Last updated: 9/30/2019
Last updated: 9/30/2019
Last updated: 9/30/2019
2025 Free Agents - Cam Reddish
A top prospect in the 2018 high school class, Reddish took a backseat to Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett at Duke, and ended up being drafted 10th overall in 2019. Reddish was inconsistent in his early years in Atlanta, while also missing a good chunk of games due to injury, and eventually fell out of favor and bounced around from the Knicks, to the Trailblazers, and then the Lakers. Reddish started the '23-'24 season having possibly the best stretch of his career, starting most of the Lakers' games. However, that changed as the season went on, and Reddish ended up falling out of the rotation and didn't play at all in the 2024 playoffs. He struggled even more in the '24-'25 season, and ended up getting waived while not finishing the season on an NBA roster. Reddish has shown some ability to create for himself off the dribble, but hasn't done so efficiently. Efficiency isn't everything in that scenario, since sometimes it's just nice to have another creator to uplift bench units or just someone to go to who can get a decent shot off late in the shot clock, but Reddish hasn't even shown to be worth that kind of role. He has 52% true shooting thus far for his career, and is a 32% 3-point shooter. He struggles to finish at the rim, hitting under 60% of his attempts from there, according to Cleaning the Glass. He hasn't been effective from midrange either, hitting about 35% from there. Defensively, Reddish has good size for a wing at 6'8" with long arms, but hasn't consistently been a good defensive player. He misses too many rotations and has too many poor closeouts. He had some good moments as an on-ball defender for the Lakers, and posted a good steal rate, so he can be a bit disruptive on that end at least. Reddish is still only 25 years old, so there's a chance that a team could foresee significant growth in his upcoming years, and he still has good physical tools and the reputation as a top prospect, which can sometimes stick with a player for several years, but there's also a chance that the league is about ready to give up on him.
Summary
Reddish was waived by the Lakers mid-way through the season, and has yet to sign with another NBA team. Other teams will have multiple ways to sign Reddish as even teams without cap space could use the Non-Taxpayer MLE, Room MLE, Taxpayer MLE, or Bi-Annual Exception to sign him. It's also likely that Reddish only gets minimum offers, and he may not even get fully-guaranteed offers.
Cap Considerations
Kevin Knox (1 year non-guaranteed minimum, 2024) Torrey Craig (1+1 year minimum, 2023), Dante Exum (2 years, $6 million, 2023),