The Lakers are all the time on the centre of commerce and free company rumors, particularly with LeBron James and Anthony Davis so clearly needing some assist.
Till at present, there hadn’t been a lot Lakers information of late, with all eyes on the Olympics. However ESPN’s Zach Lowe supplied a promising little nugget for Lakers through the newest episode of his podcast, The Lowe Publish.
Lowe strongly recommended that Path Blazers ahead Jerami Grant ending up in LA was inevitable.
“Ought to we begin printing the Jerami Grant-Lakers jerseys, by the way in which?” Lowe requested throughout a dialog with ESPN’s Tim McMahon. “Ought to we simply do it now? I feel… I would order one.”
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At 30 years previous and on a five-year yr, $160 million contract, Grant would make much more sense on a win-now group just like the Lakers, versus a younger rebuilding group just like the Blazers.
The query might be what Portland desires in alternate for Grant, and whether or not LA can provide sufficient.
One commerce chip the Lakers have is D’Angelo Russell, however based on The Athletic’s Jovan Buha, Russell received’t be a helpful piece on this particular case.
“I’ve heard Portland doesn’t need D-Lo as a result of they’ve one million guards anyway,” Buha mentioned on his podcast “Buha’s Block” on July 26. “So, it simply doesn’t actually make sense for them.”
Talking with Heavy Sports activities’ Sean Deveney earlier this month, one Western Convention govt spoke in regards to the complicating elements in getting a Jermai Grant commerce finished.
“Jerami Grant can play, he’s a shooter, he is an effective, lively defender when he’s engaged, he’s going to do a whole lot of issues that assist your group. However he’s a 3rd choice. He has some large numbers the previous few years, however he has finished it on horrible groups. Nobody goes to make an enormous commerce for a man who offers you 20 (factors) on a nasty group and 13 (factors) on a very good one.”
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