The Lakers Are The Biggest Loser Of Trade Deadline

The Los Angeles Lakers just traded Michael Beasley and Ivica Zubac to the Clippers in exchange for Mike Muscala. This trades opens a roster spot for the Lakers to potentially sign a buyout contact. Ultimately, the Lakers are the biggest loser of the trade deadline. The Lakers didn’t trade for Anthony Davis and the fear around the league is that the Pelicans did this to try to ruin the Lakers chemistry.  The Lakers offered most of their young core and half of their starting lineup for Anthony Davis, which could be really damaging to a player. An example would be Dennis Smith Jr who Dallas tried to trade but didn’t. Then Smith forced Dallas to trade him to the Knicks. This could happen to the Lakers since the young core knows they are tradable and management will trade them in a heartbeat for the right player. This also causes the Lakers to fail to trade for another big player, Davis is on the same list as Kwahi Leonard, and Paul George for players who the Lakers have failed to trade for. The Lakers are by far the biggest losers of this trade deadline with Anthony Davis not coming, and the potential of the Lakers ruining their chemistry. Their best bet now is to sign Carmelo Anthony in the next couple of days and hope they make a push late into the playoffs to convince free agents to come to Los Angeles.