Anthony Davis signed a 186M extension, the Lakers star message to Darvin Ham

The Los Angeles Lakers superstar Anthony Davis earlier this offseason got to sign a three-year 186 million extension, and according to GM Rob Pelinka, this was to make him the face of the franchise in years to come.

Davis knows it, and while he is willing to make sacrifices for the team, he also wants to win another championship title and to do that, he wants to play more at four, where he feels more comfortable than at five.

Because of that, AD sent a message to Darvin Ham by asking the front office led by Pelinka to give him help at the center role and now the team has answered with the signings of Jaxson Hayes and Christian Wood.

Davis told the Lakers he wanted more support at center so he wouldn’t have to play the position so much during the regular season, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “Sources told ESPN that Davis made it clear to the organization he wanted to have more support at the center so he wouldn’t have to play so much 5 during the regular season,” McMenamin wrote.

Anthony Davis played at center in the last season

Davis has played the center position a lot over the past two seasons for the Lakers. In the 2021-22 regular season, he played 76 percent of his minutes at center, according to Basketball Reference. Moreover, in the 2022-23 regular season, he played nearly 100 percent of minutes at center. That’s a major flip from just a few years ago – like the 2020-21 regular season – when he played 91 percent of his minutes at power forward. The Lakers won the championship title in 2020 with AD as the PF instead of being the team's five.