidemic prevention agreement - Tucker, Bradley, Munch, Howard, Reeves and Bazemore, according to the new rules of the league, the Lakers can sign multiple substitutes to supplement the lineup, and the biggest purpose of the NBA is to avoid a shutdown.