Skylar Mays is the Lakers new player, this is the reason why is a great move by LA

Lakers' latest singing Skylar Mays can become an underrated pickup that has been signed as a two-way deal after the team waived Alex Fudge and D'Moi Hodge. Mays is a point guard who has been playing in the NBA and even this season faced the Lakers with the Portland Trail-Blazers.

This signing is important because the Lakers only have D'Angelo Russell as their point guard, and he has been sent to the bench to come off it in games instead of being a starter. The other team's point guard is Gabe Vincent but he has been out for more than 30+ years.

Skylar Mays is an emergency point guard now that Vincent is out and will be until the middle of February, meanwhile, the team needs another playmaker and while isn't a star, Mays is a helpful player who isn't using the team's 15th spot as he signed a two-way deal.

The Lakers faced Mays earlier in the season when he was part of the Portland Trail-Balzers. On his matchup vs the Lakers this season, Skylar scored 15 PTS, 4 REB, 12 AST, and 1 TO with 7/13 FG.

Jeanie Buss sent a lengthy text message to Darvin Ham as support

The Athletic's Sam Amick recently reported that: “Unlike the [Frank] Vogel situation, where Buss was known to believe the former coach was largely to blame for the failed integration of Russell Westbrook and ultimately greenlighted his April 2022 firing as a result, all signs point to the Lakers’ most important decision-maker standing by the coach who is in the second year of a four-year deal,” Amick added “There’s a mutual respect in that relationship, one that resulted in Buss sending a lengthy text message of support to Ham in the wake of Thursday’s report in The Athletic that chronicled the rising pressure that surrounds him. Buss could certainly change her stance, of course, but the current state of affairs suggests Ham still has time to turn this around.”