Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every week day, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at Kendrick Nunn.
The Lakers’ financial and roster constraints this offseason left them with effectively one way of bringing in an external free agent on any contract greater than a veteran minimum: The taxpayer’s midlevel exception. That they used said exception on Kendrick Nunn shows their belief in a young player, while also putting pressure on him to deliver this season.