Let’s start with what we know, because that’s always easiest. According to The Atheltic’s Shams Charania, the Lakers are frontrunners to sign Markieff Morris, who was recently bought out by the Detroit Pistons. Look, he tweeted it right here:
What else do we know? Let’s get the basic stuff out of the way first:
- The Lakers were interested in making a move at the trade deadline, but for a variety of reasons — not liking the proposed deals, not wanting to disrupt chemistry, not wanting to create new holes on the roster while filling/upgrading a current one — did not make a deal.