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The Ukrainian center Alex Len signed a free agent agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA club announced on Tuesday after a previous trade against Mark Williams failed. Len, a 31 -year -old seven -feet (2.13 m) during his 12th NBA campaign, joined Lakers, his sixth NBA club, only three days after being released by Washington. The Lakers had agreed with Charlotte’s Hornets for us seven feet Williams on the NBA trade deadline last week, but the great man would have failed a physique and trade would have been canceled.
This left the Lakers needing a great man to play alongside the superstars Luka Donnon and LeBron James after the departure of Anthony Davis in an agreement with Dallas who sent the Slovenian goalkeeper to Los Angeles.
The answer came to Len, who would have been close to signing with the Pacers of Indiana before the arrival of the opportunity of the Lakers.
Len was the fifth global choice of the NBA 2013 draft by Phoenix, where he spent five seasons before spending Atlanta, Sacramento, Toronto and Washington before returning to Sacramento for 3.5 seasons until Washington is As part of the trade agreement with three week -long teams.
Len has an average career of 6.7 points and 5.3 rebounds out of 680 NBA appearances and only started five games in the last three seasons. He has an average of 1.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per match for Sacramento this season.
The Lakers, who released the injured striker Christian Wood to make room for Len, are 32-19 and fourth from the west conference with a sequence of six-game victories.
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