PLACE N ° 15 IN THE ROSTER OF CHAMPIONS IN OFFICE, the candidates

PLACE N ° 15 IN THE ROSTER OF CHAMPIONS IN OFFICE | With the signing of Marc Gasol first and then Jared Dudley, the Lakers have almost completed their roster waiting for the start of the new season. There is still a place on the roster available, the fifteenth, and there is no shortage of names that could be useful for the team coached by Frank Vogel. Here are all the most likely options on GM Rob Pelinka's table KYLE KORVER | Danny Green, a 40% three-point shooter in his career, is gone. On the other hand, Dennis Schroder shot 38.5% last season (but does not reach 34% in his career) and Wesley Matthews has an overall percentage over 38% but is only back from 34.3% in the last championship. So why not take an extra specialist, like the former Bucks?

At the start of the next playoffs, he will already be 40 years old, but last year he was close to 42% from the arc DEMARRE CARROLL | The Lakers theoretically faced him in the 2020 playoff challenge against the Rockets, but Carroll did not set foot on the pitch. However, he remains a player in the 3 & D category - three-point shooting and defense - with playoff experience, who in the postseason 2019 (in Brooklyn) ensured even more than 6 points and 4 rebounds from the bench in about twenty minutes. How much is still left in Vanderbilt's product tank? THABO SEFOLOSHA | The question also applies to the Swiss, who on the other hand wasn't even in the Rockets' 2020 playoff roster, even though his last NBA appearances are with the Houston jersey. Veteran, excellent defender in his prime (now obviously less), is considered by all to be a locker room player TREVOR ARIZA | It would be a return to the Lakers jersey, with which he won the NBA title in 2009, before being escorted to the door to make way for Ron Artest / Metta World Peace. His whirlwind of trade has made people talk (4 teams in 6 days), for the moment he is at OKC but it is difficult for him to be part of Sam Presti's reconstruction plans (password: youth). And the former UCLA could come in handy for the Lakers. PAU GASOL | Speaking of returns, this would be sensational: A) because one of the great protagonists of the 2009 and 2010 rings (the shoulder of Kobe Bryant) would return in yellow-violet; B) because he would pair up with his brother Marc. He is a long way from the NBA fields, but LeBron James has already said he is a possibility to welcome him: “Why not? We'll see…". The door seems open ... DEWAYNE DEDMON | In California he was born and went to college, right in L.A. (to USC). He has returned from a disastrous year, between Atlanta and Sacramento, but only during the 2018-19 season - in the Hawks jersey - did he travel with over 38% from three points on almost three and a half pitches in the evening. And for a long one with its centimeters it is certainly not little.