Dorian Finney-Smith began the 2024-25 NBA season playing for the Brooklyn Nets.
During the middle of the year, he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a deal for D’Angelo Russell.
Finney-Smith finished the season with averages of 8.7 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists per contest while shooting 44.8% from the field and 41.1% from the three-point range in 63 games (40 starts).
This summer, the 32-year-old can become a free agent.
He has a player option in his contract for the 2025-26 season at $15.4 million.
Finney-Smith helped the Lakers finish as the third seed in the Western Conference with a 50-32 record.
However, they lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the 2025 NBA playoffs (in five games).
Finney-Smith has spent nine NBA seasons with the Lakers, Nets (and Dallas Mavericks).
His career averages are 8.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.4 assists per contest while shooting 43.6% from the field and 36.2% from the three-point range in 591 games
Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most dominant players in NBA history.
The best tenure of his career came when he won three straight titles with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers (2000-02).
After the Lakers lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the NBA playoffs, O’Neal made a strong statement about his former team.
O’Neal played eight total seasons with the Lakers.
He made the NBA All-Star Game in seven of those years
