The Los Angeles Lakers have some tradeable assets to work with.
The Los Angeles Lakers‘ primary focus right now is the 2019-2020 NBA season (hopefully) returning so the team can finish what it started and at least get the chance to win championship number 17.
It would feel much better, from the fans’ and players’ standpoint, to resume the season and lose rather than the year get canceled altogether. At least then the Lakers would get some closure on the season.
Whether the season ends, or it resumes and the Lakers win or lose, the front office is going to be busy in the offseason trying to make some kind of addition to the team. In the NBA, every team has to look to move forward in the offseason. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.
As a result, there is a decent chance that we could see the Los Angeles Lakers conduct a trade. They are not going to pull off another massive trade like for Anthony Davis, but if the right situation arises as the market develops, Rob Pelinka will not be hesitant to pull the trigger.
During this NBA stand-still, media outlets are getting creative and proposing things such as a LeBron James trade if Davis leaves the team, which is silly. There is such thing as an untradeable player and LeBron is the definition of that.
However, there are some movable assets that the Lakers have this offseason, including the team’s first-round pick. The Lakers cannot technically trade the first-round pick because of The Steipen Rule, but they can agree to the trade in principle, draft whoever the other team wants in the first round and then make the trade official after the draft.
Along with the team’s first-round pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, here are the three most tradeable players on the Los Angeles Lakers, ranked.