BONUS MINI-POD: Klay Thompson to Dallas Mavericks. Are the Lakers Running out of Options?

BONUS MINI-POD: Klay Thompson to Dallas Mavericks. Are the Lakers Running out of Options?

hello and welcome to a special bonus Monday mini locked on Lakers podcast Klay Thompson is off to Dallas in a sign in trade who is left for the Lakers to potentially acquire via free agency or trade get into that [Music] next you are locked on Lakers your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your Team every day and thanks for making lock on leg is your first listen wherever you get your podcast Monday through Friday always free never behind a pay wall and locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can hang out with a community of almost 25,000 subscribers really awesome fun smart respectful group of audience very engaged leave comments we often use them as part of the show I’m Andy kinety co-host of lock on Lakers my brother Brian is unavailable but wanted to just do a quick reaction video to the news broken by Adrien wowski from ESPN quote free agent Klay Thompson plans to join the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year $50 million deal that includes a player option sources told ESPN’s Adrian rinowski ending his historic run with the Golden State Warriors Thompson’s move to Dallas comes as part of a multi-trade multi-te signning trade that will send Maverick’s guard Josh Green to Charlotte sources said Thompson had fouryear offers for more money but taking less was offset by the chance to win a fifth Championship with the Mavs as well as difference in state taxes now wge was not specific as to whether or not the offers with four years Andor more money specifically came from the Lakers but I would say given the Lakers were by multiple uh multiple media reports very engaged in talks for Klay Thompson I’m willing to at least for the time being till we otherwise assume that they were at least putting out a legitimate offer for Klay Thompson ultimately he ends up deciding to play in Dallas um I can see reasons that Dallas would be more appealing for clay they by definition are closer to a championship because they were just in the finals I also think that with k with with uh Luca donic and Kyrie Irving there is less of a a lift 82 season game um in the regular season for clay as there would be on a team with LeBron and AD both coming off an Olympic run talked about this many times the ever dayers will be familiar with it I do think the the issue that comes with LeBron having to Pace himself at this stage of his career does mean that even with all the producing that he does and he produces at a level that is quite literally unprecedented for any type of player his age it is astonishing that he can still do this there is definitely a level of pacing himself and there is a level of other stuff being left for some of the players around him namely defense and for somebody like clay who I believe is 35 himself that could appealing um it’s interesting I I put out a poll in the YouTube Community section asking our viewers whether or not they were excited at the prospect of Klay Thompson joining the Lakers um the four choices were awesome not my first choice but solid pickup not terrible but not great either or pass and awesome got 44% and that was the clubhouse leader so I imagine there’s going there’s going to be Laker fans unhappy about this for what it’s worth I wasn’t particularly all that wild about the clay option to begin with um I I think at this stage of his career we’ve seen the decline particularly on the defensive end that has come after multiple leg related you know Achilles ACL we’ve seen that damage come in his scoring is still at times pretty lethal and he is capable of getting on an occasional role and the guy will be able to hit from Deep for the rest of his life in his sleep but even his offense is starting to grow less efficient he’s become much more three-point Centric three-point dependent and again defensively he’s not the clay that he used to be so for what it’s worth I’m not all that upset by this what’s interesting though and we’re going to get into more of this for the full show on Tuesday with Brian just where do the Lakers go from here because you know there had been the report uh Rich Paul telling ESPN that LeBron would be willing to take a pay cut um to try to help the Lakers if it was to acquire a player of a certain statue some of the names included James Harden who was never realistic to begin with but he’s staying with the Clippers two years 70 million reportedly um Jonas valent chunis who joined the Wizards for three and3 and now Klay Thompson those were the guys on the list I as I said at the time when we talked about this for Monday’s show I can’t imagine that the list is three players and that’s it um Demar de rozan could be an option he’s been linked to the Lakers for years Joe C I believe that’s how you pronounce his name uh Bulls reporter for the Chicago Sun Times reported today that Demar D rozan who isn’t impending free agent will not be sticking around in Chicago um D rozan is is an interesting option for the Lakers he’s got some minuses particularly defensively but offensively he is somebody that can really help the team out he’s become I think a a really really underrated playmaker beyond the mid-range scoring everybody knows he’s capable of maybe there are trade options with the Brooklyn Nets for Dorian finy Smith Andor cam Johnson the Blazers for Jeremy Grant Wizards Kyle kosma I hope uh a trade for Zack LaVine or Trey young is off the table but you know for the time being it’s it’s a possibility until you know that it’s not um so it’ll be interesting to see where the Lakers go with this you know we’ve talked about before they have a full roster right now so they’re going to have to manufacture space you know salary dumping one of their veteran minimum guys or Maxwell Lewis maybe a Jaylen hood chafino or trying to create a trade where they send two players out for one you know there there’s a lot on Rob Pink’s plate now anyway but it’s going to be interesting to see where the Lakers go moving forward because many of the names that seemingly felt impactful to LeBron and also I get a sense are impactful in the eyes of Laker fans um they’re starting to come off the board so we’ll see where everything goes from here um again locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can hang out with this awesome Community before we go want to make sure that everybody knows Today’s Show is brought to you by FanDuel and we all love sports we love them so much we never want them to stop but as the playoffs wind down we get fewer games and the sports aren’t sportsing like we want them to FanDuel helps me helps you helps all of us keep the sports going whenever we want all got to do is just open up the app dream up bets anytime you’re in the mood you get baseball you get WNBA you get options and this summer FanDuel is hooking up all customers with a boost or a bonus daily so there’s going to be something for everyone every day all summer long head over to fanduel.com lockon start making the most out of your summer 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The Lakers are trying to find ways to upgrade the roster, and in less than 24 hours since free agency opened, the names attached to them have been flying off the board. James Harden. Jonas Valanciunus. And now Klay Thompson, who felt like the guy with the best odds, between having grown up in L.A. rooting for the Lakers, his father Mychal’s past/current ties to the team, and positional fit. Well, that’s now null and void. So who’s next for the Lakers to chase? Andy Kamenetzky breaks it all down.

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