Beijing time on February 7, from this season's NBA trading deadline has been getting closer and closer, and the Los Angeles Lakers are still motionless at this time, which makes many Lakers fans feel anxious, many people can't wait to know, the Lakers can send away Wei Shao before the trade deadline, because according to the current situation, the Lakers want to rely on the current Wei Shao to win the championship, it is still very difficult.
How bad is Wei Shao's current state? Today, NBA data expert Kirk Goldsberg posted on Instagram his scatter chart of the league's top jumper efficiency statistics for the last five years. Statistically, Curry is one of the league's most efficient and most shot-and-shoot jumpers over the past five years; Westbrook is one of the most effective and one of the most shot-out jumpers. Judging by Westbrook's offensive performance on the field this season, this table undoubtedly proves this.
Up to now, in fact, not only Lakers fans hope that the Lakers will trade less, the Lakers themselves want to get rid of Westbrook, recently, an anonymous NBA executive in an interview with Heavy.com talked about the Lakers. Speaking about Westbrook's situation, the anonymous executive said: "It's clear the Lakers want to send Westbrook away right now, but that's almost impossible. They all know that the current lineup is not working. ”
But the problem is that now the whole league knows that Wei Shao's state is very poor, coupled with his big contract, basically no team is willing to play the role of the wronged boss at this time, the Lakers have actually tried to use Wei Shao to quote before, but there is no team moved, even if it is the Thunder that regards Wei Shao as a hero, it has also been exposed that there is no hope of welcoming back Wei Shao.
So now that the Lakers want to trade off Wei Shao, there may be only one hope left, that is, there are stars who want to come to the Lakers. According to the latest situation, Blazers star Lillard is very likely to become this player. After the Blazers and Clippers completed the trade, they basically announced that they were going to enter the reconstruction period, and for Lillard, who is already 31 years old, he has no time to wait for the team to rebuild, and if he wants to win the championship, leaving Portland is undoubtedly a better choice.
According to previous foreign media news, if Lillard is traded, and if he only wants to go to the West Coast, then only the Lakers have a capital offer. To put it bluntly, whether the Lakers and the Blazers can reach a deal between Lillard and Westbrook may only be a sentence from Lillard, as long as Lillard publicly says that he wants to go to the Lakers now, then the Blazers may choose to release people.
The US media believes that Lillard has dedicated so much to Portland, and the Blazers should treat him like the Rockets treat Harden, that is, send Lillard to a team that he really wants to go to and has the hope of winning the championship, and the US media believes that the Lakers can propose to replace Lillard with Wei Shao + Tucker + Munch + 27 years in the first round. Westbrook's expired contract, Munch's cost performance and potential, while the 27-year Lakers' first round has a high probability of high picks, which can basically meet the Blazers' rebuilding needs. At the same time, it is also a gift to Lillard.
There is no doubt that if the Lakers can really get Lillard, then the promotion of the team is huge, originally Lillard is one of the players that the Lakers want to get in the offseason, but because of the Intervention of the Lambis, the Lakers finally chose Westbrook, and finally proved that this decision was wrong. Now if the Lakers have a chance to get Lillard, I believe they will go all out to fight for it, and now the key question is whether Lillard is willing to leave the Blazers immediately.