These concerns have highlighted one crucial missing piece: Christian Wood. Wood picked up his player option in the offseason to rejoin the Lakers. The goal was to be an effective rotational piece ...

Christian Wood’s strings of bad luck ended with a “kiss of death” on Tuesday, Feb. 11, when the Los Angeles Lakers waived him to sign free agent center Alex Len. An unsuspecting Wood replied ...

The Lakers waived Wood (knee) on Tuesday, NBA reporter Chris Haynes reports. The big man was waived in order to make room for veteran center Alex Len, who signed with the club on Tuesday.

Dalton Knecht and Cam Reddish returned to L.A. and their only center options now are Jaxson Hayes, the injured Christian Wood and two-way bigs Christian Koloko and Trey Jemison III. Clearly ...

day to day (personal), Christian Wood: out (knee), Bronny James: day to day (illness), Jalen Hood-Schifino: day to day (hamstring). Nets: Cam Thomas: out (hamstring), Bojan Bogdanovic: day to day ...

Christian Wood is coming off a year where he appeared in 50 games for the Los Angeles Lakers. He averaged 6.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists per contest while shooting 46.6% from the field ...

The Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with Christian Wood in order to make room for their new signing. Alex Len, a seven-foot center, suddenly became the Lakers’ target after their trade plans with ...

Waiving Christian Wood was a bigger statement than signing Len. Wood’s talent has never been in question—he’s a floor-spacing big who can score at all three levels. But talent only matters ...

Due to the Williams trade failing, the Lakers didn't have an extra roster spot and decided to waive Christian Wood to accommodate Len. Wood was clearly not anticipating this, as he told Lakers ...

To make room for the recently-signed Alex Len, the Lakers waived Christian Wood. It was an easy choice. Len is healthy, and Wood hasn't played all season. Wood is very far removed from his 21 ...

To make room for Len, the franchise reportedly waived 29-year-old floor-spacing forward Christian Wood. "Free agent 7-footer Alex Len will sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, agent Mike Lelchitski ...