Positionally, the biggest need for the Los Angeles Lakers could be productive 3-and-D wings.
That is the name of the game in today’s NBA, as the league has gotten smaller and faster-paced over the past dozen years or so.
The Lakers appear to be willing to move at least one of their more productive players in order to acquire a wing who would move the needle.
Talen Horton-Tucker has been rumored to be trade bait, and he reportedly has real value around the league.
Guard Kendrick Nunn is another Laker who could be on the move should an opportunity present itself, and of course, Russell Westbrook would be the Lakers’ biggest asset on the trade market depending on how much interest there is in him.
According to Sean Deveney of Heavy.com, an Eastern Conference executive feels L.A. could go after the Toronto Raptors’ Gary Trent Jr. via trade.
Via Heavy.com:
“The pick is the key thing, if the Raptors think that pick is going to be valuable, and it might very well be, then it makes some sense,” the executive said. “Horton-Tucker and Nunn, you assume he is going to play again and be a pretty good bargain. The Raptors like Horton-Tucker, remember they wanted him in the Kyle Lowry deal that fell through with the Lakers. It is hard to say what kind of future Trent is going to have there, if they’ll pay him. So if they can get assets back now, it is something to explore.”