{"id":26714,"date":"2025-07-21T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26714\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:32:07","slug":"the-chatter-about-dalton-knecht-was-not-good-former-vols-guard-dalton-knecht-made-it-more-difficult-for-the-lakers-to-trade-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26714\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Chatter about Dalton Knecht was not good’ – Former Vols guard Dalton Knecht made it more difficult for the Lakers to trade him"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The Chatter about Dalton Knecht was not good’ – Former Vols guard Dalton Knecht made it more difficult for the Lakers to trade him<\/a> originally appeared on A to Z Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rumors have swirled this summer that the Los Angeles Lakers are on the verge of trading former Tennessee Vols guard Dalton Knecht.<\/p>\n

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Knecht, a first round selection by Los Angeles in the 2024 NBA Draft, was nearly traded to the Charlotte Hornets last season. That deal, however, was rescinded<\/a> due to concerns about the health of center Mark Williams (Williams was the player the Lakers were set to receive in the deal).<\/p>\n

The Lakers are reportedly still interested<\/a> in trading Knecht. But the former Vol’s trade value is trending in the wrong direction after he struggled during Summer League action.<\/p>\n

“The chatter in Vegas (NBA Summer League) about Dalton Knecht was not good,”\u00a0said Lakers insider Jovan Buha on Sunday. “After we recorded [the podcast], Dalton played again and he had another rough game.\u00a0Summer League has not helped Dalton Knecht’s stock. And I don’t think at this point he is valued as a first-round pick in terms of an asset valuation. <\/p>\n

“That was what I heard in Vegas from talking to multiple people, non-Lakers people, just gauging what would you give for Dalton Knecht? Or if the Lakers are putting Dalton Knecht in a trade, what is he worth? And the feedback I got was [that he is] no longer worth a first-round valuation.”<\/p>\n

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We’ll see what the Lakers choose to do with Knecht. It feels like Los Angeles will still likely trade the former Vol, but his up-and-down Summer League performance will make it more difficult for the Lakers to find a trade partner.<\/p>\n

Related: It’s not looking very good for former Tennessee Vols quarterback Hendon Hooker<\/a><\/p>\n

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This story was originally reported by A to Z Sports<\/a> on Jul 21, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The Chatter about Dalton Knecht was not good’ – Former Vols guard Dalton Knecht made it more difficult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11949,6935,3031,1055,22495,355,99,11651],"class_list":["post-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-dalton-knecht","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-mark-williams","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-summer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}