Making a trade in the NBA is very complicated, especially since it all has to work with the salary cap.
Hey everyone and welcome to the Times Lakers Newsletter. No clever opening this week. I hope all of you are safe from these awful fires. Please stay informed whether with The Times or with local government agencies. Anyways, on to the basketball. I, dear reader, am no better than many of you. I too love going on one of the many internet contraptions and plugging in players and contracts trying to cook up the perfect trade for the Lakers.
And if you’re trading a player on an expiring minimum deal to a team with no plans for that player , well, you pay for that with picks and/or cash too. None of this even accounts for the depth issues you create when you start bundling two, three or four of these players in trades to gut a rotation in order to return a bigger salary. Now this shouldn’t keep you from trying to solve the puzzle — it’s not going to stop me. But, it should serve a reminder that this is, in fact, a complicated puzzle.
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