Grading the Last 5 Big LA Lakers Trades #nba #nbatrades #lakers
Let’s read the last five big LA Lakers trades they’ve made over the last few years. So, the first one is obviously a historic one where they traded for Luca Donic at the 2025 deadline. They’re getting an A+. They gave up Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 2029 first round pick for a global generational superstar in Luca Donic. A smaller trade they made a month before this was trading away D’Angelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis, and three second rounders for Dorian Finny Smith and Shake Milton. I’m going to give this one a C minus. Dorian Finny Smith just left the Lakers for nothing in free agency and giving up 3 seconds that you could use in a different trade down the line that hurts a little. We’re going to go back to the 2023 deadline where they had a sour dump a player we’ll get to later on as well. They got D’Angelo Russell from the Timberwolves, Belique Beasley, and Jared Vanderbolt from the Jazz to obviously dump Russell Westbrook and they gave up a 2027 top four protected firstrounder. Honestly, I’m going to give this trade a B minus. It thinks they had to salary dump Russ, but they got three rotational players and the Lakers made it to the conference finals that year. A couple weeks before that, they traded away three second rounders and Kendrick Nun for Rui Hashimura. I think that trade has worked out very well for the Lakers. And given what they gave up, I’m going to give that one an A minus. And maybe the worst trade that the Lakers have made over the last few years. They went all in on Russell Westbrook in the 2021 offseason. They gave up good role players around LeBron and AD like KCP, Kyle Kosma, and Montre Herald. Also traded away a 2021 firstrounder who like I just mentioned, they had a salary dump two years later. They didn’t make the playoffs in 2022. It was an utter disaster. Let me know if you agree with that or not.
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20 Comments
First
They just waived shake Milton to
DFS and Shake are gone and the lakers didn’t even make it past the first round when they had them, so I’d say a D or F
Nets
Did he just say Kyle Kuzma is a good role player?
Luka trade is a A+++++++++++++++++++
What makes Luka global generational talent he he doesn't play defense he's always hurt and he got traded from the team that drafted him and he got exposed last year by the Minnesota Timberwolves so again what makes hi global generation talent Y'all fanboys come over new stuff to kiss his ass with
Do it with the Spurs please
Do the Jazz
W idea more of these for all the teams!!
Dang, Maxwell Lewis just killed it in the summer league for Dallas too
They didn’t trade for Luka they were given Luka 😢🥀
Miami!
Do the Rockets, Warriors and Pelicans next
Anthony Davis trade A+
The bucks had a lot of big trades, you should do them next.
Very fair
The Westbrook trade might be the worst trade the Lakers have ever made, especially when you add the fact that they were supposed to get DeRozen instead. That basically killed any chance for LeBron to get another ring in his career.
Running out of content huh
They waived SHAKE & DFS 🙁