Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell plans to train his $18.7 million possibility to stay with the workforce, based on a number of experiences.
Russell was acquired in the course of the 2023 commerce deadline and has had two robust common seasons, together with setting a franchise file final season with 226 3-pointers in 76 video games. Nonetheless, he faltered within the playoffs each years.
Final offseason, Russell signed a two-year contract that included this participant possibility.
Russell’s choice seems to have been influenced by the Lakers’ latest head teaching change. Los Angeles parted methods with Darvin Ham — who had a generally tumultuous relationship with Russell — and employed JJ Redick.
“I like JJ’s qualities and I imagine I’ll flourish and win at a excessive degree beneath his management,” Russell advised ESPN on Friday night.
Russell, 28, averaged 18.0 factors and 6.3 assists final season. He was drafted by the Lakers because the No. 2 total decide within the 2015 NBA Draft and has averaged 17.8 factors and 5.8 assists per sport with the Lakers (2015-17, 2023-24), Brooklyn Nets (2017 -19), Golden State Warriors (2019-20) and Minnesota Timberwolves (2020-23).
He was chosen to the All-Star workforce in the course of the 2018–19 season, when he averaged 21.1 factors and seven.0 assists with the Nets.
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