The Los Angeles Lakers might be attempting to amass an previous thorn of their facet.
Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints reports this week that the Lakers had been one staff to point out curiosity in buying Toronto Raptors swingman Bruce Brown final season. Siegel additional provides that the Lakers keep curiosity within the 27-year-old Brown this offseason.
Brown is a probable commerce chip for the rebuilding Raptors, who picked up his $23 million staff choice for subsequent season however with an eye fixed on shifting Brown as a big expiring contract. He averaged 10.8 factors, 4.2 rebounds and a couple of.9 assists per recreation total final yr and is thought for his positional versatility, three-and-D chops and skill to crash the glass regardless of being simply 6-foot-4.
The Lakers are very conversant in Brown’s recreation as he was a member of the 2023 Denver Nuggets staff that went on to win the NBA championship. That yr, the Nuggets swept the Lakers within the Western Convention finals, and Brown took some savage shots at Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell throughout the sequence. Though Russell himself might need to be included in a commerce for Brown as an expiring $18.7 million contract of his personal, it seems that the Lakers keep a robust curiosity in including Brown to the puzzle regardless.