LOS ANGELES -- After a quiet trade deadline on Thursday, Los Angeles Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka explained his team's inactivity.
"You can't buy a house that's not for sale," Pelinka said before L.A.'s 114-106 loss to the Denver Nuggets. "We spend a lot of time looking for ways to use assets to make our team better. But the right move wasn't there."
The Lakers, despite countless calls -- both outgoing and incoming -- in the days and weeks leading up to the deadline were not particularly close on any deals on Thursday, sources told ESPN.