{"id":123129,"date":"2025-06-25T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/123129\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:56:08","slug":"lakers-have-checked-in-on-all-star-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/123129\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers have checked in on All-Star wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> badly need a starting-level center, they’re also cognizant that they have other roster needs that need to be addressed if they are to become legitimate championship contenders.<\/p>\n

One of those other needs is another two-way wing. Dorian Finney-Smith made a significant impact on the team upon arriving in a late December trade, but at this point in his career, he’s primarily a power forward. The Lakers could use an athletic wing who can play the 2 or 3 positions (or both), hit 3-pointers and defend at a high level.<\/p>\n

Andrew Wiggins of the Miami Heat<\/a> does all that and more. He has been mentioned as someone L.A. should perhaps go after<\/a> and could perhaps land. Indeed, insider Anthony Irwin said on his “Lakers Lounge” podcast<\/a> that the team has talked to Miami about Wiggins (h\/t Athlon Sports<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Wiggins\u2026 have I heard of any interest in him? I think right now the Lakers are interested in any athlete,” Irwin began on the Lakers Lounge. “Now Wiggins does make a little too much money for my liking. $28 million is a lot for Andrew Wiggins. I would imagine they are very well in tune with what Pat [Riley] thinks of Andrew Wiggins, but the Lakers have checked in on him and asked about what the price would be.”<\/p>\n

Wiggins averaged 18.0 points a game and shot 37.4% from 3-point range this season. After he was traded to the Golden State Warriors five years ago, he reinvented himself into a two-way player after he had been regarded as a low-efficiency, no-defense-playing chucker during his initial years with the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Warriors sent him to Miami in February as part of the deal that brought them six-time All-Star forward Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n

Wiggins could potentially start at the 3 for the Lakers and guard multiple positions on the perimeter, and his experience winning the 2022 NBA championship in Golden State wouldn’t exactly hurt either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Los Angeles Lakers badly need a starting-level center, they’re also cognizant that they have other roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[2540,500,299,7,291,1692,374,1693,144,290,313,4034,1698,300,4044,298,251,150,4033,4043,295,189,307,152,70,85,6,62,67,61,81,66,83,308,3681],"class_list":{"0":"post-123129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-andrew","9":"tag-andrew-wiggins","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-butler","13":"tag-dorian","14":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","15":"tag-finney-smith","16":"tag-heat","17":"tag-jimmy","18":"tag-jimmy-butler","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-la-lakers","21":"tag-lakers","22":"tag-lalakers","23":"tag-los","24":"tag-los-angeles","25":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","26":"tag-losangeles","27":"tag-losangeleslakers","28":"tag-miami","29":"tag-miami-heat","30":"tag-minnesota","31":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-sports","34":"tag-nba","35":"tag-neutral","36":"tag-news","37":"tag-overall","38":"tag-overall-neutral","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-news","41":"tag-timberwolves","42":"tag-wiggins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114743173680492566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123129","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=123129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}