While other teams in the league are still competing fiercely in the playoffs, the Lakers, who exited early, have advanced into the offseason.
Among them, James, who went to Dubai for vacation, also posted his dynamics by the sea, which looks very comfortable and beautiful, but for the Lakers management, they will face a series of difficult and tedious lineup adjustments in this offseason.
The US media "HoopsHype" recently interviewed a number of anonymous executives of the alliance around this topic, and successively analyzed the situation of the Lakers.
Anonymous executives took the lead in talking about this season's Odds Munch, arguing that he expects to get a contract of around $6-10 million this summer.
The Lakers can currently offer up to $6.4 million in mid-class exceptions, and Munch is very willing to stay, but if a team gives too much of a contract, then the Lakers should be prepared for Munch's departure.
The second topic was about Westbrook, and executives agreed that Westbrook was a negative chip, but it was not necessarily impossible to send it out, because his contract was about to expire, making it easy to rebuild the team after a year of bad luck and free up space for the next three years.
Even so, in the eyes of most of the league's executives, Wei Shao's contract is still terrible, and the Lakers can only exchange Wei Shao for another pile of relatively small garbage contracts.
As for the buyout expected by the outside world, executives believe that it will not happen because the Lakers have just shaken off the impact of the original Luo Erdeng, and the team will not repeat the same mistakes.
Finally, he talked about Horton Tucker and Nunn, saying that if the Lakers did not pack two people and complete the first round of signing, it would be very surprising, because the two are the few chips that the Lakers can use to strengthen.
In response to this last report, the US media "nbaanalysis" also further supported the Lakers, giving 2 deals to pursue Rose.
Among them, the 2-for-1 plan cleans up Nunn, the 3-side 5-man plan, and the L.A. love first round.
Trading Scenario 1
Lakers get: Rose;
Knicks get: Tucker + Nunn.
For the Lakers, this plan is naturally one of the most ideal trade options, Horton Tucker's performance this season has been disappointing, Nunn has not played for the team all season, and the overall transaction value is very limited.
In contrast, although Rose has also been plagued by injuries this season, playing only 26 games, his ability in 26 games is very suitable for the Lakers.
Rose averaged 24.5 minutes per game, he could get 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, and his three-point shooting rate was as high as 40.2%, if it were not for injury factors, the Lakers would not have been able to get Rose through such chips.
Coupled with the Fact that the Lakers may not be able to keep Munch in the offseason, then trading Rose also adds a second ball-holding point to the Lakers bench to fill the vacancy after Munch leaves.
As long as Rose can stay healthy, he will inject energy into the Lakers bench.
In the past few seasons, he has proved in the Pistons and Knicks that he can fully play the role of Super Six.
Transaction Scenario 2
Lakers get: Rose;
Pistons get: Horton Tucker + Shamanic + McLaughan + 2024 first round (Knicks) + 2027 first round (Lakers);
Knicks get: Grant.
Compared with the previous trade plan, although the Lakers also got Rose, in this deal, the team paid a first-round pick, which is something that the Lakers need to measure.
After all, the Lakers still have to clean up Wei Shao's big contract, if the situation is the same as what a group of executives said, then the Lakers need to leave as few first-round signings as possible to deal with the pile of garbage contracts that Werechrow got after the completion of the Westbrook deal.
Moreover, according to Rose's health, it may not be worth the Lakers to pay for the first round of signing, after all, the Lakers' own health problems are already very serious, and the risk in this regard cannot be increased.