Los Angeles Lakers: Why the Lakers should explore trading Danny Green
By Jason Reed
1. Danny Green has the perfect tradeable contract
One of the biggest factors in a player getting traded in the NBA is his contract. The most a team can get in return for a player is 125 percent plus $100,000. This makes it where teams cannot trade someone on a rookie deal for a superstar straight up.
It is really hard to move those smaller contract and those larger contracts and you often need someone who is right in that mid-range to make a deal happen. That is exactly where Green’s contract is, making him tradeable just from a practical standpoint.
Green is making $14.6 million and is in the last year of his contract next season. Not only is the salary a perfect amount for the Lakers to trade him, but the fact that he is in the last year of his deal makes him tradeable as well.
That makes him easier to send him to a rebuilding team that is trying to free up long-term salary. Or, it makes it easier to package with a young player as that team knows that Green is not someone who is going to restrict them past one season.
When you break down the Los Angeles Lakers’ contract situations, Green really is the only player that has a contract that is easy to trade in a deal that would be significant enough to improve the Lakers.