Earlier on Saturday, Michael Scotto of Hoopshype broke the information that the Los Angeles Lakers had lastly realized they’re somewhat quick on wings, and had thus introduced in free brokers Jeremy Lamb, Dwayne Bacon, Miye Oni and Shabazz Muhammad for exercises lately. Shortly afterward, he adopted that up with another report that Isaiah Thomas, Armoni Brooks, Sharife Cooper and Mychal Mulder had additionally labored out for the group.

Usually this is able to be fairly customary, useless days of the offseason information as groups look to fill out their ultimate roster spots. The one complication on this particular case? Thomas quickly took to Twitter to disclaim he ever participated in such a exercise:

That is sensible in some methods, as a result of the Lakers have already had Isaiah Thomas on their group twice with Rob Pelinka as common supervisor, as soon as once they traded for his contract to clear cap area for LeBron James in 2018, and as soon as on a 10-day contract whereas the group was ravaged by well being and security protocols absences final season. It might be fairly bizarre in the event that they wanted to see him in an open health club setting to guage what he might or couldn’t deliver at this level.

Nonetheless, that is the group that has hosted roughly 97 exercises and recruiting dinners for Darren Collison, so who is aware of. Possibly Pelinka simply actually loves watching tiny guards play. It might actually clarify why the Lakers proceed to signal so many.

However I digress. I attempted to consider doable causes for actually anybody to lie about an Isaiah Thomas September free-agent exercise in 2022 and now my mind hurts, so we’ll simply chalk this as much as Schrodinger’s exercise, because it’s unlikely to imply a lot of something both method.

All that apart, do any of those names excite you in any respect for the group’s ultimate open coaching roster spot? Be happy to hold forth within the feedback under.

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