{"id":332360,"date":"2026-05-26T02:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332360\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:30:23","slug":"the-los-angeles-lakers-finally-trade-former-tennessee-vols-guard-dalton-knecht-in-latest-proposal-from-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332360\/","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers finally trade former Tennessee Vols guard Dalton Knecht in latest proposal from ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Volunteers fans have been itching for the Los Angeles Lakers to trade former UT standout guard Dalton Knecht. Vols fans may finally get their wish this offseason.<\/p>\n

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A new trade proposal from ESPN<\/a> has the Los Angeles Lakers finally trading former Tennessee Vols guard Dalton Knecht this offseason. <\/p>\n

The proposal has the Lakers trading Knecht, Jarred Vanderbilt, and a first-round pick to the Dallas Mavericks for Daniel Gafford. <\/p>\n

At this point, playing for any team other than the Lakers would be a huge plus for Knecht\u2019s career. <\/p>\n

The Lakers have badly misused Dalton Knecht<\/p>\n

The former Vol has been incredibly misused during his time with the Lakers. Knecht has seen uneven playing time, he\u2019s been shuttled to the G-League, and then called up just to sit on the bench<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Knecht proved as a rookie that he can be an effective scorer in the NBA. The Colorado native famously scored 37 points just a month into his pro career in 2024. <\/p>\n

But for whatever reason, the Lakers have made the decision to treat Knecht like a journeyman role player instead of someone they need to develop. <\/p>\n

Knecht averaged 4.2 points while playing 10.2 minutes per game this past season. That\u2019s down from 9.1 points and 19.2 minutes per game during Knecht\u2019s rookie season. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible as a young player to find any sort of rhythm while barely playing. I\u2019m not saying the Lakers should\u2019ve been featuring Knecht over the last two seasons, but they could\u2019ve found a consistent role for him off the bench, and he undoubtedly would\u2019ve been able to help the team. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s clearly not going to happen for Knecht in LA. The Lakers have telegraphed exactly how they feel about the former Vol. That\u2019s why the best thing that can happen this offseason for Knecht is that he\u2019s traded. It doesn\u2019t even matter where he lands, just as long as it\u2019s a team other than the Lakers. <\/p>\n

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Tennessee Volunteers News<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhile everyone watches Arkansas, another SEC program has quietly put itself in a strong position to hire Giants manager Tony Vitello\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of speculation that former Tennessee Vols baseball coach Tony Vitello, who is in his first season as the manager of the San Francisco Giants, will eventually return to the college game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Volunteers fans have been itching for the Los Angeles Lakers to trade former UT standout guard Dalton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,16064],"class_list":["post-332360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-tennessee-vols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}