3 Lakers who won’t last the entire 2022-23 season with the team

3. Wenyen Gabriel

Wenyen Gabriel joined the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2021-22 season and I would bet that he joins another team at some point during the 2022-23 season. Gabriel is a prime candidate to be packaged alongside Walker in a potential deal or he could just be waived outright to make room for someone else.

Gabriel probably should have been the player that the Lakers included in the Talen Horton-Tucker trade for Patrick Beverley instead of Stanley Johnson. Los Angeles traded one of its only wings on the roster in favor of keeping a frontcourt player who fits oddly in this rotation.

Gabriel was fine last season as a contingency fill-in while Anthony Davis was hurt but with AD healthy and two new centers on the roster his place is a bit questionable. Gabriel is a power forward who cannot space the floor at all. He can play small-ball five, but that is not needed with Thomas Bryant and Damian Jones.

Los Angeles already has a player in-house that would add more to the team than Gabriel does. Cole Swider is a legitimate sharpshooter on a two-way contract and giving him the power forward minutes that Gabriel is getting would be far better for the team.

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Gabriel probably is not going to see many minutes in the rotation as is and his place on the Lakers roster definitely is not set in stone.