Ramona Shelburne The Lakers have also in recent trade conversations that shown an unwillingness to add salary beyond this year because they're trying to preserve as much space for next year You have to give the Lakers a reason to do it

Amick Rob Pelinka and the Los Angeles Lakers are unlikely to make a trade before Thursdays NBA Trade Deadline

Lakers GM Rob Pelinka on the trade deadline I would say we were aggressive And one form of being aggressive is saying no thats like being aggressive even though you end up doing nothing because its hard to say no sometimes to getting a good player

Windhorst The Los Angeles Lakers will likely ask LeBron James to take a potentially significant pay cut if James wishes to remain in LA There are several different ways the Cleveland Cavaliers could sign James in the offseason

Mannix The Lakers believe they can succeed with a backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves if they can get the right type of players in the front court They are looking to build a Dallas 20 type roster similar to what Luka had when he went to the NBA Finals

Haynes Teams were calling the Clippers to try and pry Kawhi Leonard away at the trade deadline Leonard is focused on finishing the season strong and will discuss his future with the franchise in the Summer

Scotto Domantas Sabonis trade talks between the Kings and Raptors which would include RJ Barrett and Ochai Agbaji to Sacramento have paused Toronto is concerned about giving up too much first-round draft pick compensation to move Jakob Poeltl to a third team