Charania Zach LaVine's injury recovery coincidentally lines up with the mid-January date Jan 15th where D'Angelo Russell and Rui Hachimura will be eligible for trade Lakers and 76ers expected to have interest in trading for LaVine

Charania The Lakers have made it clear that they want him back but the one thing I do know is that multiple contenders are already circling If LeBron is really going to hit the open market and decide and have a true free agency he's not going to have a shortage of teams

The Lakers have been linked to Thunder guard Lu Dort as a potential trade target to pair with Luka Doncic

Windhorst The Los Angeles Lakers would be very open to the prospect of trading LeBron James for Jarrett Allen

Charania I'm told over the last 24-48 hours the Lakers came to the understanding that Austin Reaves had multiple max contracts available to him in free agency The Detroit Pistons were coming aggressively for him So that's why today the Lakers stepped up to give him this deal

Charania I do know a lot of teams are calling LeBron and his camp I spoke to Rich Paul last week and he told me every contender in the NBA has essentially placed a call since the season ended

Charania Multiple teams are strongly pursuing LaMelo Ball and the Hornets are engaged in talks