The Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors don’t do trade business often.
In what has become an ongoing series here at Lake Show Life, we are breaking down the best trade that the Los Angeles Lakers have made with every other franchise in the NBA. Today, it is the Golden State Warriors‘ turn.
Being in the same division, the Lakers and Warriors have not been trade partners very often. The two franchises have only made three total trades. The most recent came in 2014 while the first order of business was in 1990.
With only three trades and the fact that they are division rivals, none of the deals are that notable. However, there is one in which the Lakers landed a solid role player on a team that went to the NBA Finals.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ best trade ever with the Golden State Warriors:
In September of 1990, the Los Angeles Lakers traded their first-round pick in the following year’s draft to the Warriors in exchange for veteran shooting guard Terry Teagle. That pick ended up being the 25th overall pick in the draft and the Lakers did not miss out on much, as Shaun Vandiver was selected and never appeared in an NBA game.
In fact, every all-star from that year’s draft class was selected in the top-16 picks, so the Los Angeles Lakers did not miss out on any talent whatsoever.
Teagle might not seem worthy of a first-round pick if you just look at the averages throughout his career but he blossomed into an important bench player for the Lakers in the 1990-91 season, which essentially was the last of the Showtime era as it was the last time that Magic Johnson made it to the NBA Finals.
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Teagle played two seasons with the Lakers and did not miss a single game in those two seasons, albeit he never started in a game for the team. He averaged 10.3 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 18.9 minutes per game off the bench while being a solid bench defender.
He really saw an uptick in his usage in the 1992 NBA Playoffs, even if he only played four games as the Lakers lost 3-1 in the first round. Teagle averaged 17.5 points in the four playoff games that year, scoring 26 in the only game that the Lakers won against the Trailblazers.
Although it is not the most intriuging trade, it is the best that the Lakers have ever made with their division rivals as they landed a solid bench shooting guard that did play a role in a team that went to the NBA Finals.
It certainly is better than 23 games of Kent Bazemore and 18 games of MarShon Brooks.