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5 free agents to help save the Los Angeles Lakers season

By Jack Simone

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - JANUARY 11: Michael Beasley #11 of the Los Angeles Lakers looks on in a NBA game against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena on January 11, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - JANUARY 11: Michael Beasley #11 of the Los Angeles Lakers looks on in a NBA game against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena on January 11, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images) /
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5 free agents to help save the Los Angeles Lakers season
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – DECEMBER 08: Tyreke Evans #12 of the Indiana Pacers is seen before the game against the Sacramento Kings at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on December 8, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) /

5 free agents to help save the Los Angeles Lakers season: Greg Monroe

Greg Monroe is far from a starting-caliber big man in the NBA, but that’s not what he’d have to be for the Lakers. He’d just have to be better than DeAndre Jordan and Dwight Howard.

Based on how this current season has gone, that might not be too hard to do. Monroe has bounced around from team to team on various 10-day contracts this season.

He’s shot around 50 percent from the field on every team he’s been on, and at the very least, he would provide the Lakers with a big body to throw around on defense.

Jordan is a candidate to be bought out, and while Howard isn’t horrendous, he’s been a shell of his former, 2020 self this season. Monroe could provide them with another center option.

5 free agents to help save the Los Angeles Lakers season: Tyreke Evans

This one falls under the Micahel Beasley category of signing. Tyreke Evans isn’t anywhere close to the player he once was, but again, what do the Lakers have to lose?

The NBA just reinstated Evans after he was banned from the league for two years for violating the NBA anti-drug program. Now he’s back, and teams could look to take a chance on him.

Evans didn’t shoot super well from the field in his final year in the league before being banned, but if the Lakers could even get some sort of floor-spacing out of him it would be a win.

Just like with Monroe, the Lakers don’t need Evans to be a huge difference-maker. But if he can outplay even one player on their bench, it could be worth it. (And that probably isn’t very hard to do.)

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