The Los Angeles Lakers not too long ago signed 2024 draft alternatives Dalton Knecht and Bronny James.
Chosen with the seventeenth general choose within the 2024 NBA Draft, Knecht (6’5”, 212) averaged 21.7 factors (45.8 FG%, 39.7 3P%, 77.2 FT%), 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 36 video games (all begins) final season on the College of Tennessee. The 2023-24 SEC Participant of the 12 months earned First Group All-America honors and ranked third within the convention in 3-point discipline purpose proportion final season. In 103 profession Division I video games (79 begins) throughout one marketing campaign at Tennessee and two seasons at Northern Colorado (2021-23), the guard averaged 16.9 factors (46.1 FG%, 38.3 3P%, 76.8 FT%), 5.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists.
James (6’2”, 210), drafted by the Lakers with the fifty fifth general choose, averaged 4.8 factors, 2.8 rebounds and a pair of.1 assists in 25 video games (six begins) in his lone season on the College of Southern California in 2023-24. Born in Akron, Ohio, the guard attended Sierra Canyon College in Los Angeles the place he was named a McDonald’s All-American following his senior season the place he averaged 13.8 factors, 5.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.8 steals.
Knecht will put on jersey No. 4 for the Lakers, whereas James will put on No. 9. Each might be in motion for the Purple and Gold’s summer time league workforce later this month.
