On February 11, Beijing time, today is the last day of the NBA trade deadline, many fans are waiting for a big deal for their home teams, but the Lakers fans who wait until the early morning are disappointed. This season, the Lakers' big three combination completely failed, Westbrook played a negative asset performance, many Lakers fans hope that the Lakers management can send away Westbrook before the trade deadline, but unfortunately, the Lakers did not succeed, can only focus on the next transaction on the buyout market.
Before the trade deadline, the Lakers' struggle was not fierce, and the Lakers management had contact with multiple teams. Take stock of all the Lakers' efforts yesterday as follows: want to change back to Schroeder from the Celtics, because the Celtics asked for too high to be unrealistic (Schroeder was then sent to the Rockets); try to use Westbrook + Tucker + 2027 first round with the Rockets for Wall + Wood, the Rockets just to collect Wester will add a first-round handling fee, is Wood and you Tucker single exchange? The deal eventually failed unsurprisingly; pursuing Reddish and Burks to the Knicks, it is said that the deal was once close to being reached, but it was also declared a failure; asked Raptors guard Dragic, just asked a price, the Lakers did not dare to squeak, speculating that the Raptors' asking price The Lakers did not want to give at all; and the Magic negotiated the Tren Rose deal, the Magic relaxed, lowered the asking price from a first round to two second rounds, posing as a good negotiation, but the deal was not finally reached.
Look at the big deals of other teams, the Nets and Philadelphia 2 for 5 big deals, Harden and Ben Simmons swap owners, kings, Pistons, Bucks, Clippers four-way big deal, Porzingis to go to the Wizards, etc., strong teams that don't need big deals, such as the Suns have also carried out some practical small operations, and the Lakers have achieved nothing when the trade deadline comes, the main reason is that Westbrook's performance this season is too crotch-pulling. With a large salary of more than 40 million, Wei Shao has made the number of teams eligible to take over the game very small, and the Lakers have no decent chips, and the lack of valuable mid-range contracts has greatly compressed the operating space.
As the All-Star ticket king, James and the little king Of Durant participated in the live selection session a few hours ago, in which the host inevitably talked to Durant about the Nets' deal with Philadelphia, and Durant could only smile bitterly about Harden's departure: "I look forward to the new team and new members, we will run well." James on the side was also smiling bitterly, he hoped that the person being asked was himself, saying the same thing as Durant, and he would never smile bitterly and answer.
The Lakers lost to the bottom team of the league in the last game, the Blazers are currently panicked, playing badly to sell, playing well to sell, the team lineup is also scattered, but the Lakers led by Zhan Mei are stunned to lose to this Blazers. After the game, the Lakers were sprayed up and down with individual skinless skin, especially James, and this game James even began to show signs of turtlening, which really made fans upset. The recent bad team momentum + no-win deal has disappointed the public with this Lakers team, currently in the ninth place in the West, the Lakers who barely have a play-off qualification have long lost their ambitions at the beginning of the game.
Admittedly, the Lakers' days are getting harder and harder, with a middle-of-the-range team taking on top traffic attention. But no matter how hard life is, it always has to go on, and the Westbrook deal is also difficult to achieve in previous predictions, coupled with the thick eyebrows that are getting older at the speed of light and James, who is one year older, the Lakers are here this season. Although it is cruel, it is still necessary to tell Lakers fans not to hope for how good the Lakers have achieved, and it is enough to appreciate that James and Anthony, Howard, who were once overlords, are still fighting on the court, after all, the championship is every year, and the youth is only once.