北京时间8月23日，NBA洛杉矶湖人官方宣布，球队正式签下中国球员易建联，后者将身披11号球衣征战新赛季。
据此前媒体报道，易建联此番重返NBA的薪水将达到800万美元。在刚刚结束的里约奥运会男篮比赛中，虽然中国男篮全败出局，但作为核心出战的易建联表现抢眼，场均贡献20.4分，6.6个篮板，1.4个助攻，1.4次抢断以及1次封盖。
易建联是2007年的NBA六号秀，在代表雄鹿、奇才、篮网以及小牛的5个赛季中，易建联场均得到7.9分，4.9个篮板以及0.7次封盖。
他于2012年回CBA广东队，帮助球队夺得2013年总冠军，他本人也第二次当选总决赛MVP。
A little concern about it as NBA is completely different from the China national team where he is the undisputable center and can play any way he wants and as long as he needs, that is where his statistics came from. In NBA, he certainly will not be given that much of show time. He will face the same challenge 4 years ago - how to demonstrate his capacities and values to the team within a very short time of playing in the court. And making it more difficult, this time, the expectation is even higher than the last time.
