When the Los Angeles Lakers signed Gabe Vincent to a three-year, $33 million deal in July 2023, they hoped he’d be the same excellent postseason role player — 12.7 points and 3.5 assists per game in the 2022-23 playoffs — he was for the Miami Heat.
But LA did not get its money’s worth when Vincent missed most of the 2023-24 season with an injury.
Bleacher Report’s Eric Pincus wrote that his contract is one that the Lakers “will regret most.”
“While Vincent’s contract isn’t long, he missed most of his first year with the Lakers and shot 10.7 percent from three-point range in 11 regular season games,” Pincus wrote in a September 6 story on each team’s most onerous contract. “L.A.’s budget was so tight that it couldn’t add free agents on standard contracts this offseason (outside of its two drafted players).”
Pincus looked for a silver lining, writing, “Vincent may bounce back with a healthy season.”
