Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[DanSchwartzgan]

One thing to add to all of this...I'm not sure the team is nearly as picky as many of us.  In the last year or so we've heard interest in or heard they actually made offers for:

J. Collins
Ayton
Capela
Naz R.
Thybulle
PJ Washington
J. Grant
Siakam

And probably some others that have slipped my mind.  The addition of GWill doesn't seem to have stopped the rumor mill regarding players with size.

It may be that Dallas just wants to add talent and the specifics of the deal are more important than the specifics of the player.  Thybulle is a little smaller than the rest and the need for Capela/Ayton has probably been reduced or eliminated given their salaries.  That leaves Collins (old news), Naz R., PJ, Grant and Siakam.  All are more about scoring than D (which means you probably can't eliminate someone like Kuzma from the list).

We aren't exactly hurting for scoring, which tells me we aren't hunting an O for D trade.  We are hunting a smaller scoring for bigger scoring trade.  

PS:  talk of trading Kyrie right now is a waste of everyone's time outside of a theoretical discussion of value.  It isn't going to happen.


Edit: And now Jake Fisher is reporting that Dallas is actively talking with several teams and is shopping THJ/Holmes.