In a widely-expected bit of bookkeeping, the Los Angeles Lakers announced Tuesday they had exercised team options to keep Larry Nance Jr. and Brandon Ingram for the 2018-19 season. The move will keep the 2015 and 2016 first round picks, respectively, in purple and gold until at least the summer of 2019.
Ingram is off to a mixed start to the current campaign. He scored a career-high 25 points in the Lakers’ win over the Phoenix Suns, but has scored just 12 and seven points in the team’s other two contests while only shooting 39.