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Los Angeles Lakers: Grading every move of Magic Johnson’s tenure

By Jason Reed

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 23: Magic Johnson, president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers talks to the media during a press conference on June 23, 2017 at the team training faculity in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 23: Magic Johnson, president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers talks to the media during a press conference on June 23, 2017 at the team training faculity in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /
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2017 free agent signings

For the free agent signings last summer, we are only including players that were completely new to the Los Angeles Lakers organization, whether there was experience on the Lakers or in the G League. Also, players had to play at least 10 games with the Lakers for us to count it as significant, making there two signings to grade.

Signing Kentavious Caldwell Pope — C

  • Date: July 13, 2017

The Los Angeles Lakers, who desperately needed a starting shooting guard prior to the 2017-2018 NBA season, opted to overpay Kentavious Caldwell-Pope $18 million for one year of his services.

I mean, this deal was fine. Caldwell-Pope was not particularly great last season but he did make the team better than it would have been without him. He did not have any sort of negative cap implications and did not really hold the team back from anything.

So while he did not do anything bad, he did not do anything noteworthy, either, making this an easy, middle of the road, C.

Signing Andrew Bogut — D

  • Date: September 19, 2017

The Los Angeles Lakers agreed to a one-year minimum deal with center Andrew Bogut pretty late in the free agent period to bring him in as a depth piece at the center position.

Bogut did not do much with the Lakers, averaging just 9.4 minutes per game and 1.7 points per game. He did not last long, either, as he played just 23 games with the Lakers.

It is hard to give this an F as it had no negative repercussions on the Los Angeles Lakers, it simply did not do what the team had hoped. A D is still a failing grade, but it is not terrible.

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