The Los Angeles Lakers were hit with several injuries at the start of the season as Christian Wood and Jarred Vanderbilt didn’t make their 2024-25 debuts.

These concerns have highlighted one crucial missing piece: Christian Wood. Wood picked up his player option in the offseason to rejoin the Lakers. The goal was to be an effective rotational piece ...

The Lakers’ decision to sign Alex Len and waive Christian Wood isn’t just a routine roster move—it’s a statementabout Wood’s standing in the NBA. While most of the attention is on how ...

Christian Wood’s strings of bad luck ended with a “kiss of death” on Tuesday, Feb. 11, when the Los Angeles Lakers waived him to sign free agent center Alex Len. An unsuspecting Wood replied ...

Waiving Christian Wood was a bigger statement than signing Len. Wood’s talent has never been in question—he’s a floor-spacing big who can score at all three levels. But talent only matters ...

Wood has not played a single minute for L.A. this season as he was recovering from knee surgery. The 29-year-old was in his second year in L.A. after he signed with the team in Sept. 2023. He was ...

The Christian Wood experiment in Los Angeles has officially ended, with the Lakers waiving the veteran big man to make room for 7-footer Alex Len. ESPN’s Shams Charania first reported the move ...

It is contingency time for the Los Angeles Lakers after their trade for big man Mark Williams was rescinded because of a failed physical, and one option could be waiving a player on the current ...