Done Deal: Lakers finally trade D’Angelo Russell for a $85 million deal to Pelicans…
The Los Angeles Lakers will have to find ways to improve their roster after missing out on Klay Thompson and others in the early stages of free agency.
With trade assets to improve their roster, Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report found a deal that’d do just that.
He proposed a deal that’d send three important assets for Bruce Brown of the Toronto Raptors. Buckley’s proposal would move D’Angelo Russell and more.
Raptors would get: Russell, Jalen Hood-Schifino, 2025 second-round pick via LAC
“The Raptors need someone to see Brown as their dot-connecting missing piece, and maybe the Lakers would seek out this kind of shake-up,” Buckley wrote on July 10.
“They’ve never seemed fully comfortable with Russell, they hardly played Hood-Schifino as a rookie and they can’t be too closely committed to that second-rounder.
“Toronto, though, might sense Hood-Schifino has a chance to thrive in a more patient, development-focused environment than L.A. It also wouldn’t scoff at picking up another second-rounder, even if it probably won’t be a great one.
As for Russell, he’d help perk up the scoring and shooting, but really, he’d probably just slide into Brown’s spot as a serviceable veteran waiting for a win-now shopper to make its move for him.”
