A defensive menace is headed to Los Angeles.
The Lakers signed two-time All-Defence member Matisse Thybulle to a one-year, $3.3-million contract, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on Monday.
Thybulle, 29, spent the previous three-and-a-half seasons with the Portland Path Blazers after starting his profession with four-and-a-half seasons as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers.
In 30 video games final season, the Australian registered 5.8 factors, two rebounds and two steals in 16 minutes per contest. Over 377 profession video games, he holds per-game averages of 5 factors, two rebounds and 1.6 steals.
A primary-round choose in 2019, Thybulle made the All-Defence second workforce in each 2021 and 2022 whereas with the 76ers.
He marks the newest transfer in a busy low season for the Lakers, who watched LeBron James go away however added Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili, Quentin Grimes, Collin Sexton and Kevon Looney.
