The Lakers have reunited with another old friend, having claimed guard Avery Bradley off waivers, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). Bradley was released by the Warriors on Saturday.
Bradley was part of the Lakers’ championship team in 2019/20, averaging 8.6 PPG and 2.3 RPG on .444/.364/.833 shooting in 49 games (24.2 MPG) for the club. He signed with the Heat last offseason, then was traded to Houston at the March trade deadline. The Rockets turned down Bradley’s team option for 2021/22 and he subsequently joined the Warriors for training camp.
Bradley failed to earn the 15th spot on Golden State’s regular season roster, but will become the latest veteran to rejoin the Lakers after spending time away from the team. Dwight Howard, Rajon Rondo, Trevor Ariza, Wayne Ellington, and Kent Bazemore are among the others who fit that bill. Howard and Rondo, like Bradley, were members of the 2020 championship team.
The Lakers, who signed Jay Huff to a two-way contract earlier today, now have a full 17-man roster for the regular season. However, Bradley’s deal is non-guaranteed and Austin Reaves only has a small partial guarantee, so the team has the flexibility to make some changes in the coming days, weeks, or months, if necessary.
They’ll probably keep him around until both THT and Ellington are ready to play.
Helps replace some of the lost defense at guard until THT comes back, although they have a lot of guards, and Rondo can do some of that in the PG spot in the matchups he is needed in…they desperately need wing help way more, and there are still a couple of guys available there, like Wesley Matthews
Bradley can guard wings…and provides instant on ball defense …a true replacement for Caruso.
A cheaper Caruso anyway.
Most teams treasure youth, not age!
Championship teams don’t treasure youth.
Reminds me of his performance vs the clippers in the earlier part of 2019-2020 season
Lakers are pathetic lmao taking any scrap they can find
Like they did in the championship season 2020.
Exactly. Scrap to win. I’ll take it too.