Lakers head coach Frank Vogel made it pretty clear that the team was interested in bringing Stanley Johnson back on Monday after the forward’s original 10-day contract expired, even if he stopped short of explicitly saying so.
But in case anyone had any lingering doubts about a Johnson return being fairly inevitable, Dave McMenamin of ESPN reports that there is “mutual interest” in Johnson putting on the purple and gold again:
Non hardship exemption 10-day contracts cannot be given out, per league rules, until Jan. 5. So Johnson cannot be with the Lakers on Tuesday against SAC.