Lakers News: Ex-LA Big Man Cut By Current Club, Could A Reunion Be In The Works?
Longtime NBA veteran center -- and infamous one-time Los Angeles Laker -- Mike Muscala is hitting the buyout market!
Per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Muscala is negotiating a buyout of his current deal with the lottery-bound Detroit Pistons, and apparently is already being considered by several playoff hopefuls.
Muscala is best remembered in Tinseltown as he subject of your Los Angeles Lakers' second-dumbest trade with Rob Pelinka in the front office (take a wild guess which deal I rank first). LA, then led by Magic Johnson, acquired the Clippers at the 2018-19 season's trade deadline in exchange for Ivica Zubac and Michael Beasley, in a hilariously one-sided deal.
Muscala is a fringe NBA player who contributed absolutely nothing during his two months in Los Angeles. He immediately left for the Oklahoma City Thunder in free agency as soon as he could. Zubac, meanwhile, is still the starting center for the Clippers, now the third-ranked team in the Western Conference (37-19) five years later. The 26-year-old double-double machine is in the second year of a below-market value three-year, $32.8 million contract with the Clips.
