Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt worked on his jumper while being injured and is trusting that work in games.

Vanderbilt is not in the Lakers' starting lineup against the Nets on Monday, Mike Trudell of Spectrum SportsNet reports. Vanderbilt started in Saturday's loss against the Celtics. He will retreat to the bench Monday while the Lakers go with a starting five of Luka Doncic,

Fans have decided on a new nickname for Vanderbilt. They have decided to call him Vincent Van Doe because of his ability to do all of the dirty work. It seems that Vanderbilt approves of the nickname. When asked about it, he seems to like it.

Jarred Vanderbilt spent three of his NBA seasons in a Timberwolves uniform, including two alongside star guard Anthony Edwards. Nowadays, though, the former teammates haven't been so friendly to each other.

The return of Jarred Vanderbilt in recent weeks has shown the Los Angeles Lakers what they were missing when he was out for nearly a year. Vanderbilt isn’t gonna fill up the statsheet, but what he is gonna do is all the little things and dirty work,

Vanderbilt finished Saturday's 111-101 loss to the Celtics with four points (2-5 FG, 0-1 3Pt, 0-1 FT), eight rebounds, two assists and two steals in 29 minutes.

The Lakers will not have Jaxson Hayes starting at center -- or playing at all -- in Saturday's game against the Celtics.

The Los Angeles Lakers are without LeBron James, Jaxson Hayes and Dorian Finney-Smith against the Brooklyn Nets.

Several familiar faces greeted Dorian Finney-Smith in the Barclays Center tunnels on Monday following the Los Angeles Lakers ’ 111-108 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. Among them was Nets general manager Sean Marks, who traded Finney-Smith two months earlier.

Noah Clowney anotó 19 puntos y los Nets de Brooklyn vencieron el lunes por la noche 111-108 a Los Ángeles en el primer partido de los Lakers desde

The Nets beat the Lakers 111-108 in a game in which Los Angeles was missing one of its best players in LeBron James, but still had Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves available to make things interesting. Forward Noah Clowney came off Brooklyn's bench to put up 19 points and five rebounds in his second game back after a 1-month layoff with a left ankle sprain while birthday boy Keon Johnson poured in 18 points,

Luka Doncic makes a late three-pointer, but the turnover-prone Lakers can't get a stop in the final seconds and suffer a 111-108 loss to the Brooklyn Nets.