NBA News: Los Angeles Lakers Make Signature of Deandre Jordan Official

It had already been suggested, now it is official. Deandre Jordan has signed a contract at the Los Angeles Lakers and will play the coming season on the side of LeBron James and Anthony Davis around the championship.

The Lakers announced that on Thursday in an official press release. According to Bobby Marks ( espn ), the Center gets the veteran minimum over $ 2.6 million for one year.

Jordan was brought by Brooklyn Nets to Detroit Pistons last week to save money. In the future planning of the pistons, the 33-year-old did not play a role, both parties acted a buyout by renouncing Jordan to 4 million the originally guaranteed 20 million over the next two seasons.

The Big one closed the Nets together with his good buddy of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, but in the past season he fell out of the rotation. Instead, Blake Griffin and Nicolas Claxton acquires a large part of the minutes on the five. For the coming season Brooklyn also committed Lamarcus Aldridge and Paul Millsap.

We are definitely no friends anymore, Jordan joked after his Nets-out of the relationship with KD and Irving, then to get serious again. We were friends before basketball and will remain afterwards. In the end, we all want to be happy.

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At the Lakers, he will fight behind Anthony Davis and the Center Backups Marc Gasol and Dwight Howard for minutes. That I can play a title again, I was very important to me and they understand that, says Jordan. Last season, he set up 7.5 points in 57 missions and 7.5 rebounds for the Nets. Previously, he started ten years for the L.A. Clippers before landing over Dallas and New York in Brooklyn.