The intentions of the Los Angeles Lakers front office in the lead-up to Thursday’s trade deadline are increasingly a mystery in the face of a range of NBA trade rumors featuring the team as the final hours of trade season approach.
There have been rumors that the Lakers are “50-50” to make a deal featuring Jordan Clarkson and/or Julius Randle and other scuttlebutt that the team is re-shifting it’s focus to building for 2019 free agency rather than desperately trying to clear space for the 2018 class.
And now, with only slightly more than a day to go before the trade deadline, Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders is reporting that the Lakers are the “favorites” to land Phoenix Suns forward Marquese Chriss.