Free agent wing Juan Toscano-Anderson, who just won a championship with the Warriors, has agreed to a deal with the Lakers, agent Erika Ruiz told Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports.
It’ll be a one-year, minimum-salary contract, tweets Jovan Buha of The Athletic.
As Haynes details, Toscano-Anderson went undrafted out of Marquette in 2015 and spent the next three seasons playing in the Mexican league prior to receiving a tryout with the Warriors’ G League affiliate in Santa Cruz. Obviously, he impressed Golden State with his athleticism and versatility, having spent the last three seasons with the Warriors’ NBA squad.
Across 139 games (17.1 MPG) from 2019-2022, JTA holds career averages of 4.8 PPG, 3.3 RPG and 2.2 APG on .523/.361/.613 shooting. At 29, his upside might be a bit limited, but his energy and enthusiasm should help a Lakers team that was quite old and lethargic last season.
Warriors are going to miss this guy. Just not enough minutes to go around and you’ve got to develop Moody and Kuminga.
JTA does it all and pretty well. Can guard big men and the wing, can shoot the three a little, plays unselfishly. Fills any role you need in a pinch.
He has the athleticism anf potential to be the next GP2. He needs to be little more consistent, reduce mistakes, and have little more confidence offensively. Good luck JTA.
This move should put to rest the notion that the Lakers aren’t going to win the west next season.
He will bring some much needed winning experience to the sorry Lakers.
Good for him. I wish him the best.
Hate to see you leave but it’s understandable. We still got love for you in the bay! Best of luck Juan!
He is a defense first player. Glad to see his NBA dream still alive and making a few million. He should get a lot more time with the Lakers .
The Lakers just don’t like if you shoot FT’S over 85%
Good for JTA, wins a ring with the hometown team and gets to stay in Cali.
Really good deal for them, especially at the minimum. I think there were several teams that could have used him, where he wouldnt necessarily get the taxpayer midlevel, but I thought he could get something in the biannual exception range/4.5 millionish.
Should have kept Jones over signing Drummond a couple of years ago, Troy Brown should give them playmaking/defense months wing to replace Bazemore in that role, and Lonnie Walker as a scorer/potentially to space the floor at combo guard is nice, although I see him more as depth, with Kendrick Nunn being there, this gives them some redundancy there, but with his injury last year, probably a good call to ha e that
JTA gives them something they’ve badly needed, although he is more useful as a 4, in my opinion in, but still helps them in their area of need on the wing, plus they drafted Christie who can give them something there, though he is raw, and hopefully they used Reaves more. They need at least 1 more 3 and D wing option, and I think they should be significantly better if they can stay healthy
For GS he was invaluable depth for multiple guys, but I think Kuminga is going to have a bigger role in most of those spots this year, and he was an obvious guy that would likely be moving on. Really liked him in summer league a few years ago, and just like to see guys like him succeed