The Los Angeles Lakers are in the precarious position of needing to make a needle-moving trade without much flexibility to do so. At present, 10 of their 15 players are on minimum contracts. They can’t pile enough of those up to match meaningful returning salary — and these aren’t young players teams are clamoring to get their hands on anyway.
There could be one exception: Talen Horton-Tucker.
Tucker, who is on the books for $9.5 million this season, is one of the Lakers’ five non-minimum salary players, and though his trade value has likely declined since this time last season when he was being talked about as something close premium asset, he’s still in relative demand and by far the biggest chip the Lakers have to play.
In the past, the Lakers have been resistant to dealing Horton-Tucker. They kept him out of discussions for Kyle Lowry last season. But it appears they are coming around to the reality…
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