Free specialist forward/focus Christian Wood has settled on a two-year, $5.7 million arrangement with the Los Angeles Lakers that incorporates a player choice for the 2024-25 season, according to report

Wood has an opportunity to add to a Western Gathering competitor and reestablish his worth in the commercial center for a re-visitation of free organization in 2024 – – and the Lakers get a gifted enormous man who’ll give them huge bleeding edge flexibility and profundity.

Anthony Davis will likely be required to play fewer minutes at center this season due to Wood’s arrival and the free agent signing of Jaxson Hayes, a 7-footer.

Wood found the middle value of 16.6 places and 7.3 bounce back for the Dallas Dissidents in 2022-23, including a 30-point, 8-bounce back, 4-take execution in a Christmas Day triumph over the Lakers.

The Lakers benefit from Wood’s ability to stretch the floor in the frontcourt, who turns 28 later this month. He was one of four players 6-foot-10 or taller to make 100 3-pointers in every one of the beyond two seasons, as per reports . The others were Nikola Vucevic, Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr.

Wood has found the middle value of 38% on 3-pointers over the beyond four seasons and joins a Lakers group that shot just 34% last season, 25th in the association.

Wood comes to L.A. in the wake of expenditure a season with the Nonconformists and the past two with the Houston Rockets.