Los Angeles Lakers: Four remaining point guard free agents to target

By Jason Reed | Jul 2, 2019

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2. Trey Burke

Trey Burke is one of those players that is better than a lot of people realize and has quietly been putting together some good seasons as a result. Maybe it is because he has played on irrelevant teams his entire career but Burke has put together some good years and it is a surprise that he is not yet signed to a team.

Trey Burke reminds me a lot of Seth Curry. He is not a lights out shooter like Curry but he is a point guard that has shown some potential and the hype has not yet caught up. We were raving about how Curry should have been a cheap target for LA last year and now this year he signed a four-year, $32 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks.

Heck, prior to the 2017 offseason we even stated that Burke should be a Laker. A year has passed and nothing has changed: Trey Burke should be on the Los Angeles Lakers.

Burke has averaged 11.6 points, 3.5 assists and has shot nearly 36 percent from beyond the arc combined over the last two seasons. Burke has put together those scoring numbers in just 20.3 minutes per game. His 20.1 points per 36 minutes last year was almost as much as Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart combined.

Burke does not need to score a lot on the Lakers and thrive as an off-ball, shooting guard-like point guard. All the Lakers need is a good chunk of minutes and some decent scoring, both of which Burke is more than capable of providing.

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