{"id":94909,"date":"2025-06-13T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/94909\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:23:14","slug":"lakers-player-undergoes-offseason-surgery-to-address-troublesome-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/94909\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Player Undergoes Offseason Surgery to Address Troublesome Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lakers Player Undergoes Offseason Surgery to Address Troublesome Issue<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the 2025 NBA playoffs despite having LeBron James and Luka Doncic and home-court advantage in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n

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The Lakers lost Games 1, 3, 4 and 5 against the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

This is a big offseason for Los Angeles president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka. He will be tasked to acquire a center and sign Doncic and Austin Reaves to extensions.<\/p>\n

James has a player option to return to the Lakers next season. He’s widely expected to pick up the option and play in his 23rd NBA campaign.<\/p>\n

Pelinka made two trades this season. He acquired Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton from the Brooklyn Nets and Doncic from the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers forward Dorian Finney-Smith (right) had surgery. \u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Finney-Smith has until June 29 to opt out of the final year of his contract worth $15.4 million<\/a> for next season. The forward is extension-eligible before free agency begins on June 30.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of\u00a0Finney-Smith, the swingman\u00a0underwent surgery on his left ankle and is expected to be able to participate in training camp ahead of the 2025-26 NBA season, according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finney-Smith appeared in 43 games with the Lakers. He averaged 7.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists while shooting 44.2% from the field, 39.8% from beyond the arc and 71.4% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

The Lakers went 29-14 when Finney-Smith played.<\/p>\n

“Finney-Smith was a valuable 3-and-D contributor for a Lakers team that finished 11th in team offensive rating and 17th in team defensive rating last season,” McMenamin wrote. “He was also a popular locker room presence and a trusted confidant of Doncic.”<\/p>\n

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Finney-Smith has played for the Mavericks, Nets and Lakers. He has career averages of 8.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.4 assists in\u00a0591 NBA games.<\/p>\n

Related: Lakers Urged to Trade for Center Luka Doncic Would ‘Thrive’ With<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers Player Undergoes Offseason Surgery to Address Troublesome Issue originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Los Angeles Lakers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[1013,7,247,149,8095,374,4034,1698,300,4044,185,251,150,4033,4043,368,152,6,3088,4611],"class_list":{"0":"post-94909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dave-mcmenamin","13":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-lakers","16":"tag-lakers","17":"tag-lalakers","18":"tag-lebron-james","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-losangeleslakers","23":"tag-luka-doncic","24":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-rob-pelinka","27":"tag-shake-milton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114673444671660153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94909","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=94909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}