Via Hoopshype
The Lakers may not be done adding players to their frontcourt. Free agent center Jelani McCoy is currently working out at the team’s facility with the coaching staff, Andrew Bynum, Chris Mihm and Josh Powell, agent Giovanni Funiciello told HoopsHype.com.
“We are waiting on some other clubs that have shown interest in Jelani,” Funiciello said. “We shall see our next move. He has lucrative offers overseas, but we have looked more towards the NBA… Not to say if something very interesting comes our way we wouldn’t entertain it.”
McCoy, who was a member of the last Laker championship team back in 2002, averaged 0.5 ppg and 0.8 bpg last season in six games with the Denver Nuggets.
I have a soft spot for Jelani McCoy so hopefully he finds a way onto someone’s roster. Good athlete, good rebounder, solid defender, little bit dumb. He’d be a capable 5th big or very good 6th big in the rotation, in other words he’s a deep insurance player. The Lakers already have those spots manned with Powell and Mihm … I’m not convinced McCoy can beat them out for anything. Something different rather than something better. Not much point in signing him.
Jelani McCoy is repeating Corie Blount a few years back. Signed by the Lakers for a couple of days in the summer and then waived before training camp begins.