The Los Angeles Lakers, still apparently reeling from not finding any trades at the deadline, now have to turn their attention to the buyout market, during which teams have to cut players by March 1 in order to be eligible for the playoffs with their new team. The issue is, if they are to get involved with any such signings, they’ll have to have something Jeanie Buss specifically did not want this year: dead money on the books.
Rob Pelinka said yesterday that the Lakers would be aggressive in the buyout market and, yeah, given that everyone knows the Lakers still have to improve and this is the only way to do so, that makes sense.