Brown Signed a Two-Year Deal With Lakers
Two-time NBA champion Shannon Brown completed a two-year agreement with LA Lakers on Wednesday. The athletic guard signed a 4,6 million dollars contract at the team’s training facility in El Segundo. Brown showed himself very happy to be given another chance to win the NBA for the third time in his career. “It (possibility of winning a three-peat) is pretty special. There are a lot of guys who came through this NBA, some lasted, some didn’t. Some played 15 years and can’t say they even made it to the Finals. The possibility of winning three NBA championships is something that will go down in history,” the 24-year-old added.
“All the rumors out there about everybody offering me $4 or $5 million and all of that, that’s not true. This is just the best situation for what was going on, a chance to win three NBA championships, in a great city to live in. Everything just felt right.” It was Kobe Bryant who also insisted the guard to sign the Lakers, just like he did in Steve Blake, Matt Barnes and Derek Fisher cases. “He definitely told me if I was to come back I was going to have a major role helping the bench. Helping the team was a major thing. I noticed Kobe likes to bring in guys he got into it with, who have that same feistiness. He really doesn’t have to say much more than that. He’s continuing to get better,” Brown said. Concerning his playing, Brown said he will focus now on skills, his run and jump not bothering his playing at the moment, but they will also be improved. “Obviously, everybody knows I can run and jump and all of that stuff.”
“Now it’s more about skills and being able to solidify myself as a basketball player instead of an athlete.” He also comes after a finger injury that once threatened surgery need, but Brown assured he feels fine now. “Just as expected, everything is fine. I’ve worked out with it. I’m able to dribble and catch and shoot the ball and all of that stuff. The doc said somebody put in the paper that I might need surgery and I guess that was recent. That’s not true. I might have said that when it first happened, and that was a possibility, but that’s gone out the window now. It’s healed up pretty well. Our bench has to come out and be able to produce and continue to make the team better when the starters are on the bench.”
As for the third chance to win the NBA with Lakers, this also claimed: “It’s definitely gonna be a difficult task. To do it two times in a row is difficult, but I know the third is gonna be even more tough. But we have guys on the team that have done it already, coaches that have done it already. We have a lot of things to look back at and to build on for this season. I think everybody is looking forward to the challenge.”
