A 4-team trade package the Lakers should facilitate after Durant news

Kevin Durant is staying with the Brooklyn Nets, meaning that Kyrie Irving is off the table for the Los Angeles Lakers. It also means that a Donovan Mitchell trade might soon come as that trade may have been waiting for a potential KD trade to establish the market.

The Lakers need to pivot and part of that pivot can be involved in a potential Mitchell trade. Another potential pivot is for the Lakers to trade Russell Westbrook for the pair of Buddy Hield and Myles Turner.

There is a world in which the Lakers can combine both of those avenues into one. Speculation is growing now after the Durant news that the Lakers could join the Jazz and Knicks in a Mitchell trade while also looping in the Indiana Pacers (original report via Kevin O’Conner, The Ringer).

Four-team trades are complicated especially with all of the moving parts that would be in this trade. However, that did not stop us here at Lake Show Life from putting our thinking caps on and working out a potential four-team trade that makes sense for all parties involved.

The 4-team trade that the Lakers should facilitate after the Kevin Durant news:

• Lakers receive: Myles Turner, Evan Fournier, Patrick Beverley
• Pacers receive: Bojan Bogdanovic, Max Christie, LAL 2023 second-round pick, LAL 2025 second-round pick
• Knicks receive: Donovan Mitchell
• Jazz receive: Russell Westbrook, Obi Toppin, Immanuel Quickley, LAL 2027 first-round pick, LAL 2029 first-round pick (Top-10 protected), DET 2023 first-round pick (via NYK), WAS 2023 first-round pick (via NYK), NYK 2023 first-round pick, NYK 2025 first-round pick, NYK 2027 first-round pick, NYK 2028 pick swap

There is a lot to digest here with the Utah Jazz getting the bulk of the assets in this trade for trading away Donovan Mitchell. On the following pages, we will break down why the Los Angeles Lakers should say yes to this deal and then why the other teams should say yes to this deal.