Lakers guard Kendrick Nunn says it’s a “no-brainer” that he’ll opt in to the final year of his contract, Bill Oram of The Athletic tweets.
Nunn has a $5.25MM player option for 2022/23. He signed a two-year contract as a free agent last summer but didn’t appear in any games this season, mainly due to a knee injury.
Nunn deemed his right knee bone bruise “extremely frustrating” and didn’t anticipate he would need a full season to recover, Kyle Goon of the Orange County Register tweets. He says he’s feeling much better and expects to be completely healthy for training camp.
Nunn was a productive rotation player for Miami the last two seasons. A year ago, he averaged 14.6 PPG, 3.2 RPG and 2.6 APG in 29.5 MPG in 56 regular season games.
Nunn is just one of five Lakers players with a guaranteed contract for next season. Along with the Big Three of LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook, Talen Horton-Tucker is the only other player who isn’t a free agent this summer or will have to sweat a team option. Westbrook holds an option of $47MM on his contract which he’ll undoubtedly exercise.
What might have been. Instead Lebron watches the playoffs on TV again. Lol.
He didn’t want to try for the play in tournament for the playoffs. He gave up mid season. Quit on defense. He knows he can’t do it himself ( never has). Why put milage on when you can pad your stats safer next season. Try to never look bad in any situation. Playing it safe whole career (dunk contest). Cant get shown up. Safest career. Needs help everywhere he goes. Everyone helps him and his ego. Couldn’t last mentally in the 90s. Lebron is #5 all time. Can be #3 maybe.
Geez, if your that rough on #5 All time Id hate to hear your thoughts on the other 14,387 players that have played in that time span
It’s MJ or bust huh?
Luke 207. You know nothing of basketball, you just have that oh too common insecure hatred for LeBron James that you and so many others spew on these internet sites in the safety of your anonymity. If LeBron didn’t exist you, and others like you, would find some other successful talented person to berate so you can feel better about yourselves.
Guy’s rich. Swallow some pride, a bottle of expensive red wine and some soft publicity, lebron is ok. He is collecting from the lakers the dough
Tw0-year
Well if he stays hurt and it just might be a zero year contract….
or still TwO Yrs
Trade away Kendrick Nunn
Trade away luxury taxes
Salary dump!
Atleast his last name fits the amount of games he played
Hahaha
The best post ever!
Lol
What is the biggest reason Lakers pay $20 million luxury tax for his service?
Got paid to sit on his ass and watch basketball games and take private jets , what a life he live
Where’d they find that pic of him in a uniform?
Preseason, that’s when he got hurt
love K-Nunn. when he’s healthy he can put up 30… but he’s almost literally never healthy
Kendrick Nunn will likely never suit up for the Lakers. He can expect to be traded as will Talen Horton Tucker. Lakers have no draft picks. Lakers will once again have to sign a bunch a washed vets to minimum salary contracts.
Must I point the obvious, all & any of the washed vets in the team contributed so much more than K-Nunn, which I always said that was not good enough for the LAL, which so far he has proven to be the right opinion!
Or they can actually do some scouting and development like the Miami Heat. Look at all the random guys on that roster who are contributing.
What a jerk
huh lol
Let’s see you turn down 5 million dollars…
Long hard road back for the Lakers. Thu could be Ball, Russell, Hart, Ingram and Randle Pope and Kuzma and be winning but they chose Day to Day AD and LeStat. One title and a long hard road back.
I mean they got a title so can you really complain or call it a failure. I mean of course this season wasn’t what they hoped. But they got a title which is more than most teams can say last 10 years or longer.
@Spike
I love revisionist history. Russell and Randle were disliked as Lakers. People crucified Kuzma because he failed as that 3rd star they were seeking. None of those guys did ANYTHING as Lakers that made them keepers. Some were used to get AD and together with Lebron you guys won a chip. That’s supposed to be the goal. What a joke.
Kuzma and Drummond have become darlings around here lately
Travel the posts 365 days backwards you’ll find the same {Laker} slammers as the ones dishing pleasantries today
Spike As Ive mentioned before your not signing all those anyways , your picking and choosing and good luck with all that noise. Not to mention that’s an 8 seed team in the west
Lakers stay healthy they are a playoff team. Can a coach help to make them better than that. I guess that’s the big question.
Never been a Westbrook hater. But it takes two to tango. Westbrook has to adjust his game to get wins. And Lakers have use his strengths and just let him play. Imo they let Bron GM this team to where it is. They got lucky on a Covid Title. And now the window is closing.
He gave the lakers the same contributions as everyone on this comment thread this year