Eyes are turning to potentially available free agents and buyout candidates if the Los Angeles Lakers are looking to change their team between now and the postseason. The Lakers stood pat at the NBA trade deadline and saw the neighboring Los Angeles Clippers cash in their chips for Marcus Morris, which makes many believe the Lakers will need to make another move.
One of those rumored moves could be recently retired point guard Darren Collison. The Lakers were rumored to have interest in Detroit’s Derrick Rose and Oklahoma City’s Dennis Schröder, so Collison fits the bill as a potential back-up point guard. However, the question of whether Collison actually comes back is still a legitimate one.
During a special three-hour edition of ESPN’s The Jump, Matt Barnes relayed a text message he received from Collison on air saying that he was still “50-50” on whether he would come out of retirement at all.
A couple of reports pegged the Lakers as frontrunners for Collison but it’s not a certainty that he wants to come out of retirement for what would certainly be a pressure-packed playoff run, no matter which L.A. team he chooses.
