With the trade deadline less than two days away, NBA teams have also begun final deal negotiations. According to incomplete statistics, by the time of deadline, more than five transactions were reached in the early morning of February 9, Beijing time. However, compared to other teams, the Los Angeles Lakers have become the quietest one. Although there were constant rumors of trades in December, the Lakers only signed Stanley Johnson, a firefighter with a good performance, through a base salary contract two days before the trade deadline. Although James and Davis have been in hot form recently, everyone knows that the Lakers are not enough to strengthen the team with only one Stanley Johnson. Combined with the recent news from reporters about James considering leaving the Lakers, it is time for the Lakers management to change.
At about 6:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 6, well-known journalist Dan Walker exposed the Lakers' latest trade. Although the Purple and Gold Army's trading chips with Tucker and the first round of 27 years as the core have repeatedly hit a wall, the Los Angeles giants have not given up on this effort. According to the reporter, the Lakers have been trying to pack Tucker and 27 years of first-round exchange for veterans with immediate combat power today, and the most realistic deal target for the Magic's Terrance Rose is currently the target. In fact, this is not the first time that the Lakers have reported a scandal with Rose this season, as early as December, the Lakers had preliminary negotiations with the Magic on rose's transaction. According to media reports at the time, the Lakers' psychological price for getting Rose was Horton Tucker and Nunn Packing, but the Magic clearly preferred to get the Lakers' 2027 first-round draft picks. With the trade deadline approaching, the situation has clearly changed, and according to Dan Walker, the Lakers have packed the 2027 first-round pick into the deal chips.
The 31-year-old Terrance Rose has been with the Magic for six seasons, and as a forward guard swingman, Rose's most prominent ability is his ability to attack autonomously as a sixth man. Excluding his first season with the Magic, Rose averaged 15.1 points per game in three seasons from 18-19 to 20-21 as the Magic's sixth man. But Rose, who has been at the top of the league's best sixth-man award in recent years, has lost his form this season, averaging only 11.1 points per game so far this season, his lowest level since joining the Magic. Not only has scoring per game declined, But Rose's three-point shooting percentage per game this season is the lowest level in his career. If you analyze the advanced data, Rose's offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency are ranked outside the league's three hundred, and the net efficiency is only -12.3, which is really not worth the Lakers paying for him in the first round of 27 years.
But given the Lakers' realities, if they still want to take advantage of James and Davis' good form this season to compete for the title, Rose seems to be their last chance to trade this season. Coupled with James' recent departure rumors, the Time left for the Lakers to choose is getting less and less. Hield, Holliday, Lamb and other targets have been traded one after another, and the Lakers are considering fewer and fewer candidates. Is it a stud trade now or to save the chips until the summer to make plans, which reinforcement plan do fans and friends think the Lakers should choose? Welcome to discuss and communicate in the comments section!