Lakers exercise 2018-19 options on Ingram, Nance

The Los Angeles Lakers have exercised their contract options on forwards Brandon

Ingram and Larry Nance Jr. for the 2018-19 season.

The widely expected moves were announced Tuesday.

Ingram was the No. 2 overall pick out of Duke in the 2016 draft. The longarmed wing player averaged 9.4 points and 4.0 rebounds per game as a rookie. While he still hasn’t become the superstar scorer that the Lakers want, he is averaging 14.7 points in the first three games of this season.

Nance was the 27th overall pick in the 2015 draft. The athletic dunker is a key part of the Lakers’ rotation when healthy, and he has started all three games for the Lakers this season, scoring 11.3 points per game.

NBA fines Suns’ Josh Jackson $35,000

The NBA has fined Phoenix Suns rookie Josh Jackson $35,000 for “making a menacing gesture” on the playing court and “directing inappropriate language at a fan.”

The incident occurred in the Suns’ 130-88 loss to the Clippers in Los Angeles last Saturday night.

Video appeared to show Jackson forming his fingers as a pretend gun and pointing it at the fan, but Jackson disputed that characterization.

Jackson said the fan had been heckling him loudly and aggressively throughout the game and that he wrongly decided to respond.

Jackson said at first he intended to flip his middle finger at the heckler but decided against it and that indecision led to his hand appearing to be a pretend gun.

Hawks’ Bembry to miss 4 to 6 weeks after wrist surgery

Atlanta Hawks guard/ forward DeAndre’ Bembry is expected to miss four to six weeks after having surgery to repair his fractured right wrist.

The Hawks say the surgery was performed on Tuesday at the Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center in Atlanta.

Bembry suffered the injury in the season-opening win at Dallas last Wednesday.

Bembry averaged 2.7 points in 38 games, including one start, as a rookie last season and was targeted for a bigger role on the rebuilding Hawks. He scored six points in 18 minutes off the bench before suffering the injury against the Mavericks.

Nuggets forward Hernangomez out with mononucleosis

Denver Nuggets forward Juancho Hernangomez will be sidelined for an undetermined amount of time because of mononucleosis.

Hernangomez didn’t travel with the Nuggets as they kick off a four-game trip in Charlotte on Wednesday. Hernangomez will remain in Denver “as part of his recovery,” the team announced.

The 22-year-old Hernangomez sat out Monday’s 109-104 loss to Washington with what was listed as an illness. He’s played a total of 13 minutes in two games and has yet to score.

Hernangomez was taken with the No. 15 pick in the 2016 draft. He averaged 4.9 points and 3.0 rebounds last season.