Los Angeles Lakers Roster 2013-2014
Los Angeles Lakers current roster, including new players, pictures, draft picks and playoff roster for the 2013-14 NBA Season.
2013-2014 Season Roster:
After a disastrous 2012-13 season, barely making the 2013 Playoffs and being swept by the Spurs, the Lakers knew what was going to happen: Dwight Howard felt the pressure and instead of staying and facing the challenge of working to be the leader of the best franchise in the NBA, left as free agent to a place (Houston) where the expectations were lower and he could instantly be the center of attention. Facing the 2013-14 NBA season without Howard and with an injured Kobe Bryant, the Lakers didn't make big movements other than amnestying Metta World Peace. They kept what they had while filling the holes left by their free agents with cheap and short-term deals. They also signed Kobe to a two-year contract extension. All of this with their mind set in the 2014 free agency period when most of their contracts expire (including Gasol's) and they might have enough salary-cap flexibility to add another big name to join Kobe. Meanwhile, Pau Gasol, in the final year of his contract had the opportunity to be a primary weapon on offense again, despite the fact that his game clearly doesn't fit D'Antoni's system. He also survived another wave of trade rumors and remained with the team until the end of the season. Despite the fact that Kobe played just 6 games, Nash 15, and the injury list was endless, the 2013-14 season balance also includes some of the most embarrassing moments in franchise history (like the 48-point loss at the hands of the Clippers), a team that played awful defense, and the second-worst winning percentage ever. All leads to the conclusion that hiring Mike D'Antoni over Phil Jackson was one of the worst mistakes ever made by this franchise. |
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2013-2014 Los Angeles Lakers roster and Players Status
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No. | Player | Position | Ht | Wt | Yrs | DOB | more | |
1 | Jordan Farmar | Point Guard | 6-2 | 180 | 6 | 11/30/1986 | profile | buy jersey |
12 | Kendall Marshall | Point Guard | 6-4 | 195 | 1 | 8/19/1991 | profile | buy jersey |
10 | Steve Nash | Point Guard | 6-3 | 195 | 17 | 7/2/1974 | profile | buy jersey |
6 | Kent Bazemore | Shooting Guard | 6-5 | 201 | 1 | 7/1/1989 | profile | buy jersey |
24 | Kobe Bryant | Shooting Guard | 6-6 | 205 | 17 | 8/23/1978 | profile | buy jersey |
2 | MarShon Brooks | Shooting Guard | 6-5 | 200 | 2 | 1/26/1989 | profile | buy jersey |
7 | Xavier Henry | Shooting Guard | 6-6 | 220 | 3 | 3/15/1991 | profile | buy jersey |
20 | Jodie Meeks | Shooting Guard | 6-4 | 208 | 4 | 8/21/1987 | profile | buy jersey |
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No. | Player | Position | Ht | Wt | Yrs | DOB | more | |
0 | Nick Young | Shooting G / Small F. | 6-7 | 210 | 6 | 6/1/1985 | profile | buy jersey |
11 | Wesley Johnson | Small Forward | 6-7 | 215 | 3 | 7/11/1987 | profile | buy jersey |
4 | Ryan Kelly | Power Forward | 6-11 | 228 | R | 4/9/1991 | profile | buy jersey |
27 | Jordan Hill | Power F. / Center | 6-10 | 235 | 4 | 7/27/1987 | profile | buy jersey |
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No. | Player | Position | Ht | Wt | Yrs | DOB | more | |
16 | Pau Gasol | Power F. / Center | 7-0 | 250 | 12 | 7/6/1980 | profile | buy jersey |
9 | Chris Kaman | Center | 7-0 | 265 | 10 | 4/28/1982 | profile | buy jersey |
50 | Robert Sacre | Center | 7-0 | 260 | 1 | 6/6/1989 | profile | buy jersey |
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No. | Player | Position | Ht | Wt | Yrs | DOB | more | |
5 | Steve Blake (traded) | Point Guard | 6-3 | 172 | 10 | 2/26/1980 | profile | |
2 | Elias Harris (waived) | Small F. / Power F. | 6-8 | 239 | R | 7/6/1989 | profile | |
3 | Manny Harris | Guard | 6-5 | 185 | 2 | 9/21/1989 | profile | |
3 | Shawne Williams (waived) | Small F. / Power F. | 6-9 | 230 | 6 | 2/16/1986 | profile | |
Notes: Yrs means complete NBA seasons.
Head Coach: | Mike D'Antoni | |
Assistant Coaches: (they are allowed to be on the bench) |
Dan D'Antoni
Kurt Rambis Johnny Davis | |
Player Development Coaches | Mark Madsen Larry Lewis |
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Athletic Trainer: | Gary Vitti | |
2013-2014 Player Movement
They arrived: Lakers new Players and Assistant Coaches
Chris Kaman Kaman, 31 and an All-Star in 2010, played for the Clippers in his first 8 years in the NBA and returns to L.A. after agreeing to take the Lakers taxpayer mid-level exception of $3.2 million for one year, significantly less that what he could have gotten somewhere else. Kaman's arrival is also a sign that the Lakers, as a luxury-tax team, don't have this season the tools to completely change the roster to play at D'Antoni's preferred full-speed pace. They could continue to play a little slower than that, using the inside game they adopted midway through 2012-13 that allowed them to finish with 28 wins in their final 40 games. Kaman is not Dwight Howard but he's clearly a skilled big man that if healthy could be part of a very talented tandem with Pau Gasol. |
Jordan Farmar He played four seasons in L.A. where he contributed to the 2009 and 2010 championships and then decided to leave to get a starting role and better pay somewhere else. He played two seasons for the Nets before flying to Europe where he spent last year as the top player of the Anadolu Efes in Turkey. Farmar, 26, is a traditional point guard that can organize the offense but he's also a good shooter that could play shooting guard for D'Antoni. He has NBA career averages of 7.7 points and 2.8 assists in 19.5 minutes and his best season was the last playing for the Nets with 10.4 points and 3.3 assists in 21.3 minutes. The Lakers had to negotiate a $500,000 buyout with his current team but it won't count against their salary cap or increase their luxury taxes. |
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Nick Young Young, 28, can play both shooting guard and small forward and has a shoot-first mentality, which is ideal for coach D'Antoni. He averaged 10.6 points and shot 41.3% for Philadelphia last season In his 6-year NBA career he has also played for Washington and briefly with the Clippers. |
Wesley Johnson Johnson, 26 and drafted fourth in the 2010 draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, still has to play to his potential but he showed some improvement last season with Phoenix, where he averaged 8 points in 19.1 minutes. He's expected to evolve into a strong perimeter defender and could come from the bench as Young's backup. |
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Kendall Marshall |
Xavier Henry Manny Harris |
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Kent Bazemore |
MarShon Brooks |
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Assistant Coach Kurt Rambis |
Assistant Coach Johnny Davis He joins Kurt Rambis and Dan D'Antoni -- Mike's brother and the only assistant remaining from last season-- to complete the Lakers coaching staff for 2013-14. |
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They lef during the 2013-14 season:
Bothered with an elbow injury he played (and started) 27 of 54 possible games this season averaging 9.5 points and career-highs with 3.8 rebounds, 7.6 assists and 1.3 steals. He left L.A. after 4 seasons in which he averaged 5.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists playing mostly a reserve role. |
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Elias Harris He agreed to a two-year, minimum-salary contract partially guaranteed the first season (2013-14) but was waived after just two appearances in 16 posible games, 11 minutes played and none points scored. |
Shawne Williams He went from not being sure to make the team to be a starter in the Lakers 2013-14 season opener. He had a $1.1 million contract but was waived in January 2014 before it became guaranteed. |
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They left:
He left as an unrestricted free agent to play with James Harden and Jeremy Lin in Houston where he can be what he really wants to be, the focal point of all lights, something the near future wasn't going to give him in L.A. with Kobe Bryant around. He also met with the Hawks, Mavericks and Warriors but they really didn't have a chance. The Lakers "future" was once Andrew Bynum, then Lakers decided to bet on Dwight Howard, but that wasn't what the diva center had in mind. To begin with he didn't even wanted to play in L.A. The Lakers management, who is not used to make many mistakes made a combination of horrible mistakes by bringing Howard and then hiring D'Antoni instead of Phil Jackson and the final outcome was obvious. The circus around Howard's unending changes of minds about the Orlando Magic the previous year should have been a good indication about what the Lakers could expect form him. Howard started the 2012-13 season looking slow and limited in movements, still recovering from a back surgery performed earlier in 2012 and then injured his shoulder, a situations that contributed to the team's bad start, but he was healthy in the final part of the season and managed to average 17.1 points, an NBA best 12.4 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. |
He will still receive what the Lakers owe him for the final year of his contract ($7.7 million) but it falls off the team's salary-cap and luxury-tax computations. This way the Lakers save around $15 million in tax. Any team that is under the salary cap can submit an undisclosed bid to acquire World Peace, the winner amount will also be deducted from the Lakers debt. World Peace arrived as Ron Artest for the 2009-10 season. His role was to replace Trevor Ariza in the defending champions Lakers. He was a significant part of the team in the next four seasons, averaging 9.9 points and 4.0 rebounds during the season, 10.8 points and 4.0 rebounds in 41 playoff games and playing excellent defense, but nothing was more relevant than his clutch play in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals against the Celtics which included a key three-pointer in one of the greatest playoff wins in Lakers history. He had a good 2012-13 season despite the team's struggles. In his 14th year in the NBA he averaged 12.4 points (up from 7.7 in 2011-12) and 5.0 rebounds (up from 3.4) and improved his shooting percentages from the floor, 3-point line and foul line as well. But it was the Lakers final opportunity to use the Amnesty Clause and they could only use it on Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Steve Blake or World Peace. |
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Chris Duhon |
Earl Clark Despited the fact that Clark's bright young forward and the Lakers would have liked to keep him, they were not ready to offer a deal similar to the one he got from Cleveland. With the luxury tax, the $4 million he will receive in 2013-14 would have meant around $16-24 million for the Lakers. |
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Antawn Jamison |
Devin Ebanks |
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Darius Morris |
Andrew Goudelock |
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Assistant Coach Bernie Bickerstaff |
Assistant Coach Chuck Person |
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Assistant Coach Steve Clifford |
Assistant Coach Darvin Ham |
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Darius Johnson-Odom, Eric Boateng, Dan Gadzuric and Marcus Landry |
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They stay
Pau Gasol |
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Jodie Meeks It was an easy decision to make since he's inexpensive and was able to contribute last season. A good shooter, Meeks played in 78 games, averaging 7.9 points and 2.2 rebounds, shooting 38.7% from the field, 35.7% from behind the arc and 89.6% from the line. |
Robert Sacre As a rookie, the 7-foot center averaged 1.3 points and 1.1 rebounds in 32 games and also spent time with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA's D-League |
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Lakers Draft Picks:
The Lakers had just one draft pick in the 2013 NBA Draft | ||
Second Round: 48th pick, Ryan Kelly After trading their first round pick and others they temporarily owned the Lakers used their remaining pick to select Duke forward Ryan Kelly in the 2013 NBA Draft. Kelly is listed at 6 feet 11 and averaged 12.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocked shots as a senior. He shot 42% from three-point range, something that really fits in Mike D'Antoni's system. Because he is still recovering from a surgery done in April 2013 to repair a screw that was originally inserted in his right foot after he broke a bone in March 2012, Kelly will not play on the Lakers' summer-league. As a second round pick he does not have a guaranteed contract but with the Lakers current need to add inexpensive players he's expected to make the 2013-14 roster. |
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The Lakers haven't had a first-round pick since taking Javaris Crittenton in 2007. The Lakers temporarily owned these 2013 picks: |
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First Round: 19th pick, Sergey Karasev, |
First Round: 30th pick, Nemanja Nedovic |
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Second Round: 57th pick, Alex Oriakhi |
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