After a successful season with the Sacramento Kings, Damian Jones agreed to return to the Lakers on a veteran’s minimum deal. In fact, he cited his previous experience in the purple and gold across a pair of 10-day contracts towards the tail end of the 2020-21 campaign as reason for the mutual interest between the two parties.
However, it was his time in Sac-Town where Jones established himself as an NBA-caliber center, making more than 65% of his field goals and shot nearly league average from distance — albeit on a very small sample.