{"id":758648,"date":"2026-06-25T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:00:11","slug":"lakers-acquire-no-56-pick-in-trade-with-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758648\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers acquire No. 56 pick in trade with Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Lakers will be involved in the second round of the draft on Wednesday after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to Shams Charania of ESPN, the Lakers have traded for the No. 56 pick in the draft, sending the Bulls cash considerations in exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That latter trade could come up again this season. Getting a foot in the door with a second round pick is the first step and now the front office and ownership can start moving up the draft if a player they value is still on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to NBA beat writer Jake Fischer, it looks like the Lakers will try to repeat that sequence again this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Lakers are flexing their financial muscle this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\/lakers-draft-rumors-news\/119892\/lakers-2026-nba-draft-cameron-carr-baylor-knicks-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trading cash to the Knicks to move up one spot<\/a> from the No. 25 pick to the No. 24 pick. There is a finite amount of money a team can trade in each league year, but the figures involved in LA\u2019s trade with the Knicks on Tuesday, or in this trade, are not known, so it\u2019s unclear how much money they have left to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, this is the benefit of having an owner in Mark Walter who is willing to spend. If the team has money to spend, there\u2019s no upside to not spending it. The Lakers are a team in need of athleticism and young talent and they\u2019re using money to move up in the draft and acquire players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s always hard to project how things will play in the second round of the draft, so it\u2019ll be hard to know who might be available with the No. 56 pick. But don\u2019t be surprised if this is the first of a couple of deals for the Lakers on the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers will be involved in the second round of the draft on Wednesday after all. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,362554,172267,85],"class_list":["post-758648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-lakers-draft","tag-lakers-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}