Los Angeles Lakers: Ranking the best trades with every other NBA team
By Jason Reed
The Los Angeles Lakers have not made a great trade with almost every other NBA team.
For the last month or so here at Lake Show Life, we have had an ongoing series that brought you the best trade that the Los Angeles Lakers have ever made with every other franchise in the NBA. Yesterday, that series culminated with the Washington Wizards, so it is now time to rank all 28 of the trades that we brought to you.
There was only one team — the Minnesota Timberwolves, that the Los Angeles Lakers have not done any trade business with. Thus, we have 28 different trades to go through. More in-depth analysis of the deals are available in their respective articles, this article serves as a one-stop-shop of all the trades and how they rank.
28. Boston Celtics
The best trade that the Los Angeles Lakers have ever made with the Boston Celtics included sending Rick Fox, Gary Payton and a future first-round pick that turned into current Laker, Rajon Rondo, for Chucky Atkins, Jumaine Jones and Chris Mihm.
This was part of several moves that the Lakers made to blow up the 2003-04 team and it was not a great one. Although not terrible, as remember, this is ranking the best trade that the Lakers have made with each team.
27. Golden State Warriors
The best trade with the Warriors landed Terry Teagle on the Lakers. Teagles played a full two seasons with the Lakers and did not miss a game, although he did not start one, either. He was a rotational guard who averaged 10.3 points per game that was rather forgettable.
26. Portland Trail Blazers
The Lakers have only made two trades with Portland and that is apparent with how good their best ever trade with the team is. Leroy Ellis only played 84 games with the Lakers and only averaged 4.4 points per game, however, since he was a part of the 1972 title-winning team, he gets a slight nod.
25. Chicago Bulls
This is similar to the Portland trade, although in this trade the Lakers landed Keith Erickson, who played over 300 games with the team and was also part of the 1972 title-winning team.