NBA Free Agency 2017: 5 offseason targets for the Los Angeles Lakers

3. Brandon Rush, Minnesota Timberwolves

Rush would be purely a shooting addition to this Lakers team. The 31-year-old wing would be filling the same role he’s filled for most of his career: play a handful of minutes every night, shoot only 3-pointers and make as many of those open 3s as you humanly can. The former Warrior can fill that role pretty well, having attempted 1,300 3s in his career and made 40 percent of them.

On a great defensive team like the one in Golden State, advanced stats painted Rush as a good defender. He posted a 1.8 Defensive Box Plus-Minus in 2014-15. Granted, he only appeared in 33 games that season in Steve Kerr’s carousel rotation, but Walton does similar things, having learned from Kerr in Golden State.

Rush will serve the dual purpose on this team of being both a floor-spacer and a veteran voice in the locker room. Most players that get to this journeyman stage of their career don’t actually produce much on the court. But Rush has played for four teams in his career, knows his way around the league, and can also make shots and execute defensively. He can also slide down to small forward and back up Brandon Ingram, which is the Lakers’ biggest position of need at this point. There’s no reason a small, one-year deal to reunite Walton and Rush wouldn’t work.