Lakers forward Cam Reddish has picked up his minimum-salary player option for 2024/25, per Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter). The move guarantees Reddish’s $2.46MM salary for next season.
Last season with Los Angeles, Reddish averaged a career-worst 5.4 PPG on .389/.336/.759 shooting, alongn with 2.1 RPG, 1.0 APG and 1.0 SPG. Health issues limited him to just 48 contests with the club, which included 26 starts.
As Jovan Buha of The Athletic tweets, now that Reddish, Christian Wood, D’Angelo Russell, and Jaxson Hayes have picked up their options for next season, the Lakers project to have 14 roster spots filled for next season, assuming LeBron James returns.
The Lakers have three rostered role players who are free agents this season in reserve 3-and-D forward Taurean Prince and backup guards Max Christie and Spencer Dinwiddie. Buha notes that Los Angeles may want to hold on to Christie, a restricted free agent.
To carve out more roster space, the front office may be looking to offload contracts. Given that Hayes and Reddish were minimal contributors during the Lakers’ stretch run and postseason, those two are among the most obvious candidates to be moved. Extracting value in return could prove difficult.
All these scrubs coming back to LA and opting in is going to make improving the roster pretty difficult. About the only way to do it is if LeBron takes less money and he realizes that now.
Nobody wants these dudes in trade that’s for sure. Lakers in a tough spot until next summer when all these guys are free agents and can’t opt back in.
Who could LAL realistically get that’s better? Who is this silver bullet all of you thinks exist to make this team better by trading a bunch of bad contracts/players for? Tired of your whining
I hear you and the Warriors are in the same boat. Really who’s out there to Target to make the team a lot better? The Warriors are already saying development of In-House guys is the way to go. So I see what you’re saying and I’m whining about the Warriors at the same time.
It will be interesting to see if Lebum takes less. I say he does not.
He averaged a career worst…but never played with ATL or NY so is it really worst?
I forgot he was even on the team lol