Vander Blue Forced to Wear #2 Jersey With a #1 Awkwardly Stitched On During Lakers Debut

Vander Blue in the purple and gold. pic.twitter.com/u5LHEXXAId
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 14, 2015

Vander Blue made his Los Angeles Lakers debut on Monday night. Blue, who has had short stints with the Rockets, Grizzlies, 76ers, Celtics, Spurs and Wizards since leaving Marquette in 2013, was signed on Monday to help fill the roster with physically able bodies.

If you assume Blue was an afterthought, you’re right. First, look at this portion of the ESPN boxscore for the game. He played 25-minutes last night and scored 7 points, but ESPN won’t even give him credit for entering the damn game. Perhaps that’s because the Lakers pretty clearly gave him a Wayne Ellington jersey with a one sewn in front of the two.

Looks like they gave Vander Blue a No. 2 jersey and then sewed on a "1" as an afterthought. pic.twitter.com/uvPJjYLYtz
— Paul Lukas (@UniWatch) April 14, 2015

The Lakers don’t even have a picture of him wearing a Lakers jersey. It is time for the regular season to end.