The Los Angeles Lakers find themselves in a tough spot. Their 33-win season in 2021-22 was a tremendous disappointment after having NBA title contention aspirations, yet they’ve got precious few avenues towards improvement.
This team is old, cap-strapped, and low on draft capital. It’s hard to say where they go from here. The only options that stand to make them better in 2022-23 are the nuclear ones.
Options like, for example, trading Anthony Davis.
It’s not necessarily an expected outcome of the summer. Plenty of players across the league find their names in trade rumors on a daily basis. Davis is not one of them.
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The organization may not be interested in trading him, but it sure feels like they have to do something this summer. Russell Westbrook isn’t likely to return value, and LeBron James is clearly untouchable.
The rest of this roster is relatively barren. It may be a long shot, but we wouldn’t rule a Davis trade out at the right price. Here are three that send him to the Dallas Mavericks.