On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers made two trades to move up from the No. 55 pick and gain the draft rights to Adou Thiero, an athletic wing from the University of Arkansas.
But they didn’t stop working after those two deals. They went ahead and signed Eric Dixon, a 6-foot-8, 24-year-old big man from Villanova University, to a two-way contract after he went undrafted. Dixon led the NCAA in scoring this past season with an average of 23.3 points a game.
The Lakers are also reportedly set to sign Augustas Marčiulionis, a point guard from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., to an Exhibit 10 deal. He is the son of Šarūnas Marčiulionis, a former NBA guard who is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The younger Marčiulionis played four years of college basketball, and he averaged 14.2 points, 5.9 assists and 1.3 steals a game while shooting 44.6% from the field and 34.7% from 3-point range this past season.
Like his father, he is originally from Lithuania, where he played for Rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) before coming to the United States. He is 23 years of age and was named the West Coast Conference (WCC) Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons.