On March 30, Beijing time, the Lakers lost to the Lone Rangers in the regular season at 110:128, and the Lakers have officially fallen out of the ranks of play-off teams. At the same time, NBA celebrity Chris Haynes also reported that according to the MRI inspection conducted this week, Lakers player Nunn is expected to be unable to return to the court this season, as the Lakers management signed the introduction of strength players last summer, Nunn has not played 1 NBA regular season game this season, and now Chris Haynes's revelations have officially announced Nunn's season reimbursement.
While playing for the Heat last season, Nunn averaged 14.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game in the regular season and 38 percent of his regular-season three-point shooting. Therefore, when The Nunn contract expires and enters the free market, the Lakers management also takes the initiative to send a 2-year, $10 million player contract. However, I did not think that the Lakers' contract turned out to be Nunn's injury benefit contract, and Nunn, who occupied the Lakers' $5 million salary this season, did not play a role in the team lineup at all.
It is worth mentioning that due to the 2-year player contract given by the Lakers, and Nunn has the player option for the 22-23 season, considering that this season has not played, it is not surprising that Nunn will most likely choose to execute the player contract option for next season this summer. After all, after encountering such a serious injury problem, even if Nunn can successfully return to the court next season, his competitive state will obviously be affected, so taking the Lakers' 5 million annual salary contract to slowly find competitive status is undoubtedly the safest and most stable operation.
However, there is a saying that the Lakers have fallen to this step, and Nunn's season reimbursement will definitely not be the main reason, after all, Nunn is only a role player. Compared with the contract salary of 5 million US dollars of Nunn, Westbrook, thick eyebrows, James's big three are the players who can really affect the decision of the Lakers' win or loss, which has only played 37 regular season games this season so far, and Wei Shao has never been able to smoothly integrate into the team, as for James, although the offensive end is taken, but the problem of the helpless defensive end is also not to be ignored, and this series of problems is ultimately leading to the Lakers may be difficult to break into this year's Western Playoffs!