The Lakers are interested in going online again, but most likely for nothing!
As soon as the offseason comes, the Lakers and I take a walk by the West Lake every time, good guys, that's seeing a love one [funny] So far, it has been revealed that the Lakers' interested players can form a set of starters, PG Paul, SG Murray, SF Grant, PF Mitchell Robinson, C Wallan, let's just say that this set of starters can make the playoffs? Closer to home, I think Lakers fans need to be mentally prepared because the Lakers will probably not get any of them!
First of all, the Lakers don't have enough chips!
As far as the Lakers are interested, except for Wallan, everyone else has contracts with the parent team, so if the Lakers want to get these players, they must be traded! At present, the Lakers have very limited trading chips, and the only chips that the Lakers can take out at present are Russell + No. 17 pick in the first round this year, and then add Vanderbilt and Hachimura as additives, which is not enough to impress the management of other teams! Let's talk about the Warriors first, trading Paul must require the lineup to improve, especially the need for stable scoring ability, to be honest, Russell's scoring is not stable, not to mention that Russell was once abandoned by the Warriors! Besides, the Hawks, last season traded with you, you pushed three and four, and now the trade must be on the ground, the Trail Blazers needless to say, the most wanted reward for trading Grant is the first-round pick, and the Lakers' No. 17 pick in the first round this year is not good, after all, this year is a draft year! The Knicks don't need a guard much at the moment, either!
Secondly, there is the issue of salary space!
The Lakers simply don't have the ability to eat another big contract, Paul is 30 million, Grant is nearly 40 million, and Murray is also 30 million, although in line with the principle of salary equalization, how much room is freed up in the contract, but in the case of James and thick eyebrows almost locked the space, and the Lakers management is unwilling to pay the luxury tax, if any of these three join the Lakers, then the Lakers' rotation lineup will be greatly reduced!
In the end, Pelinka's popularity is not good!
In the past few years, there has been basically no big move in the trade of Pelinka, all of them are patches, and they have been used as a tool to raise prices many times, which is enough to show that Pelinka can't eat in the league management, mainly because he has gone back on his word many times during his time as an agent, so his reputation is not good, and other teams will have scruples when they negotiate transactions with him!
