Not even fifteen minutes had passed since Germany began to digest the defeat, when Shams Charania released in The Athletic a small bomb but capable of having the effects of a huge explosion. Dennis Schröder, starting point guard for the Teutonic national team and about to be the cause of Spain not getting into another Eurobasket final, returns to the Los Angeles Lakers, a franchise in which he already played in 2020-21 and from which a Once they decided to play the Westbrook card.
Schroder is signing a one-year, $2.64 million deal to return to the Lakers, sources said. https://t.co/SIN6gcULEG
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 16, 2022
The agreement has every intention, since it is for the minimum salary, which is nothing more than the indication of a mutual desire to go for the ring at any cost, despite the economic sacrifice that the player must make, which he undoubtedly holds higher cache. He started last year with the Celtics jersey and finished it with the Rockets. From contender to the ring to contend for number 1 in the Draft. The Massachusetts experiment did not work, and Udoka preferred to cede command of operations to Marcus Smart and then went after Derrick White.
Between both teams, the playmaker last year he averaged 13.5 points and 4.6 assists in 29 minutes of play, with average percentages for his career (he has never stood out for being a good shooter of three and more for hurting breaking inside).
The million dollar question
What we have just indicated in the last parenthesis fits quite well with the description of another player that they already have on the roster at Lakerland. And it is that with the arrival of Schöder the question, already in itself always in the environment, becomes inescapable. Is the arrival of Schöder the prelude to the imminent departure of the team of his counterpart, Russell Westbrook?
