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These concerns have highlighted one crucial missing piece: Christian Wood. Wood picked up his player option in the offseason to rejoin the Lakers. The goal was to be an effective rotational piece ...

Christian Wood’s strings of bad luck ended with a “kiss of death” on Tuesday, Feb. 11, when the Los Angeles Lakers waived him to sign free agent center Alex Len. An unsuspecting Wood replied ...

The Lakers’ decision to sign Alex Len and waive Christian Wood isn’t just a routine roster move—it’s a statementabout Wood’s standing in the NBA. While most of the attention is on how ...

Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images The Lakers had to waive someone in order to make the trade happen, and they chose forward/center Christian Wood ...

Due to the Williams trade failing, the Lakers didn't have an extra roster spot and decided to waive Christian Wood to accommodate Len. Wood was clearly not anticipating this, as he told Lakers ...

The Los Angeles Lakers are signing free-agent center Alex Len, the team announced Tuesday. The 7-foot, 250-pound big provides the Lakers with much-needed size and physicality after the nixed Mark ...

Dalton Knecht and Cam Reddish returned to L.A. and their only center options now are Jaxson Hayes, the injured Christian Wood and two-way bigs Christian Koloko and Trey Jemison III. Clearly ...

Waiving Christian Wood was a bigger statement than signing Len. Wood’s talent has never been in question—he’s a floor-spacing big who can score at all three levels. But talent only matters ...

Christian Wood is coming off a year where he appeared in 50 games for the Los Angeles Lakers. He averaged 6.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists per contest while shooting 46.6% from the field ...