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Robert Marvi

Pistons told Bojan Bodganovic he’s part of their long-term plan

One of the players most linked to the Los Angeles Lakers as the NBA trade deadline approaches is Detroit Pistons forward Bojan Bogdanovic.

He’s one of the league’s premier 3-point shooting threats, and he’s shooting 41.6 percent from beyond the arc while taking 5.9 such attempts per game this season.

Bogdanovic is also a legitimate all-around scoring threat, as evidenced by his 21.4 points per game average and 48.7 percent overall shooting percentage this year.

The Pistons have placed a pretty high price tag on Bogdanovic, one which the Lakers have reportedly deemed too high.

Nonetheless, Bogdanovic told HoopsHype that the Pistons see him as being a part of their core past this season.

Via HoopsHype:

“Having conversations with the club, Troy (Weaver), and the owners, they assured me that we’re going to be great next year,” Bogdanovic told HoopsHype. “We have a lot of cap space to sign great players. We’re going to have a high pick again, so that’s going to help us a lot. We have a great young group of guys. When Cade (Cunningham) went down, that kind of hurt us big time. We were thinking that maybe we’d be fighting for the play-in tournament, but when he went down, he was our main guy. All of our offensive strategies were connected to him. When he went down, our season, we’ve had a lot of ups and downs without him.”

The Lakers badly need one or two more 3-point snipers, and if the Pistons were willing to let go of Bogdanovic for a fair price, he would be the ideal type of player to help fill that need.

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