{"id":100776,"date":"2025-06-15T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100776\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:09:09","slug":"lakers-expected-to-keep-trey-jemison-re-sign-christian-koloko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100776\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Expected To Keep Trey Jemison, Re-Sign Christian Koloko"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lakers are likely to bring back two-way players Trey Jemison<\/a> and Christian Koloko<\/a> next season, Jovan Buha of The Athletic said in a recent video Q&A session (YouTube link<\/a>, hat tip to BasketNews<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Jemison signed a two-year, two-way contract in January, so Buha expects L.A. to keep him as one of its three two-way players. The 25-year-old center had some productive moments in his 22 games with the Lakers, averaging 2.6 points and 2.8 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per night while shooting 61.9% from the field. He also spent time with New Orleans last season and had brief stints with Washington and Memphis in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n

Koloko, who\u2019ll turn 25 this week, joined the Lakers in September after overcoming a blood clot issue<\/a> that forced him to sit out the 2023\/24 season. He appeared in 37 games, averaging 2.4 points and 2.5 rebounds in 9.2 minutes per night and shot 60.6% from the floor. Koloko will become a restricted free agent if the Lakers submit a qualifying offer, which Buha expects them to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would be a mistake to let him walk without at least trying to retain him,\u201d Buha said. \u201cKoloko makes sense as a 14th or 15th guy on the roster, a third center. And Jemison fits as a two-way guy. I think both guys would tentatively be back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lakers\u2019 other two-way player from this season, Jordan Goodwin<\/a>, was promoted to a standard contract<\/a> in late March. There was speculation that Jemison or Koloko might join him to become eligible for the playoffs, but L.A. opted to keep veteran big man Alex Len<\/a>, who made two brief appearances in the first-round loss to Minnesota. Coach J.J. Redick played without a center for long stretches as the series wore on.<\/p>\n

Buha addressed a few other topics in the video, stating that Jazz center Walker Kessler<\/a> is probably unrealistic as a trade target and suggesting veteran point guard Chris Paul<\/a> as a free agent addition on a veteran\u2019s minimum contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers are likely to bring back two-way players Trey Jemison and Christian Koloko next season, Jovan Buha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,2596,31,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,11129,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-100776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chris-paul","10":"tag-christian-koloko","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-lakers","13":"tag-lakers","14":"tag-lalakers","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleslakers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-trey-jemison","21":"tag-walker-kessler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114688725128888214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}