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<\/p>\nThe NBA offseason is only a few days away, and soon, chaos will commence.<\/p>\n
There have already been a handful of moves this offseason that have certainly sent ripples of effect across the league.<\/p>\n
Many teams and players will be at the forefront of the offseason, but none may be bigger than the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n
The Lakers already made waves by selling their team to Mark Walter for $10 billion (and possibly more). Now they are set to make massive moves to their roster to bolster it.<\/p>\n
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That’s priority No. 1 for the Lakers, and there’s a chance that their top guard, Austin Reaves, could be on his way out in order to bolster other needs on the roster.<\/p>\n
Reaves is a potential trade candidate for the Lakers, depending on what Los Angeles receives in return.<\/p>\n
As for this massive trade proposal by Zach Buckely of Bleacher Report, he has the Lakers trading Reaves ot the Detroit Pistons in exchange for a top-notch center they desperately need.<\/p>\n
Detroit Pistons receive: Austin Reaves Los Angeles Lakers receive: Jalen Duren, Simone Fontecchio and the No. 37 pick “Could they see Reaves as the missing piece of their offensive puzzle?<\/p>\n
They have to at least consider it. Other than Cunningham, they didn’t have anyone average even 16 points in their first-round loss to the New York Knicks. Reaves, who’s had a tendency to slow down in the postseason, has averaged better than 16 points in all three of his career playoff trips.<\/p>\n
“Reaves is a good enough shooter to share the floor with Cunningham and a clever enough creator to keep the offense moving without him. The fact Reaves is a plus-shooter from distance should look especially appealing to Detroit, since there are non-shooters in its young core (Ausar Thompson, Ronald Holland II) and net-shredders among its free agents (Malik Beasley, Tim Hardaway Jr.). “<\/em><\/p>\n Only the Lakers know whether Duren qualifies as the impact big they’re after, but they did give him a look before the deadline.<\/p>\n With his bounce and underrated vision, he could be a dream pick-and-roll partner with L.A.’s creators.<\/p>\n Fontecchio struggled this past season, but he was a dead-eye shooter in 2023-24 (134 threes at a 40.1 percent clip).”<\/p>\n The Lakers may lose their top-scoring guard in this scenario, but they gain a dominant presence like Jalen Duren to man the middle and provide the big man they lacked in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n Duran is a reliable and physical center. He’s also only 21 years old for the up-and-coming Pistons squad.<\/p>\n He is coming off a stellar season for Detroit, averaging 11.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks, which is a career-high, in 78 games.<\/p>\n The potential loss of Reaves would undoubtedly hurt the Lakers’ offense, but adding a big like Duren and the Pistons receiving an offensive threat like Reaves would do wonders for their title hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NBA offseason is only a few days away, and soon, chaos will commence. There have already been a handful of moves this offseason that have certainly… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"\n