The Los Angeles Lakers added to their frontcourt on Tuesday, agreeing to a two-year take care of ahead/middle Christian Wood, ESPN and The Athletic reported.
The package deal is value $5.7 million, with the second yr being a participant possibility, per the stories.
Though the contract was not formally introduced, Wood posted Tuesday on X, previously generally known as Twitter, “It’s always been my dream to be a laker,” adopted by a purple coronary heart emoji and a gold coronary heart emoji.
Entering his eighth NBA season, Wood, 27, is ready to hitch his eighth crew. Last season, in his lone marketing campaign with the Dallas Mavericks, Wood put up averages of 16.6 factors and seven.3 rebounds per recreation. Arguably his greatest season got here in 2020-21 for the Houston Rockets, when he averaged 21 factors and 9.6 rebounds whereas beginning in all 41 of his appearances.
In 289 profession NBA video games (139 begins), Wood has averages of 14.8 factors and seven.3 boards. He has performed for the Philadelphia 76ers (2015-16), Charlotte Hornets (2016-17), Milwaukee Bucks (2018-19), New Orleans Pelicans (2018-19), Detroit Pistons (2019-20), Houston (2020-21 to 2021-22) and Mavericks. — Field Level Media/Reuters
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