{"id":63786,"date":"2022-09-02T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pacific-notes-beverley-westbrook-saric-kings\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:04:59","slug":"pacific-notes-beverley-westbrook-saric-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pacific-notes-beverley-westbrook-saric-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Beverley, Westbrook, Saric, Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Since the <strong>Lakers<\/strong> traded for veteran point guard <strong>Patrick Beverley<\/strong>the future of 2021\/22 starter <strong>Russell Westbrook<\/strong> has seemed murky.  Mirjam Swanson of the Orange County Register wonders if the duo can actually share the floor together, or at the very least both stick around on the team this season.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson reads tea leaves in recent public statements from head coach <strong>Darwin Raw<\/strong> and team owner <strong>Jeanie Buss<\/strong> that seem to suggest they appreciate Westbrook and his contributions to the club last year.  Swanson writes that, because Beverley can function so well off the ball as a catch-and-shoot long range sniper, and can defend at least both guard positions, he could theoretically play alongside Westbrook, who tends to be significantly more ball-dominant.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more out of the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>with <strong>Donovan Mitchell<\/strong> headed to the Cavaliers, Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times opines that the <strong>Lakers<\/strong> could look to move Westbrook (and draft compensation) to the Jazz, who have already offloaded four of their best veteran players in separate deals this summer, including both their All-Stars.  Woike writes that combo forward <strong>Bojan Bogdanovic<\/strong> should be LA&#8217;s top priority, and also floats the possibility of adding some combination of <strong>Mike Conley<\/strong>, <strong>Jordan Clarkson<\/strong>, <strong>Malik Beasley<\/strong> and <strong>Rudy Gay<\/strong> into such a deal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>suns<\/strong> reserve big man <strong>Dario Saric<\/strong> missed all of the 2021\/22 season while he recovered from a ruptured ACL in his right knee collapsed in the first game of the 2021 Finals.  The 6&#8217;10\u201d big man played well during the Croatian national team&#8217;s FIBA \u200b\u200bEuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers in August, writes Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic.<\/li>\n<li>Three reserve point guards will be duking it out during the <strong>kings<\/strong>&#8216; training camp later this month.  James Ham of Kings Beat assesses each player in terms of their relative strengths and weaknesses on the current Sacramento roster.  As a former lottery pick, defensive-oriented second-year guard <strong>Davion Mitchell <\/strong>seems guaranteed to get some run behind pricey starter <strong>De&#8217;Aaron Fox<\/strong>.  Raw predicts that <strong>Quinn Cook<\/strong> could have an edge over <strong>Matthew Dellavedova<\/strong> as the team&#8217;s third point guard option.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Lakers traded for veteran point guard Patrick Beverleythe future of 2021\/22 starter Russell Westbrook has seemed murky. Mirjam Swanson of the Orange County Register wonders if the duo can actually share the floor together, or at the very least both stick around on the team this season. Swanson reads tea leaves in recent &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pacific-notes-beverley-westbrook-saric-kings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacific Notes: Beverley, Westbrook, Saric, Kings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68197,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-los-angeles-lakers-guard-patrick-beverley-super-excited-to-play-alongside-russell-westbrook\/","url_meta":{"origin":63786,"position":0},"title":"New Los Angeles Lakers guard Patrick Beverley &#8216;super excited&#8217; to play alongside Russell Westbrook","date":"September 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Patrick Beverley was still sweating from a workout at the Los Angeles Lakers' practice facility when Russell Westbrook delivered an assist.Westbrook interrupted Beverley's introductory news conference with reporters to toss him a towel, making sure his new backcourt teammate looked good.\"Love that brother,\" an appreciative Beverley\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57512,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/russell-westbrook-more-likely-to-be-off-lakers-active-roster-following-patrick-beverley-trade-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":63786,"position":1},"title":"Russell Westbrook &#8216;more likely&#8217; to be off Lakers&#8217; active roster following Patrick Beverley trade: report","date":"August 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! the Los Angeles Lakers' trade with the Utah Jazz for guard Patrick Beverley on Thursday was intriguing on a few fronts. 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