Lakers News: LA Closes 2023 Offseason With 4 New Signings

With your Los Angeles Lakers' training camp mere weeks around the corner, the team has added four new players to round out its preseason roster, including one old friend.

Los Angeles has announced via an official press statement that returning point guard Scotty Pippen Jr., rookie guards Damion Baugh and Bryce Hamilton, and rookie forward Vincent Valerio-Bodon will join the club in El Segundo. All are inking Exhibit 10 training camp deals.

The Lakers already have 14 players inked to standard contracts and three players signed to two-way deals. They have one opening, on their standard roster, still available, which one of these four players theoretically could occupy, but all four of these players are more likely to be cut after training camp and inked as affiliate players with the club's NBAGL team in El Segundo, the South Bay Lakers. Should they stick with Los Angeles for at least 60 days, they could be eligible for a bonus worth as much as $75,000.

Pippen, a 6'3" guard who is, yes, the son of the Hall of Fame Chicago Bulls small forward Scottie Pippen (yes, their first names are spelled differently), first joined LA on a two-way contract in 2022-23 as an undrafted free agent out of Vanderbilt. He appeared in just six games for the Lakers proper, averaging 2.3 points and 0.7 rebounds across 5.3 minutes a night.

In 19 contests (just four starts) with the South Bay Lakers, Pippen averaged 21.4 points on .469/.300/.771 shooting splits, 5.6 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 1.6 steals a night.

Hamilton, a 6'4" two-guard out of UNLV, suited up alongside Pippen with the South Bay Lakers when he went undrafted in the summer of 2022.

Across 29 matchups with South Bay, he posted averages of 14.1 points on a .514/.385/.679 slash line and 4.6 boards.

Baugh, an All-Big 12 Second Teamer with Texas Christian Universty, averaged 12.6 points on .431/.330/.707 shooting splits during his final season with the Horned Frogs.

The 6'10" Valerio-Bodon, a native of Hungary, most recently suited up for his homeland team of Sopron KC, where he logged averages of 8.2 points on .503/.412/.879 shooting splits and 4.1 boards.

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