It’s abundantly clear at this point what the Los Angeles Lakers have to accomplish, either in the days leading up to the trade deadline, or once it has passed and the buyout market starts to pick up. If you’ve been paying attention at all to any of the trade noise around the league, you also likely know the offer Rob Pelinka has sent to roughly (if not more than) half the NBA.
The combination of those two understandings have led to more of a steady trickle rather than full on deluge of Lakers trade rumors. This week on “The Hook,” Aaron Larsuel and I explained some of why the Lakers haven’t appeared in many of the recent trade rumor roundups.