The Los Angeles Lakers are moving guard D’Angelo Russell and Maxwell Lewis to the Brooklyn Nets for Dorian Finney-Smith, Shake Milton, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.
The Lakers are sending their own second-round picks in 2027, 2030 and 2031 to the Nets, sources told ESPN.
Russell, the second overall pick in the 2015 draft, is averaging 12.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists in 26.3 minutes per game this season. The 28-year-old point guard returns to the Nets, where he played for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons, when he earned his only All-Star selection.
The move gives the Lakers a versatile, 3-and-D player in Finney-Smith, 31, who is averaging 10.4 points and 4.6 rebounds this season for the Nets, with whom he’s played since arriving in the Kyrie Irving trade from the Dallas Mavericks in February 2023.