With acquisitions of Trevor Ariza, Dwight Howard, Wayne Ellington and Kent Bazemore, a lot of people were wondering just how old the current Lakers are in historical context - well, here's an answer:
After trading for 32-year old Russell Westbrook, and acquiring 36-year old Trevor Ariza, 32-year old Kent Bazemore, 33-year old Wayne Ellington, and 35-year old Dwight Howard through free agency, combined with the 5 returning members under contract for next season, the LA Lakers currently have a 9-man roster with an average age of 33.0. Their oldest player as of now is 36-year old LeBron James and their youngest player is 28-year old Anthony Davis.
This comfortably beats out the 2015-16 San Antonio Spurs (31.6 yr) for the oldest team (in terms of average age) in the last 15 seasons. That Spurs team had 39-year old Tim Duncan as their oldest player and 22-year old Kyle Anderson as their youngest.
Here are a couple of other interesting facts as a bonus:
- Even if the Lakers re-sign 20-year old Talen Horton-Tucker, they'd still be ahead of the Spurs for the oldest team in such span with an average roster age of 31.7 years old.
- The Lakers will maintain this record if their next 6 players acquired (that complete the 15-man roster) have an average age over 29.5.
- The Lakers will become the 8th team in the same span (last 17 seasons) to have an average roster age of 30 or more years old if their next 6 players acquired (that complete the 15-man roster) have an average age over 25.5.
- If the above scenario is fulfilled, LeBron James will have been part of 4 of the 8 oldest teams in the last 17 seasons ('22 Lakers, '14 Heat, '13 Heat, '11 Heat).
- The 7 teams prior to this season who had an average roster age above 30 years old have had very different results - 1 suffered a 1st Round exit ('10 Mavericks), 2 suffered a 2nd Round exit ('13 Knicks, '16 Spurs), 1 suffered a Conference Finals exit ('08 Spurs), 2 lost in the Finals ('11 Heat, '14 Heat) and 1 won a title ('13 Heat).
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