Coming out of Texas A&M as an undrafted free agent, Alex Caruso has spent most of his NBA career in the G-League. A season with the Oklahoma City minor league team became two seasons, under a 2-way contract, with the South Bay Lakers where he shuffled between the parent team and the SBL. If Caruso were a baseball player, at this point in his career most casual observers would describe him as a AAAA player — someone who was too good for the minors, but not quite a true major league guy.
He might also be the Lakers’ best option at point guard in a season that is already being billed as the one where they’re supposed to take the major step forward from lottery team to legitimate conference finals contender (and maybe even farther than that).