Lakers

Jordan Hill contract extension

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Lakers decided to extend the contract of Jordan Hill. Hill is one of the Lakers players, whose contracts expire this season.

According to a source, Hill get a new contract with a term of three years and $ 8 million. Lakers get the hill last season as a supplement after sending Derek Fisher for the Houston Rockets.

After getting on the Hill last season, but the player's contribution Basketball United States is not optimal. He was only able to play as much as seven times and is averaging 4.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.

The presence of Steve Nash is one of the reasons Hill remained in the Lakers. "Hill is delighted to be a team with Steve Nash and win the respect of Kobe Bryant," the agency Hill, Kevin Bradbury.

"The decision Mitch Kupchak and Mike Brown, he last year, Hill was to have unfinished business with the Lakers and could not wait to compete for the championship," he said.

But the basketball player of 25 years will not be easy to get the main points of the Lakers. He must deal with two big man Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, who has always been a pillar in the ring Brown.

Hill is an NBA draft choice of the number eight, who was recruited by the New York Knicks of the 2009 season. After that, players of this counter as high as 2:08 before Rockets took off to be hired by the Lakers