{"id":23889,"date":"2025-01-07T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=23889"},"modified":"2025-01-07T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:33:42","slug":"report-trade-50-million-3-time-nba-all-star-open-to-lakers-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=23889","title":{"rendered":"REPORT TRADE: $50 Million 3-Time NBA All-Star Open to Lakers Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\">\n<h1 class=\"c-headline c-headline--extra-large entry-title\">$50 Million 3-Time NBA All-Star Open to Lakers Trade: Report<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__meta\">\n<div id=\"subscribe-form-416060384\" class=\"c-subscribe-form\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-form__overlay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2187944991-e1733479206270.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the few teams that Phoenix Suns star Bradley Beal is willing to waive his no-trade clause, according to John Gambodoro, the longtime Sports Radio Talk Show host of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for Beal the no-trade looms large. He could have [gone] to Milwaukee before he ended up in Phoenix but that was turned down. Have heard he would waive no trade for LA, Miami, Denver but I do believe there are a few others that he could ultimately decide work for him,\u201d Gambodoro wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The Beal experiment in Phoenix isn\u2019t working as the Suns moved the three-time NBA All-Star guard to the bench, along with veteran center Jusuf Nurkic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we just feel like we needed to make a change,\u201d Suns coach Mike Budenholzer told reporters, per The Arizona Republic\u2019s Duane Rankin, before their January 6 road game against the Philadelphia 76ers. \u201cThroughout a 48-minute game, you gotta figure out your best combinations, your best ways to try and have success.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey are two important players to us, two very good players for us, we just felt like we needed to make a change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suns Forcing Bradley Beal\u2019s Hand?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Budenholzer maintained the change was a product of their four-game losing streak, league observers view it as the Suns\u2019 way of forcing Beal to waive his no-trade clause to pave the way for their pursuit of Miami Heat\u2019s disgruntled star Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns are the \u201cmost interested team\u201d in the Butler sweepstakes, according to NBA insider Marc Stein. They would have to need Beal to waive his no-trade clause to make a trade possible.<\/p>\n<p>However, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported on the January 6 episode of the \u201cNBA Today\u201d that \u201cBradley Beal contract is a non-starter right now\u201d for the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns would need a third team to absorb Beal\u2019s remaining three years worth $160 million of his five-year, $251 million max contract in a Butler trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lakers Not Hunting for a Third Star<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers could technically trade for Beal. However, it would gut out nearly half of their roster to match Beal\u2019s $50.2 million salary for this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are also not eyeing to add a third star after the failed Russell Westbrook experiment, according to Los Angeles Times\u2019 Dan Woike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of frantically hunting for a third star or pushing chips in on a starting-caliber center, the Lakers, rival executives believe, will move in different ways than it might\u2019ve seemed earlier this season,\u201d Woike wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Max Christie\u2018s rise as a defensive lynchpin in the Lakers backcourt has sparked their rebound from a rough stretch as they won eight of their next 11 games before his costly inbound play turnover late in the game of their 119-115 loss to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers would like to wait for Gabe Vincent and Jarred Vanderbilt\u2019s return to fully evaluate their roster after the acquisitions of Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton before making a move, Woike added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backup Big Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are looking to add another center to ease the burden of Anthony Davis.<\/p>\n<p>According to HoopsHype\u2019s Michael Scotto, the Lakers are still trying to acquire Washington Wizards center Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving acquired the wing defender they sought in Finney-Smith, the next item for the Lakers on their list is a backup center,\u201d Scotto reported. \u201cThe Lakers will continue to try and acquire Wizards center Jonas Valanciunas or another backup center on the trade market with their remaining future second-round draft capital, and Gabe Vincent is expected to be dangled in talks as well, league sources told HoopsHype.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers\u2019 other big man option, Utah Jazz\u2019s Walker Kessler, is \u201cnot available in any realistic trade scenarios,\u201d according to Woike.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the two big men, the Lakers have also registered interest in Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 Robert Williams III and Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$50 Million 3-Time NBA All-Star Open to Lakers Trade: Report The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the few teams that Phoenix Suns star Bradley Beal is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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