It’s remarkably hard to logically find a way to get Kyrie Irving to the Lakers this off-season that doesn’t involve some wild assumptions or leaps of faith, but the rumors, which began on Monday, aren’t going away and seem to be picking up steam.
With Irving and the Nets in a standoff of sorts, the Lakers are amongst the teams monitoring the situation with an interest in acquiring Irving. But their wholesale lack of assets to trade for him makes it a situation that makes it remarkably improbable.
And yet, on Wednesday, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN appeared on NBA Today and called the Lakers “the most significant threat” for Kyrie.