With the Lakers’ D’Angelo Russell representing the final Buckeye to be ousted from the NBA playoffs, we look at how each former OSU player performed in the league this season.
The former Ohio State star guard and No. 2 overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft was reunited with the team that drafted him as Russell was traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Lakers before the trade deadline. After averaging nearly 18 points and more than six assists per game as a fourth-year member of the Minnesota roster, Russell’s numbers hardly dipped in LA, where he put up 17.4 points and 6.1 dimes in 17 regular-season appearances.
Russell also helped the Lakers climb from 13th place in the Western Conference at the All-Star Break to seventh place at the end of the regular season, ultimately winning their play-in game to earn a spot in the playoffs. Russell and the Lakers beat the Memphis Grizzlies and Golden State Warriors in back-to-back series to draw a matchup with the top-seeded Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals, but were swept in four games.
Russell started the first 15 games of the Lakers’ playoff run but was benched in Monday’s final game of the season, in which he scored just four points in 15 minutes. Russell averaged only 13.3 points per game in the playoffs compared to his 17.8 points per game across the regular season.
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