{"id":12836,"date":"2025-07-22T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12836\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:34:10","slug":"malcolm-brogdon-reportedly-remains-on-lakers-radar-after-marcus-smart-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12836\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Brogdon Reportedly Remains on Lakers&#8217; Radar After Marcus Smart Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Los Angeles Lakers currently have 14 players under contract and are just under the first apron threshold, where they are hard-capped, after adding Marcus Smart and waiving both Shake Milton and Jordan Goodwin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">If they do make another move, however, keep an eye on Malcolm Brogdon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/nba-stories\/siegels-scoop-nba-intel-chris-paul-bradley-beal-marcus-smart-deals?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=tw&amp;utm_campaign=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brett Siegel<\/a> of Clutch Points, &#8220;Brogdon, a player Los Angeles expressed trade interest in before the 2025 NBA trade deadline, remains on their radar should the team free up extra funds in a small consolidation trade. The Lakers had also previously expressed interest in defensive-minded swingman Gary Payton II before Smart reached his buyout in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Siegel also noted that Brogdon was &#8220;connected&#8221; to the Golden State Warriors during the annual rumor mill that is the Las Vegas Summer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brogdon, 32, appeared in just 24 games for the tanking Washington Wizards last season, averaging 12.7 points and 4.1 assists per contest. While injuries have dampened his impact in recent years, he&#8217;s a solid rotational option for a contending team&#8217;s backcourt and would make sense for either the Lakers or Dubs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers currently have 14 players under contract and are just under the first apron threshold,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}