Who Can Lakers Trade D’Angelo Russell To? What An Unkind Free Agent Market Would Do For LA
The free agent market very well might not yield the contract that D’Angelo Russell wants it to. What happens then? The Lakers gain the advantage, though some complications in the CBA, including one no one is talking enough about, will require some creativity on LA’s part. Trevor Lane breaks down the situation…
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For Pete’s sake you can’t count on d low except to disappear in the playoffs he did it last year if he showed this or last year the lake show would still be playing. Don’t let the door hit you where god split you d disappear!
I got the inside scoop that DLo is just gonna simply walk, where he will get $12-15 mil, and lakers will get the MLE
Trae Young would look good in Purple and Gold!!!
Dlo spoke too soon. He does not have the leverage he thinks he has because of his playoffs sucktitude. He killed about 75% of that leverage. He is not going to get an offer that he thinks he deserves and with his level of talent, he is not worth a team hard capping themselves.
Why are we talking and being enamored about a one way player who faulters in the playoffs??
The Celtics are going to win the championship and the Lakers are going to sign LeBron to a ridiculous contract that will not allow them to fill out the roster. The Lakers will continue to be a borderline play-in team and Jeanie will continue to rub herself up against Bron when he is taking rest games. What an effin' mess!
Trade dlo for jlo
Lakers: we need better 3 point shooting
Lakers trade their best 3 point shooter
If you ask me, I say the Lakers should keep him. Isn't that why they gave him a contract. As a matter of fact they should keep Dlo, Reeves, Hachimura,Wood, and or Hayes and see about the rest.
He needs to stay or trade for Schroeder and some shooting. Man. This sucks. But I want him to stay
If Dlo was the third best player why not trade Reaves?
get Stanley J, Norman Powell, mccollum, oubre jr or paskal, Suggs, whiteside, huff, vonleh, juancho Hernangomez, luka samanic, keep skylar & Dinwiddie. Try Michael Porter Jr, hope they can take a look at those options above on a favorable contracts
What's funny is that this is the Same damn Convo they were having during the season..Trades, Free Agency, Trade Free Agency, Trade. TRADE, man can y'all talk about something else. Talk about how the Nuggets are just a horrible match-up that's it, plain and simple, stop talking trades like someone else is gonna make a difference. Talk Hoops, Talk strategy sometimes. I see why Bron said what he said about some Laker Fan's and their social media outlets. This is what y'all Talk about lol. Bron is leaving soon, AD is leaving right after, that's when u talk trades and Sh$@. Talk about how the Nuggets code is cracked, and they almost cracked it themselves with only 1 BIG, imagine what 2 or 3 can do. Talk about how they should bring almost everyone back, and have Reeves come off the Bench. Everyone's healthy and have more comaridedi then the Lakers can ball out.. BUT instead you choose to talk about trades and D Lo over and over.
Paskal and mathurin or keegan Murray & monk, or f Wagner, suggs and wendell Carter or jovic and herro or get tillman or how abt bane or Norman powell
Best thing you can do is Hire Mark Jackson… I think he can bring out the best in the young guys and develop them properly… but will Lebron James forgive him and let the past be the past
The 1st apron teams not being able to take more that 100% is interesting. Basically those 1st apron teams would have to have exact same contracts as the players being traded for each other.
D'lo opts in and has 18.6 mil. Other teams that are 1st apron or higher. Suns only have Nurkic with a 18.1 mil. Suns taking more than 100%. Timberwolves have Monte Morris at the exact contract but he is a free agent so it would have to be a sign and trade and that would hard cap the Lakers. Celtics don't have a matching contract. Nuggets no matching contract. Bucks same case. Heat too.
It’s more likely going to be a similar team with marginal improvement. Coaching change will be the biggest thing. If no deal was made during the trade deadline, I don’t see anything happening come summer. Lakers tax is real and teams don’t want to help a Laker/Lebron team. It’s why lakers really can only trade with bottom teams.
If the lakers want have quality team they have to overhaul the whole team and get younger instead to get in Older like they pretend to do with lebron and Paul and dlo and glass Davis
Trade dlo for a legit center like Jarrett Allen or nic claxton
Get Dlo off my team already
From KCP, Rondo, Kuz….to DLo, Reaves and Dinwiddie it seems we keep trading downwards….not upwards, I think we can trade DLo for a paperclip
He will get 2 years 25 mil
Lakers suck, but not because of DLo. Stop throwing blame around. Get rid of Pelinka and anyone involved with breaking up the defensive team with two veteran 7 footers.. How can you go small when you have Jokic in your division. The stupidity is mind boggling. Then go blame every coach and player not named Bron or AD. Now they want to hire JJ POS to coach.
Look at the guard play that’s left they play hard both sides and athleticism dlo can shoot when open that’s it 💜💛💪🏾
this is the reason why i love this channel it is very informative Trevor is absolutely fantastic good job man
I like D lo he can shoot really good from 3 , we need a big man and a Demar DeRozan aside from that we were close to beating Denver and if we get past them we can beat any other team in a 7 game series 💯✅✅✅🗣️
Russell should not be traded!
If the Lakers trade DLO or let him walk they will regret it. I think they should keep him he's a very good three-point shooter and that's what they need.
Lebron Go to Knicks it's easier out there and your old so you will fit in. Let's see if your still cursed like you are now.
Trade him for Haliburton
I cannot then fathom how a simple comment can affect anything. to be able to have an underlying uncompromised unadulterated one size fits all is to throw away players trying to get jj whiteflag hired and forcing a trio when in truth everyone's affected by my comments.
here are the reasons why you're back to the compromise mode.
– ya do know that norris cole won back to back championships at 1 to 2 years and irrelevant right away. the so called gm of this franchise must not be all the way trusted coz he's malleable and corruptible
_40 years old to 27 is not a great argument from contrast bitching about trio model since basketball has always been keen to marathon running stimuli for explosiveness. it just doesn't work. so i've heard ya can skip losing players for seasoned stretch big either.
just keep drafting. you've been on 7th seed anyways so you're a moron tsk tsk tsk if you keep missing all the opportunities. wingspan and versatility is abundant on draft ya don't need sarcomere. the only scoring juice that you're talking about is *marathon running mass, glyocgen which is pretty much carbs so ain't no one punching me in the face and telling they know what they talk about when you insist terms such as mileage etc
the trade i see us making ,with all of the info i just received ,is a trade with the kings . why ? i don't think monk is staying cause he makes to much sense for the magic ( i can see them splashing a lot of money on him ) . dlo however can give you a lot of things monk gave you (except for explosiveness pace etc) . Now the odd man out for the kings becomes huerter .
So the trade would be 16 mil huerter for 18.7 mil dlo and a 2nd rounder . both teams win
I always look at Delo as a shooting guard. I think he’s better fit for that role and get a PG that’s a 3 &D guy
1st apron will most likely be 185 mil or more because of the new TV deal. Teams will be able to make moves
DiLo is a show. Yes, he played very good during the season. But, come the play oof, for the second play off in a row, he gets cold feet and flops. How you play in the play offs is more important than how you play in the season. So, he gets cold feet in the play offs and flops. Who wants a player like that?
Great explanation of the options with DLO.
I like DLo n understand y him and Austin can’t play together. But y not just keep DLo n use AR as a 6th man n insert a 3nD guard next to each. Max Christie or who ever else. Then add wing n big.
What if the LAL trade sign and trade D’Angelo Russell along with Jarred Vanderbilt, Christian Wood & Taurean Prince to N.O. for C.J. McCollum & Brandon Ingram? Just a thought
This new CBA sure does sound like it will be really bad for player mobility/choices. Side note when only crappy teams/markets can afford great players those great players will have to start taking massive pay-cuts for good teams/good markets.
I wish they could do a S&T with Toronto for Bruce Brown. Or a S&T with Orlando for Wendell Carter and Jett Howard.