Los Angeles Lakers: 2 free-agent targets who played for Frank Vogel

2. Jeff Green

Jeff Green is not only a player who previously played under Frank Vogel but he is also a former teammate of LeBron James. After not having anyone to rely on in the playoffs when Anthony Davis got hurt, LeBron could petition to get Green on the team and his experience with Vogel would be the icing on the cake.

It is not like Green and LeBron had some great relationship or played together for a long time, because they didn’t, but LeBron certainly saw what Green did in the playoffs for the Brooklyn Nets. Green is not an elite player by any stretch of the imagination but he is exactly the kind of player a contending team wants.

Like Fournier, Green is a true three and D player. While he is not as good of a defender as Fournier and that could strip the true three and D title away from him, he is rather one-dimensional and that is all he would provide. Luckily, that is all the Lakers need.

More importantly, though, Green is a microwave. He is someone who can and has gone on insane heat checks where he takes over a portion of a playoff game and can legitimately swing the outcome of the game.

It does not always happen, but these big moments from role players like Green are the moments that can swing an entire playoff series. While his overall numbers may not have been great in the NBA Playoffs, he did have a 27-point performance against the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5.

Green is not someone who should be playing over 30 minutes a game, which is what the Nets were asking of him in the playoffs.

But as someone who plays 15-20 minutes with the potential to have a 30-minute game when he is hot, Jeff Green is perfect.