The Los Angeles Lakers recently abandoned two players and created a roster space for Marcus Smart for a new signature.
Smart agreed to a two-year, $11 million contract with the Lakers after being released from reconstruction from the Washington Wizard.
JJ Redick’s team has bolstered it with the addition of Deandre Ayton to the NBA Draft free agency and Adou Thiero.
Jordan Goodwin, one of two departures from LA, has already found a new home in the Phoenix Sands. Other players will be visible nearby joining another team.
Shake Milton was traded for the Lakers along with Dorian Finney Smith in exchange for Dangelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three second round picks.
Milton averaged four points in 30 regular-season games in LA last season, and didn’t score one point in the playoffs.
He and Goodwin were abandoned last week to create space for smart.
Goodwin quickly found another NBA team (the Suns), but Milton is taking part in “advanced lectures” with the Euroleague club.
BasketNews reports that Point Guard can sign Partizan Belgrade ahead of the new campaign in late September.
Milton is not the only former NBA player on Partizan Belgrade’s roster next season. He will also be taking part in the past two Lakers.
Then-time basketball campaign president Magic Johnson made a draft day trade with the Philadelphia 76ers to select Isaac Bonga from Germany in the 2018 draft.
Bonga only played one season with the Lakers. I averaged less than 1 point per game before joining Washington Wizard.
He now finds himself in Belgrade with another former laker, Sterling Brown, former New York Knicks Guard Frank Nutilikina and Oklahoma City Thunder’s draft Alek Poxevsky.