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The Lakers have selected 22-year old forward Derek Caracter with the 58th overall pick of the NBA Draft. Caracter played in 27 games (22 starts) at Utep in which he averaged 14.1 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game. He played in 80 games (36 starts) in college and he averaged 10.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 0.6 assists per game. The Lakers don’t have a ton of depth on the roster so Caracter could get some P.T. in 2010-11.
The Lakers have selected 20-year old forward Devin Ebanks with the 43rd overall pick of the NBA Draft. Ebanks played in 34 games last season for West Virginia and he averaged 12.0 points, 8.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game. He played in 69 games in his college career and he averaged 11.2 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. Ebanks could get some minutes off the bench for the Lakers in 2010-11 but he will likely be brought along slowly.
The Lakers have the #43 and #58 picks in tomorrow night’s NBA Draft. They will likely take the best player available if they even make the picks. They sold their first round pick last season so who knows what the Lakers will do. Drafting a point guard would make some sense only because Derek Fisher and Jordan Farmar are both free agents.
The Lakers only pick in the NBA Draft Chinemelu Elonu has decided to play in Spain this season. He signed a two year deal to play overseas but he can get out of it after 1 year. Elonu wasn’t going to play much with the Lakers so this was a smart move for him.
The Lakers finally selected a player with the 59th pick in the NBA Draft. They sold their first round pick to the Knicks for $3 million bucks and they traded their first pick of the 2nd round to the Heat. The Lakers will use the money from the Knicks to help re-sign Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza. The 22-year old Elonu played in 90 games at Texas A&M and he averaged 5.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game. He will take a lot of time to develop.
