The Lakers are all the time on the centre of commerce and free company rumors, particularly with LeBron James and Anthony Davis so clearly needing some assist.
Till right now, there hadn’t been a lot Lakers information of late, with all eyes on the Olympics. However ESPN’s Zach Lowe provided a promising little nugget for Lakers through the newest episode of his podcast, The Lowe Put up.
Lowe strongly advised that Path Blazers ahead Jerami Grant ending up in LA was inevitable.
“Ought to we begin printing the Jerami Grant-Lakers jerseys, by the way in which?” Lowe requested throughout a dialog with ESPN’s Tim McMahon. “Ought to we simply do it now? I believe… I would order one.”
Did Zach Lowe simply verify Jerami Grant to the Lakers?? pic.twitter.com/h7sgwd3oG0
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At 30 years previous and on a five-year yr, $160 million contract, Grant would make much more sense on a win-now group just like the Lakers, versus a younger rebuilding group just like the Blazers.
The query will likely be what Portland desires in change for Grant, and whether or not LA can supply sufficient.
One commerce chip the Lakers have is D’Angelo Russell, however based on The Athletic’s Jovan Buha, Russell received’t be a beneficial piece on this particular case.
“I’ve heard Portland doesn’t need D-Lo as a result of they’ve one million guards anyway,” Buha mentioned on his podcast “Buha’s Block” on July 26. “So, it simply doesn’t actually make sense for them.”
Talking with Heavy Sports activities’ Sean Deveney earlier this month, one Western Convention govt spoke concerning the complicating components in getting a Jermai Grant commerce completed.
“Jerami Grant can play, he’s a shooter, he is an effective, lively defender when he’s engaged, he’s going to do plenty of issues that assist your group. However he’s a 3rd choice. He has some huge numbers the previous couple of years, however he has completed it on horrible groups. Nobody goes to make an enormous commerce for a man who offers you 20 (factors) on a foul group and 13 (factors) on one.”
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