The Los Angeles Lakers are looking to add all the help they can over the season to improve the team’s chances of winning the NBA Championship in 2022. While at the moment, the Lakers might just be trying to adding depth with the covid-19 wave in the league, adding a valuable spinoff player for the playoffs would be huge.

Some signings, like Isaiah Thomas, are literally only for depth due to the covid-19 wave. While some want to see the Lakers bring Thomas in for the rest of the season, he’s not really adding anything new to LA.

Other signings could be on the way to the playoffs and one of those potential signings is Danuel House. House was recently released by the Houston Rockets, who converted Garrison Mathews to a four-year, $ 8 million NBA contract. Due to House’s status on rival Rockets teams of the past, he’s become someone Laker fans want to see in LA.

However, Danuel House would add nothing to the Los Angeles Lakers.

I’m all for the Los Angeles Lakers to make additions if something doesn’t work. However, the team has made it clear that they are limiting their spending to some extent, as they are above the luxury tax threshold. That’s the only reason the Lakers signed an unsecured contract with Avery Bradley: so they can release him without having to pay his full salary.

Bradley is the only Lakers player the team can release without essentially adding a whole new contract to the books and while he hasn’t been great this season, the Lakers shouldn’t release him for Danuel House.

So the Lakers should free someone like Kent Bazemore to make room for House. And as bad as Bazemore has been, House just isn’t good enough to justify the luxury tax payments the team is obviously trying to avoid.

House was a valuable three-point shooter for the Houston Rockets when James Harden was in MVP form, but since then House hasn’t done much for Houston. Since the start of the 2019-20 season, House has been shooting 35.4% from beyond the arc and 41.2% from the field.

House doesn’t do anything on offense other than shoot three and he doesn’t even do it well. The last thing the Lakers need is another one-dimensional offensive player who doesn’t even make the dimension he’s supposed to be good at.

House is not very good defensively either. While not that great, he’s been below par for the past two seasons and wouldn’t have a tangible impact on the Lakers’ perimeter defense. He wouldn’t be better than someone like Bazemore, who we talked about, who was playing very poorly.

If this movement was absolutely free, then of course why not. Take it deep until a better option presents itself. But due to the luxury tax implications and the team’s desire not to spend a lot, it’s clear Danuel House doesn’t make much sense to the Los Angeles Lakers.