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Lakers’ Wesley Johnson enters frustrating part of his life -- again

Lakers small forward Wesley Johnson tries to steal the ball from Boston Celtics point guard Avery Bradley during the Lakers' win back in February.

Lakers small forward Wesley Johnson tries to steal the ball from Boston Celtics point guard Avery Bradley during the Lakers’ win back in February.

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Another summer, another unsettling time for Wesley Johnson.

He’ll be a free agent in July, yet again, three years in a row for him.

“I would love a multi-year deal,” he said Thursday, but would anybody give it to him?

The Lakers handed Johnson one-year deals the last two summers for the league minimum. He hadn’t shown enough consistency to warrant anything else.

The fourth pick in the 2010 draft acknowledged it was a frustrating cycle. He said he wanted to return to the Lakers after averaging a career-best 9.9 points on the worst team in franchise history (21-61).

“Definitely things haven’t gone like anybody wanted it to,” he said. “But I definitely don’t want to leave.”

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He sounded nothing like Carlos Boozer, who claimed earlier Thursday he wanted to come back to the Lakers but only if “we had a team that could compete.”

Said Johnson: “I like the fight. I would want it to be a playoff team, really trying to get it to that. I’m not shying away from it.”

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