LA Snoozes On Another Big-Name Buyout Market Signing

When the post-trade deadline buyout market began opening up last week, your Los Angeles Lakers pounced fairly early. LA snagged one of the top prospects in Spencer Dinwiddie, the former Brooklyn Nets combo guard who was shockingly cut by the Toronto Raptors upon being traded there at the deadline. Although there has been, well, scuttlebutt that the Lakers front office isn’t finished making new additions on the buyout market, the club has been remarkably quiet on that front in the intervening week, as several intriguing pieces have been claimed elsewhere. Sharpshooting stretch four Danilo Gallinari, now in the buyout market phase of his lengthy pro career at age 35, is just the latest such name. His agent aMichael Tellem of Excel Basketball has informed Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN that the 6’10” vet has agreed to terms on a rest-of-year deal to help out the newly struggling Milwaukee Bucks,