Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images The Lakers had to waive someone in order to make the trade happen, and they chose forward/center Christian Wood ...

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.

The Los Angeles Lakers are signing free-agent center Alex Len, the team announced Tuesday. The 7-foot, 250-pound big provides the Lakers with much-needed size and physicality after the nixed Mark ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the plan, for now, is to see how Finney-Smith looks with the group, get their injured frontcourt players back (Jaxson Hayes, Jarred Vanderbilt and Christian Wood) and continue to assess the ...

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 ...

Wood has not played a single minute for L.A. this season as he was recovering from knee surgery. The 29-year-old was in his second year in L.A. after he signed with the team in Sept. 2023. He was ...

Mudarris said she was “beyond blind-sighted" by the ordeal. Yasmine Lopez, LA Lakers star Christian Wood's ex-girlfriend, sympathized with Mudarris, saying she went through a similar situation.