Lakers Eye Emerging 23-Year-Old Center Fitting JJ Redick’s Desire

r-starved Los Angeles Lakers are among the several NBA teams monitoring the situation of broklin net former first-round pick day Roy shapes Hoopshypes’ Michael Scotto reported.

“Sharpe, who’s eligible for restricted free agency this summer, is being monitored by the Grizzlies, Clippers, Pelicans, Lakers, and Raptors, league sources told HoopsHype,”scotto wrote

Sharpe will make his season debut on Monday, December 2, against the chicago bulls after recovering from a hamstring injury.

The 23-year-old Sharpe was the 29th overall pick in 2021. He is coming off his best season in the NBA, averaging career highs across the board: 6.8 points on 57.1% field goal shooting, 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 15.1 minutes as nic Claston s backup.

The emergence of Noah Clowney makes Sharpe, who will be a restricted free agent after this season, expendable.

The 6-foot-9 Sharpe fits the mold of what Lakers rookie head coach JJ Redick has been looking for to help ease the burden of Antony Davis

“You certainly have to look at what I think is actually a very good roster, a very balanced roster,” Redick said in an interview with justin determine eddie Johnson on a Sirius nba radio We’d love to, we tried, but we’d love to, at some point, get another five man, a big bruising five man. You look at the Western Conference right now, whether it’s Denver, Minnesota, OKC with what they added, certainly Memphis, they’re going to be back in the hunt, they added zach eddy certain matchups in the playoffs, you’re going to need a lot of size.”