{"id":18463,"date":"2022-07-18T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lakers-rumors-irving-trade-targets-westbrook\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:56:44","slug":"lakers-rumors-irving-trade-targets-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lakers-rumors-irving-trade-targets-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Rumors: Irving, Trade Targets, Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It remains to be seen whether or not the Lakers<\/strong> will be able to work out a trade with the nets<\/strong> for Kyrie Irving<\/strong>but Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN believes LA has at least one more major roster move up its sleeve this offseason, as he stated on Monday during the network’s latest episode of Get Up (video link).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Lakers will make a deal. Maybe more than one deal,\u201d <\/em>Wojnarowski said. \u201cIt may not be for Kyrie Irving, it may not be for an All-NBA player, an All-Star. But players like Eric Gordon<\/strong> in Houston, Buddy Hield<\/strong> in Indiana, players like Patrick Beverley<\/strong>, who came to the Jazz in a trade from Minnesota, who are role players are winning teams. What is the price for those kind of moves? I think they’re going to continue to be active on all those things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As Wojnarowski explains, the Lakers aren’t eager to part with all of their most valuable trade assets for modest short-term upgrades, but they still feel the need to add more talent to the roster to take advantage of LeBron James<\/strong>‘ remaining prime years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen LeBron’s putting pressure on the front office, on the organization, teams are asking for a lot to do a deal with the Lakers,\u201d <\/em>Wojnarowski said. \u201cRob Pelinka<\/strong>‘s trying to keep from trading the 2027, 2029 unprotected first-round picks that obviously LeBron James doesn’t value greatly because he may not be around. He wants to win now. That’s the balance of being in the front office vs. having to serve the fact that you’ve got LeBron James still playing at an incredibly high level at an age we’ve never seen a player play at that level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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