NBA News: Rajon Rondo agrees with Grizzlies on Buyout - Lakers

Rajon Rondo has not a future in Tennessee after his trade with the Memphis Grizzlies. With the franchise, he has agreed on a buyout and thus go through the Waiver process. Afterwards, after espn s Adrian Wojnarowski, it is likely that he will take one of the final squads at the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Point Guard veteran ran from 2018 to 2020 for purple and gold and was an integral part of the team, which won the title in the Bubble of Orlando in the previous year. In game 2 of the finals against the HEAT he put a Double Double on (16 and 10). In 94 games for the Lakers, he came to an average of 8.1 points, 6.5 assists and 4.1 rebounds and met almost 35 percent of his threesome.

According to the Championship, he decided to make use of his player option ($ 2.6 million) and instead signed a two-year contract (15 million) at Atlanta Hawks. In March he was then for Lou Williams and Picks to the L.A. Clippers. However, he could not take the hoped-for influence, the clippers failed in the Conference Finals to the Suns.

In the previous week, Rondo was tented together with Patrick Beverley and Daniel Oturu to Memphis, the Clippers received in return Eric Bledsoe. However, for the Grizzlies, the 35-year-old will not be to collect $ 8.3 million in his last year of the contract, it is thus back to the market. There could be the Lakers.

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To the veteran minimum, Rondo is likely to occupy one of the final three rusts of the spots and worries behind Russell Westbrook and LeBron James for discharge in the ball carrying out. According to Dwight Howard, Trevor Ariza, Wayne Ellington and Kent Bazemore, he would be the fifth new acquisition of the Californians, which failed in the preseason already in the first playoff round to Phoenix (2-4).