Bowman is the lakers future and untradeable
What a season it was for the Los Angeles Lakers which started with a horror starting schedule which had the lakers facing most of ther toughest of top teams in the first 17 games and that meant the lakers starting the season going 1-16 with the only win coming vs the Brooklyn Nets.
Half way through the season the lakers then traded Marvin Bagley to the los Angeles clippers in a deal that got them Zach Collins and Rui and in that span the Lakers won 6 games straight and looked to have their season back on track.
Then came to the end of the season where the Lakers became red hot winning the last 9 of 10 games and going undefeated in April ( 7-0 ) and ending up with a record 36-46 with bowman torching teams including 47 points against the Spurs and 40 against the Utah Jazz.
Unfortuantly the Lakers missed out on the playoffs just !
Lets Talk About some of the players:
Ky Bowman
Future Superstar Bowman upped his scoring by 7.5ppg this year , increased his fg % , TS and eff and even made it to the All Star bench ! Bowman is forever a lakers as along as Stockton is around.
PPG:23.8
ASPG:6.1
TS: .587
EFF:20.4
Nicolo Melli
Finished his first season after being drafted by the lakers after they traded their first round pick to orlando for him at pick 10.
PPG:8.2
RBPG: 4.8
3PT: .411
FG% : .471
Metecan Birsen
First year after being picked at #9 but he strugged with his shooting but kept his spot starting at sf as the lakers wanted to give him more experience .
PPG:9.1
RBPG: 3.2
ASPG:2.0
The Future?
The lakers have their first round pick this year which after the huge winning streak jumped from 6th to maybe now 10th but with stocktons sleeping in tatics at lotto time only time will tell where the pick will land.
Jordan Clarkson has a team option and the lakers will almost certainly pick it up and bring him back for another year, Randle has player option and the lakers think he will pick it up as he is there best rebounder and become a huge expiring and valuable contract next year.
Kostas is a restricted free agent but question remain what kinda money will be thrown at him during free agency but the lakers will monitor that and see what happens. As for the rest of the players the Lakers will look to stand solid and keep them unless they get an upgrade and hopefully start a winning stretch next year!