Why The Los Angeles Lakers Do The Deal

In all likelihood, this deal won’t even be on the table for the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Jazz are far more likely to pursue a traditional rebuilding package in exchange for Mitchell. If they’re moving their star guard, they’ll probably seek to maximize their draft capital so as to have the right to choose their next franchise player.

Furthermore, they’ll probably opt to bottom out ahead of the 2023 draft. With that said, if they’d rather pivot towards Davis, the Lakers should oblige.

After all, with the 37-year-old James leading the charge, their window is narrow. Unlike Davis, they can be confident that Mitchell will produce at a star level in 2022-23. In fact, he should form one of the best offensive duos in the league in tandem with James.

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The Lakers will need more moves. They’d likely need to pursue a player to make up some of Davis’ rim protection. If they could, this deal could get them back to title contention.