{"id":438734,"date":"2026-01-28T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438734\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:52:08","slug":"nba-trade-deadline-what-moves-might-lakers-or-clippers-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438734\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA trade deadline: What moves might Lakers or Clippers make?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BT: From talking to NBA executives and scouts who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, the most likely scenario for the Lakers is to make moves along the margins. NBA people say the Lakers are looking for big wing players, but they said so is most of the league.<\/p>\n

According to some of those NBA folks, the names that have been attached to the Lakers as potential trade targets are Dallas\u2019 Naji Marshall, a former Doncic teammate, Cleveland\u2019s De\u2019Andre Hunter, Minnesota\u2019s Donte DiVincenzo and Sacramento\u2019s Keon Ellis. New Orleans\u2019 Troy Murphy III and Herbert Jones are two players the Lakers have shown some interest in \u2014 as have many other teams \u2014 but NBA people say the asking price is so high that teams are waiting to see if that comes down by the deadline next week.<\/p>\n

\"Mavericks <\/p>\n

Mavericks forward Naji Marshall pulls up for a jump shot against Lakers forward Jake LaRavia on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Julio Cortez \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

To make any of these deals, the NBA executives and scouts said, Lakers forward Rui Hachimura<\/a> and his expiring $18-million contract is a name that comes up often as a tradeable player. Hachimura\u2019s recent outstanding play has increased his trade value around the league, but it also has made the forward a very valuable player for the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Lakers seldom-used guard Dalton Knecht has been a player that NBA people say L.A. is willing to move in a trade, along with a second-round pick attached to him to make it work.<\/p>\n

TN: Knecht was playing with a lot of confidence through a brief stretch of this season, exhibited most by him taking charges in consecutive games against the Pelicans and the Spurs. But the Lakers have already shown they are comfortable parting with the former 17th overall pick. He was sent to Charlotte last year before the Mark Williams trade fell through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> BT: From talking to NBA executives and scouts who were not authorized to speak publicly on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[181980,11609,49,48,8840,2695,8228,5407,181979,459,181978,25583,6903,82,2341,181981,7589,1215],"class_list":["post-438734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-big-name","tag-bt","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clippers","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-lakers","tag-league-fighting","tag-nba","tag-nba-people","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-three-team-deal","tag-tn","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}