Frank Vogel may not have explicitly said that the Lakers are planning to bring Stanley Johnson back, but he made their intentions pretty clear on Monday, when reading between the lines of his post-practice comments.
Vogel confirmed that Johnson (and fellow hardship signing Darren Collison) both were not at practice, and that their 10-day contracts expired on Monday. And when discussing why the team traded Rajon Rondo to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a three-way deal including the New York Knicks that opened up a roster spot for the Lakers — a roster spot they could theoretically use to sign Johnson for the rest of the season — Vogel tried to play coy about what the team was planning to do with said opening.