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NBA Trade Rumors: Can the Lakers offer any value for Walker Kessler?

The Los Angeles Lakers are at it again, as they’re reportedly showing great interest in trading for Utah’s Walker Kessler.

A LeBron James-led team will always stand in the forefront of NBA trade rumors, due to a persisting fallacy that they’re constantly “one move away” from becoming a championship contender. The target of their Amazon doom-scrolling shopping spree? Walker Kessler of the Utah Jazz.

But here’s the catch: in order to trade for a talented player, you need to provide significant value of your own—especially when you’re dealing with Danny Ainge, the guy who got 5 first-round picks and a bundle of players for a 30-year-old Rudy Gobert.