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Jared Dudley wants to return to Lakers

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After winning his first NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers, veteran forward Jared Dudley became a free agent. He thinks that he could still be useful for the defending champions and would like to come back next season.

Dudley described his relationship with the Lakers as a ‘perfect marriage’, because both sides get what they need from one another. According to Dudley, he can help the team by being another coach on the sideline. He can also be useful on the court, but the Lakers have better players on the roster.

Per Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen & Roll:

“You never know what (the future) holds, but it’s just such a perfect marriage between me and the Lakers. It’s a championship team, and you need veteran experience on the bench. I’m in the later part of my career where it’s like having another coach on the bench, but at the same time if you look at the analytics side — if you’re big into analytics — you look at my plus-minus, you look at my defensive rating, offensive rating when I’m in there, I can still play.

“Now, on this team I don’t need to because we have better players than me, but for a team that is going to miss guys throughout the year through resting, through whatever, potentially corona, it’s good to have vets towards the end to be able to help out.”

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This will be Dudley’s fourteenth season in the league. Last season, he averaged 1.5 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.6 assists during 8.1 minutes per game. Dudley appeared in 45 regular season games and eight playoff games.

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