Karmaloop wrote:Ell Curry wrote:Hah, yeah, that makes sense. KCP, Goga and #16 for Reaves, Vincent + Kleber/Vanderbilt is interesting. Magic don't really throw out a premium asset and get Reaves to help their terrible offence. Suggs-Reaves-Wagner-Banchero and then maybe go all in on a center with your big "Mitchell to Utah/Gobert to Minny" trade and that might be a contender. Or go all-in on a guard/wing and make Reaves the 6th man after you pay him and stick with Carter Jr at center.
Lakers still have #16, Vanderbilt/Kleber and Hachimura or Finney Smith to trade for a 30M starter, maybe a guard: Guard-KCP-Luka-Lebron-Goga with Rui/DFS as the 6th man and a 5.7M signing (best free agent who will take that offer) as the 7th man. Then need to find the 8th and final rotation guy out of scraps/developmental projects I guess?
That doesn't really make a ton of sense for the Lakers unless they can somehow flip that 16th pick and salary filler for a legitimate player. KCP is a bad contract, and Goga collected 2 DNPs in the playoffs. This screams like take a bad contract off of my hands (KCP) and a middling pick for a good, young, cheap guard.
Goga would still be a massive upgrade for the Lakers and #16 is a decent pick. Agreed on KCP being a negative, that extra year would be sticky in terms of moving him out with #16 for a guard at say the deadline from some tanking team.
But value-wise, 1 cheap Reaves year for 2 cheap Goga Years + #16 feels like a win for the Lakers for me.
Hard to say if KCP is washed or he could have 1-2 more solid years left with Luka and LeBron getting him good looks from 3. Might be asking a lot for him to be the #1 perimeter defender, though, which would probably be the case unless the trade brought back a good defender.
I think it all depends on who will take a paycut to live in L.A for a year this summer. If it's a solid big who is as good as Goga for example, then this trade makes no sense. If it's say Bruce Brown, you still need a big.