The Lakers have done nothing at all at the trade deadline and will focus on signing players in the buyout market. Many Lakers fans are not very satisfied with the Lakers' inaction, after all, the current team is in a very poor state, and it really needs some changes to activate them, otherwise it is really difficult to achieve anything this season! Many people also blame the team's management for the Lakers' failure to make a trade, believing that the poor management has caused the team to appear in its current state!
And after the Lakers did not trade, the US media also had a heated discussion, Lakers reporter Dave McMenamin tweeted that in 2018, the Cavaliers made a drastic trade of 6 players and a draft pick before the trade deadline to completely change the team lineup, when the Cavaliers only achieved a record of 31 wins and 22 losses, the state is average, not like a championship, but before the trade deadline, they completed multiple transactions, and then the team entered the finals! The Lakers now have a 26-30 record, but they don't have any trades!
Salary expert Bobby Marks later retweeted the social media and said: "The Lakers don't have some mid-range contracts of 5-16 million like the Cavaliers of that year." As I said last week, it's about math. Limited draft pick resources don't help either. ”
Indeed, the Lakers' current roster configuration does have certain problems, look at their current salary space, Westbrook $44.21 million, James $41.18 million, Davis $35.36 million, only Tucker Jr.'s $9.5 million and Nunn's $5 million are trading value!
The next contract is the base salary of Ellington, Bradley, Jordan Jr., Howard, Ariza, Anthony, Bazemore, Munch, Reeves and Stanley Johnson, there are three top salaries, 10 base salaries, and only two players who can have trade value.