Beijing time on December 16, the NBA Lakers in the away game experienced 1 overtime to beat the Lone Rangers, the whole game Russell Westbrook played 42 minutes, he shot 8 of 18 shots to take 23 points + 10 rebounds + 9 assists of the quasi-triple-double data, he may be the best in this game lakers giant, but this game does not have much significance, many fans still hope that the Lakers will trade Westbrook, as for why to trade Westbrook, in fact, for a time many fans can not find a reason, just, The US media "Lakeshowlife" has made an analysis of this, they think that the Lakers want to trade off Wei Shao is a very difficult thing, if it can be successful, this is the best thing the Lakers can do this season, and they listed the Lakers should trade Wei Shao 3 reasons, may wish to look at the reasons given by the US media?
1. Westbrook's salary severely limits the Lakers
Why don't so many teams dare to get Westbrook? This season Wei junior salary of 44 million, next season is 47 million, he has player options, but he is most likely not to give up so much money, the current total salary of the league is less than $140 million there are 20 teams, get Wei Shao basically means eating 30% of the salary space, more importantly, the salary is too high, but his strength is not enough to reach that height, and Wei Shao's salary is now seriously limited to the Lakers, the Lakers basically can not make any powerful operation, and make adjustments around Tucker. This season, the Lakers have a lot of basic salary veterans, if Wei Shao is still in the Lakers next season, there will be a lot of basic salary veterans in the Lakers next season...
2. Wei Shao is not compatible with thick eyebrow brother
Anthony Davis's performance this season has disappointed, his projection ability is too bad, the defense has slipped too much, the situation of Westbrook is somewhat similar, which is very embarrassing, thick eyebrow brother, Westbrook, Howard or jordan jr., the Lakers basically have no court space, the opponent only needs to lock the basket is estimated to limit the Lakers' offense by 60%, fortunately now in the small ball era, otherwise the Lakers' situation should be worse, this "incompatible" Westbrook and thick eyebrow brother are responsible, the responsibility of thick eyebrow brother will of course be greater, After all, his projection was good before, and Wei Shao had always been like this, but looking at the things behind the thick eyebrow brother, agent Rich Paul, the aura of the Son of America, 5 years younger than Wei Shao, and the big name Fan who pushed down Howard, it was easy to make a choice, wasn't it?
3. Now this Lakers team will be worse in the playoffs
The Lakers are terrible right now, if they don't change, it's likely to be worse in the playoffs, a team can't have too obvious weaknesses in the playoffs, such as Ben Simmons's projection, very unfortunate, the Lakers now have 2, Westbrook and Thick Brow, they can't open up the field space, they can't come up with a good defense, the Warriors have Draymond Green, the Suns have Ayton, the Jazz have Rudy Gobert, the Grizzlies have Adams, the Nuggets have Nicola Jokic, the Clippers have Ibaka, They can theoretically limit the Lakers in the restricted area, which will make LeBron James play very hard, they need to pray for the breakout of the shooter, these are the problems that can be seen now, I believe that the process is still quick to change, the time left for the Lakers to choose is actually not much, isn't it?