{"id":44612,"date":"2025-03-19T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44612"},"modified":"2025-03-19T07:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:05:30","slug":"report-trade-the-lakers-are-expected-to-look-to-trade-for-kevin-durant-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44612","title":{"rendered":"REPORT TRADE: The Lakers are expected to look to trade for Kevin Durant this offseason."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3142,h_1767,x_0,y_74\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/si\/01jpgazf9rhb2742kkp4.jpg\" alt=\"Mics Caught Kevin Durant's Defeated Message About Luka Doncic During Lakers -Suns\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are up big against the Phoenix Suns at halftime with a nearly 20-point lead over Kevin Durant and Co.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers have dropped their last four games but appear determined to right the ship Sunday, with star Luka Doncic stepping up while LeBron James continues to recover from a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic, who currently has 17 points, six assists and three rebounds at the half, hasn&#8217;t wasted any time terrorizing the Suns while donning the Lakers&#8217; threads instead of his old Dallas Mavericks ones.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovenian star guard hit a nasty step-back three over Durant early in the game and has generally made life pretty difficult for the Suns, who are sitting 11th in the West desperately looking to secure a play-in spot.<\/p>\n<p>During the game, a mic&#8217;d up Durant had a sobering message for his teammates about how to guard Doncic:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to stop [Doncic] from scoring, bro,&#8221; Durant said on the bench. &#8220;We can&#8217;t come into a game and just stop their best players from scoring. We gotta just make it tough on him. We can&#8217;t give him 12 assists and 40 points though.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to stop him from scoring&#8230; we&#8217;ve gotta make it tough on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant gave Luka Don\u010di\u0107 high praise while mic&#8217;d up on ABC \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/d2BLrfz1xw<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) March 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if Durant and the Suns can crawl their way back into this game in the second half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are up big against the Phoenix Suns at halftime with a nearly 20-point lead over Kevin Durant and Co. 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