Lakers not expected to make push for Patrick Beverley trade with Talen Horton-Tucker, per report

Patrick Beverley is just like a veteran Los Angeles Lakers You need to target. He soon became the team’s best border defender. At 37.8 percent from behind Ark, he will also have the highest career 3 point percentage on the roster. He’s 34 years old and the Lakers emphasize this off-season youth, which makes him available at a reasonable price.He was sent to Utah Jazz As a cap filler for Rudy Gobert’s blockbuster.

Bleacher Report Jake Fisher Lakers (and Miami heat) I’m interested in the acquisition of Beverley, Markstein “There is no push from the Lakers to trade Talen Horton-Tucker (as rumored) for Patrick Beverley,” he said. In other words, the Lakers may want Beverly, but aren’t ready to give up Horton-Tucker, especially for him.

This is a rather common refrain from the Lakers front office and doesn’t always seem to want to sacrifice value to add good players. Obviously, if you want to get something good from another team, you have to be willing to give up something. Still, the Lakers have so far refused to sacrifice future first-round picks in Russell Westbrook’s trades unless Kyrie Irving is involved, yet the Lakers have one pick. Seems to limit the offer at.

They have been sticking to Horton-Tucker. Specifically, for years, despite little production from him. There were rumors that the 2021 deadline could be a contract with Kyle Lowry, but the Lakers eventually decided they didn’t want to surrender the young guards. Despite his incompatibility with Westbrook, he remains on the roster.

A more complex problem is that Horton-Tucker is one of the few ways the Lakers add salaries in transactions. With the exception of Westbrook, LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers have only three players. Lonnie Walker IV cannot be traded until December. Kendrick Nunn’s $ 5 million salary isn’t very profitable. However, Horton-Tucker costs $ 10.3 million and could bring in contributors like Beverly.

But the Lakers disagree. If they are afraid of Beverly’s injury history and age, that’s reasonable. But sooner or later this team will have to face the fact that the team is not going to do anything in their favor in the trading market. If they aren’t willing to sacrifice anything they have, they won’t do anything useful.