The Los Angeles Lakers have been targeting Bojan bogdanovic, Jordan Clarkson and Malik Beasley in trade talks with the Utah Jazz but a trade remains unlikely because of the Los Angeles Lakers putting value on their future despite having a 37-year-old LeBron James on their roster so.
A potential trade with the Utah Jazz and what it could look like and how that trade could help the Lakers, if the Los Angeles Lakers were willing to trade away Russell Westbrook and Kendrick Nunn along with a 2027 first-round pick and two future second round picks and that was enough for them to add Bojan bogdanovic Jordan Clarkson and Malik Beasley.
I feel like it could be a really good trade for them I mean the Utah Jazz are rebuilding maybe they would value having those pigs and then maybe they could look to trade Kendrick none to another team potentially the New York Knicks and maybe they could add cam reddish to be another young player for their young core as they look to rebuild and those Los Angeles Lakers future first round picks could be really valuable and that’s why I think the Lakers are hesitant to part ways with their picks.
Because if they traded their 2027 and 2029 first round picks, and we’re really struggling to start in let’s say 2027, and they don’t have that pick then it’s going to make it difficult for them to get better by 2029 then it could look really bad if they traded both of those picks, and they’re bad in both of those years, and they don’t have a means to get better through the draft but the Los Angeles Lakers do still have a 37-year-old LeBron on the roster and a trade like this could definitely help out the team a trade with the Indiana Pacers could be better though in my opinion because I think that Buddy Hield and Myles Turner would fit better on the roster.
So maybe they could leverage these trade talks with the Utah Jazz into potentially making a trade with Indiana but one thing’s clear after signing Dennis Schroder the Lakers have a ton of guard words in their rotation they have a lot of point guards a lot of shooting guards and it’s going to be interesting to see how the minutes pan out if the roster stands Pat and continues to look the same going into the season.
Because if the Lakers roster does look the same then Darvin Ham is going to have to get creative with lineups but I do like that the Lakers added two good defensive point guards this off-season and Dennis Schroder and Patrick Beverley I definitely think that will help them when they’re going up against some of the top guards in the league so that they can try and mitigate the offense that those guys are able to bring but still I just think the lineups are going to be pretty difficult to figure out if you’re Darvin Ham and I just wonder how things are going to work out for the Lakers this season because roster construction over these past two seasons has been pretty difficult for Lakers.
Because they’ve mostly been working with minimum contracts and it’s difficult to fill out a roster with guys who fit all together really well when you’re working with minimum deals.