12:12pm: The Lakers have officially requested waivers on Bogut, the team announced in a press release.
11:51am: The Lakers will release veteran big man Andrew Bogut, giving him a chance to latch on with a playoff contender for the rest of the season, tweets Shams Charania of The Vertical.
Los Angeles signed Bogut to a one-year, partially guaranteed deal in September to provide a veteran presence to a young Lakers team. Bogut’s deal would have become fully guaranteed on January 10 but teams can avoid that by waiving players on non-guaranteed deals by January 7, allowing them to clear waivers before the deadline.
The 33-year-old appeared in just 24 games (five starts) with the Lakers, averaging 1.5 PPG and 3.3 RPG. However, Bogut still provides defensive value and playoff experience as he was a member of the Warriors’ 2014/15 NBA championship-winning team.
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Back to Cleveland
Cavs?
So now we don’t have a true veteran presence:/ bogut actually talked to the guys about trade rumors and dealing with them. Deng and Lopez and brewer aren’t really presences even though they are veterans
Even though the three you just named are all leaps and bounds better than Bogut.
Deng and brewer suck. Deng is washed up and brewer just flat out sucks.
Celtics?
I think this makes the most sense
I can see the Spurs. Behind Pau they don’t have a center.
He’s too injury prone to be a backup center. He’s more for leadership and the spurs don’t really need any with pop around.
He’s too injury prone to be a backup, but they could use an extra big.
Oh please no.
Back to Milwaukee. They been looking for a big bodied defensive minded center since trading Monroe for Bledsoe. Good veteran presence and fan favorite when he was here. Pick him up off waiver at cheap salary.
I was thinking Spurs too, they could use the extra big.
I’d love to see him latch on with Boston or San Antonio
Retire.