The NBA's regular season is nearing its end, teams are beginning to target the slot, throughout the season, the biggest disappointment to fans is the Los Angeles Lakers.
Lakers in last year's offseason, the Lakers with Harrell, Kuzma and Pop and other people from the Wizards traded to get Wei Shao, and James, thick eyebrows, together with the formation of a new big three, originally thought the Lakers will have a good season, but did not expect that the Lakers are now fighting for the playoff quota bloody.
And the reason for this situation in the Lakers, many fans and media will push the responsibility to Wei Shao, although the decline in Wei Shao's state is also one of the reasons for the decline in the Lakers' record, but the responsibility is not only on Wei Shao, after all, a team loses, there will definitely be many factors.
The American media, which has not been optimistic about the Lakers, has begun to discuss the Lakers' off-season operations.
Recently, Jake Fischer, a reporter for "Open Air Stand", participated in the famous Stein podcast, and when talking about thick eyebrows, Fischer said: "I don't think the Lakers will [trade him] at all, judging from the information I got and the high price they paid to get Davis from the Pelicans." The Lakers are still focused on the combination of Davis and James, as long as they can still coexist. I would be very shocked if they chose to break up the duo. ”
At present, if the Lakers trade james and one of the thick eyebrows, then this Lakers team basically has no hope, after all, the Zhan Mei combination has had the experience of winning the championship together.
Speaking about Westbrook, Fisher said: "For weeks, we've really been talking about the idea of buying out and deferring his contract for next season. But based on the information I've gotten, this is unlikely to happen. Anything could change, but in my opinion, the Lakers aren't going to clog up their future salary space for the sake of Westbrook. ”
In the following offseason, Westbrook will become a very difficult problem for the Lakers to deal with, and after a season of hard work, it has proved that It is difficult for Westbrook to integrate into this team.
Westbrook's salary this season is as high as $44.21 million, next season's salary is as high as $47.06 million, and the player options are in hand, the Lakers want to deal with Westbrook through the transaction, it is basically impossible, but in the face of the buyout problem, the Lakers have suffered a big loss in front of Rolle Deng, until this season, the Lakers also have to pay Roll Deng a salary of nearly $5 million, and these are occupying the Lakers' salary space, at present, Westbrook's salary is much higher than Luol Deng, I believe that the Lakers management will definitely be very cautious in buying out Wei Shao, after all, Wei Shao's salary is too high, if the buyout, the Lakers' plan to strengthen in the offseason is basically a fantasy.
In any case, whether this year's offseason can make a difference can only depend on how Pelinka operates, after all, James's age is one year older, which reduces the probability of the future Lakers to win the championship.