The Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves are all swapping point guards and more in a reported three-team trade, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
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Since the Lakers traded a bevy of role players to the Washington Wizards for Westbrook, they have gone 58-79 in the regular season and are currently on track to miss the playoffs for a second straight year. Despite LeBron James and Anthony Davis' reported advocacy for acquiring him, Westbrook's ball-dominant style proved to be an awful stylistic fit in an offense that usually wants James controlling the floor.
Rumors swirled around a potential trade early in Westbrook's first year as a Laker, but his enormous contract, with a $44 million salary in 2021-22 and $47 million player option in 2022-23, and the Lakers' lack of assets made the idea a hard sell to other teams. Russell's career started with the Lakers as the second overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, but was traded to the Brooklyn Nets in 2017 for a variety of reasons . Russell reached All-Star status in Brooklyn, then landed with the Golden State Warriors as part of the sign-and-trade deal that brought Kevin Durant to the Nets. Russell's Warriors career turned out to be short-lived, as the Warriors traded him to Minnesota after a half-season as part of the Andrew Wiggins deal.
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