Zach Lowe: ‘I think both the L.A. teams are going to be sniffing around Kemba Walker’ https://t.co/Y4CwVvyGDb
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Zach Lowe: ‘I think both the L.A. teams are going to be sniffing around Kemba Walker’
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July 2, 2021 2 Comments
Both the Clippers and Lakers have been linked to Kemba and Spence.
The problem with going after Kemba Walker is he makes $36 million, which means the Lakers would need to include both KCP and Kuzma to even get close to matching salaries, leaving no trading chips other than their free agents to upgrade any other position.
Going after Dinwiddie creates a different problem, which is he is looking for the same level of money as Schroder ($25M/Year) and suffers some of the same problems as Dennis, namely he can’t even shoot 30% from deep and has an assist-to-turnover ratio of only 2.17. You would have to send Kuzma and KCP, our only two tradeable contracts of any size, in order to match salaries.
The Lakers need to fill both guard spots, ideally by trading KCP for one one guard and Kuzma for the second guard. Can’t do that when the guard makes $36M or even $25M as Kuzma and KCP only earn $13M. Lakers need to make Schroder and Harrell trading chips.