The Los Angeles Lakers have a few veterans on their roster, but overall have an incredibly young team. 17-year veteran Jason Terry saw their roster, featuring prospects like D'Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson, and Brandon Ingram, and thought they might be able to use him to replace Kobe Bryant as an aging chucker as a veteran leader. His fellow Arizona alumni, Lakers head coach Luke Walton, disagreed (h/t Maximo Gonzalez of Lakers Nation for the transcription).
“I called my good friend Luke [Walton],” Terry told host Tom Byrne on Sirius XM. “I told him if he needed any help- veteran leadership, in that capacity, with an ability to coach at the end of my deal, then that was something I would be looking forward to.