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What JJ Redick told Trey Jemison after he signed with LA Lakers, just after he had made other plans

January 18, 2025 4 Min Read
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The LA Lakers made one other mid-season roster transfer.

By way of 38 video games performed, the LA Lakers have a 21-17 report, which leaves them mid-table because the No. 6 seed within the Western Convention. Whereas it will be adequate to make the playoffs and keep away from the Play-In Match, the convention is tight-knit for the mid-table groups and so they may simply fall a couple of seeds down with a nasty stretch of play.

Led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers have loads of potential. The membership is seeking to make roster tweaks to assist first-year head coach JJ Redick as they undertaking to be a playoff workforce, although they should sharpen up their sport to develop into title contenders.

Whereas the workforce made a mid-season commerce to land Dorian Finney-Smith, they lately waived one participant to make room for Trey Jamison, who lately performed for the New Orleans Pelicans.

Photograph by Sam Hodde/Getty Pictures

In-season strikes are fairly widespread throughout the NBA as groups see what areas they may be capable to enhance. The Lakers added Jemison for one key motive.

The 6-foot-11, 260-pound middle brings a wealth of dimension so as to add down low and usher in off the bench to have a drive towards the opposition. Anthony Davis doesn’t fairly have the scale of Jemison, so it’s a superb asset to have on the bench.

Redick even let Jemison know what they had been in search of together with his addition, which means he is aware of precisely what to convey for the Lakers.

Requested what Redick informed him, Jemison responded: “I gotta be a canine, man. Simply convey nice vitality on the bench, video games, speaking loud. Be bodily man,” Jemison defined.

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“Simply be extraordinarily bodily, simply assist, you already know what I’m saying? I’m not right here to be a celebrity and I’m not right here to attain loads of factors; rebound, block photographs, play protection.”

Doing the soiled work and utilizing his physicality goes to present Jemison path when he hits the ground for the Lakers, which is what any function participant can do to supply worth after they aren’t a star.

The 6-foot-11 middle made his NBA debut through the 2023-24 NBA season, and he performed 25 video games — two with the Washington Wizards and 23 with the Memphis Grizzlies — earlier than becoming a member of the Pelicans this season.

Jemison has averaged 10.4 minutes per sport for the Pelicans. He was ready to affix the Birmingham Squadron — the Pelicans’ G League affiliate — after being minimize by the membership, as he revealed.

“Annoyed, damage [at being cut by New Orleans]. However simply trusting God, man, realizing tomorrow will work out. I ended up going again to Birmingham to apply with the G League,” Jemison revealed.

“Going via their apply and watching them apply, I believe I’m gonna play with them. And acquired a cellphone name from JJ, Modified in a single day, so be grateful, man.”

Jemison was going to return to the G League as he was figuring out in Birmingham once more, although issues rapidly modified for him. That was simply earlier than Redick informed him what they wanted from him in Los Angeles, too.

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