Russell Westbrook and patrick Beverley have already been in contact since Beverley has joined the lakers, and Darvin Ham even has some lineups in mind, where patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook will play alongside each other and this comes in the midst of an off season.
Where the Los Angeles Lakers have had a ton of trade rumors surrounding Russell Westbrook, and one of those has been a potential trade for myles turner and Buddy Hield, Hield has led the league in threes over the past five seasons, and myles turner has led the league in blocks, i thought that was pretty interesting, Jeanie buss recently said that her father never tanked, and we’ll get into some of the comments that she made about that a little bit later.
But with the recent Utah Jazz and New York Knicks trade talks getting a bit more complicated due to rj Barrett’s extension, the lakers might need to make a move, while they can although they could get involved in a three-team trade between the jazz and the knicks, i feel like a trade option with the Indiana Pacers, where they add buddy hield to miles turner could be really good for them and it could end up being quite a bit less complicated.
Because when you get all those teams involved it gets a lot more difficult to get a deal done in my opinion, because that’s just so much going on when you look at that type of trade but genie buzz said it’s a priority to the laker brand that he retired laker we’ll probably enjoy watching him as he approaches becoming the all-time leading scorer in history, and although a trade with the jazz and the knicks like i said could be beneficial for Lakers, if the lakers are couldn’t give up those two first adding in myles turner and buddy hield could end up being their best option.
Because you look at the floor spacing buddy hield provides you look at the shot blocking myles turner provides you look at their fit on the roster with already having patrick Beverley, he can run your guard spot you put a shooter at the two guard spot one of the best shooters in the league at the two guard and that will help LeBron James in terms of floor spacing, you’re really going to have the majority of the guys who are out there in the starting lineup at least able to hit a three really the only guy who’s going to struggle from a three-point line in a lineup with patrick Beverley buddy hield, lebron, Anthony Davis and myles turner is Anthony Davis so you’d have a ton of spacing there, i really like that type of trade but going back to genie buses comments about tanking she said my dad never did that in 32 years, so it’s just not the way, he would have seen the lakers brand to be at the bottom of the standings year after year, so i just don’t really see why the lakers shouldn’t go out there and trade those future picks to compete right now, if they want to see lebron retire laker and jeannie buss values being competitive making a move for myles turner and buddy hield, can make them competitive and if she believes that the lakers can remain competitive, then why not trade those future first round picks, if they can end up being outside of the lottery picks as they continue to compete.