Goalkeeper Marcus Smart has accepted a contract repurchase with the Washington Wizards and plans to sign an $ 11 million agreement over two years with the Los Angeles Lakers after cleaning the exemptions, sources told ESPN on Saturday.
Smart, the defensive player of the year in 2022 and a member of the first team of the first defense three times, will have a player option on his new Lakers agreement to conclude a free agency of 2026 more Flush, sources said.
The Lakers All-Nba star, Luka Doncic, has set out to Smart and clearly indicated that he wanted to play with the faithful bidirectional, sources said.
The planned move serves as a return to a large scene for Smart, which made the playoffs in each of its first nine seasons of the NBA with the Boston Celtics. He has missed the playoffs in the past two years in Memphis and Washington.
Smart has also been limited to 54 games in the past two seasons due to injuries, especially on his right finger last season, and he has an average of 20 minutes of career per game in 2024-25.
The Lakers, Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks have seriously continued Smart, who received permission to speak to the teams and had positive conversations with the staff of the three teams, said sources.
After losing Dorian Finney-Smith, a point of attack, Wing Defender was a major position of need for Lakers.
