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Lakers Nation Podcast

The Ideal Lakers Offseason: All In

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Basketball, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this bonus episode, we break down what the Lakers' ideal offseason would look like if they go all in on winning right now... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Game goal is for the win.

0:06.2

Oh, it's going to win.

0:07.1

2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:15.4

Hello Lakers Nation.

0:16.9

Welcome in.

0:17.5

Trevor Lane here for LakersNation.com.

0:19.4

You're home for everything Lakers. And this is the ideal offseason. I do this every year. Breakdown what a perfect summer would look like for the purple and gold. Now, I will say that there are different versions of this because there has to be the Lakers this summer don't necessarily have just one path to choose. Do they decide to go all-land

0:38.3

and try to win right now? Do they decide to preserve some future draft capital or cap space moving

0:43.4

forward? Do they trade Russell Westbrook? Do they not? Anyway, there's lots of different paths that

0:47.9

the Lakers can pick here. So I'm going to do a few different versions. Today, we're doing the all-in

0:53.2

off-season. So that means that I am willing to

0:55.6

trade anything that is not bolted down in order to help the Lakers win right now. Future draft

1:01.9

picks, future cap space, all of it. It's on the table. And we're going to make some moves to

1:06.2

try to help the Lakers win a championship in 2023 and some moves that come August, LeBron James is going to look at

1:12.0

this roster and he's going to say, yep, I am signing this extension. So let's dive into it. First

1:18.6

and foremost, we need to know what we are working with. So this Lakers roster as it stands right now,

1:24.1

you've got Russell Westbrook, Austin Reeves, Kendrick Nunn. I know some people might say,

1:28.3

well, Austin Reeves isn't really a point guard. I threw him up there because when I interviewed

1:31.9

him a week ago, he talked about wanting to be an initiator for the offense. Nothing to quibble over,

1:37.1

though. If you put him at shooting guard, put him wherever you want. This is just the roster as it

1:40.9

stands. Taleb Horton Tucker is still on the roster for the time being.

1:44.3

LeBron James, Stanley Johnson, Anthony Davis, and Wenian Gabriel. That's what the Lakers are working with as of this moment. Not really a lot to work with there in terms of trade chips. And we, of course, know the Lakers don't have future first round picks to trade until 2027 and 2029. And in terms of cap room,

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