Lakers guard Lonzo Ball is focused on gaining strength and stamina to become less injury-prone next season, teammate Kyle Kuzma told ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk and other media members on Tuesday. Ball played in only 52 games during his rookie campaign due to a variety of ailments.
“He has been in there pretty much every day I have been in here around this time,” Kuzma said of Ball’s weight training. “You can tell he is taking the weight room a lot more serious and that is going to help him by allowing him to recover faster and hopefully next year be on the court more because of that weight room.”
In other news regarding the Lakers:
- West Virginia guard Jevon Carter is among six prospects the Lakers will work out on Wednesday, the team announced on its website. Carter is ranked No. 44 on ESPN Jonathan Givony’s Top 100 list. Kostas Antetokounmpo (Dayton), Elijah Bryant (BYU), Trey Kell (San Diego State) and Omari Spellman (Villanova) will join Carter. Gary Trent Jr. of Duke will also be there, as previously reported.
- The Spurs are a logical candidate to pursue free agent shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Frank Urbina of Hoops Hype speculates. San Antonio could lose Danny Green if he opts out of his contract. Caldwell-Pope could replace him and the Spurs have their mid-level exception to offer him, Urbina continues. The Clippers and Grizzlies may also be in the market for a starting shooting guard, though it’s possible KCP could get another one-year offer from the Lakers if they don’t land two top-level free agents, Urbina adds.
- Kuzma was named to the league’s All-Rookie First Team while Ball earned Second Team honors. You can see the All-Rookie teams here.
Use KCP as a S&T trade for Kawhi then!
More like KCP, their first pick plus Randle and San Antonio might start to listen?
Lol not even
Forget Randle. Trade Ingram.
Kawhi is going to sign the Super Max. Reports have already been surfacing that both sides want to resolve the issues, and get this extension signed.
Like forgetting Randle & trading Ingram… so what are the Lakers going then, tanking for years or what, they are part of the young core of the future, the team needs to grow with them, cannot believe anyone would do that, & to get what? I would be very disappointed with the Lakers if they do that.
I’m saying Ingram or Kawhi! I’ll take Kawhi Anytime over Ingram! Ingram will never be a top 5 player!!!
Randle is such a beast.