On Monday, The Athletic’s Shams Charania kicked off the week of the 2022 NBA Draft with a report on what could be the most polarizing player of this offseason (and of recent NBA memory) in Kyrie Irving. And, as it almost always happens, the Lakers were connected to the most tantalizing potential movement of the summer as Charania noted the team could be an “interested suitor” in trying to acquire Kyrie with his talks to return to the Brooklyn Nets currently at an “impasse.”
The Clippers and Knicks were also mentioned as potentially interested parties as free agency has officially become interesting now that Kyrie Irving could be switching teams.