One of the players most linked to the Los Angeles Lakers as the NBA trade deadline approaches is Detroit Pistons forward Bojan Bogdanovic.
He’s one of the league’s premier 3-point shooting threats, and he’s shooting 41.6 percent from beyond the arc while taking 5.9 such attempts per game this season.
Bogdanovic is also a legitimate all-around scoring threat, as evidenced by his 21.4 points per game average and 48.7 percent overall shooting percentage this year.
The Pistons have placed a pretty high price tag on Bogdanovic, one which the Lakers have reportedly deemed too high.
Nonetheless, Bogdanovic told HoopsHype that the Pistons see him as being a part of their core past this season.
Via HoopsHype:
“Having conversations with the club, Troy (Weaver), and the owners, they assured me that we’re going to be great next year,” Bogdanovic told HoopsHype. “We have a lot of cap space to sign great players. We’re going to have a high pick again, so that’s going to help us a lot. We have a great young group of guys. When Cade (Cunningham) went down, that kind of hurt us big time. We were thinking that maybe we’d be fighting for the play-in tournament, but when he went down, he was our main guy. All of our offensive strategies were connected to him. When he went down, our season, we’ve had a lot of ups and downs without him.”
The Lakers badly need one or two more 3-point snipers, and if the Pistons were willing to let go of Bogdanovic for a fair price, he would be the ideal type of player to help fill that need.
