The Lakers have emerged as the odds-on betting favorites to nab a high scoring star who's hardly beloved around the league.
The Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as the betting favorites to trade for a high scoring young star who's hardly beloved around the league.gives LA +300 odds to trade for three-time Atlanta Hawks All-Star point guard Trae Young , hot off of Young's miserable turn against the Chicago Bulls in a half-hearted 9-10 play-in game loss on Wednesday.
In that game, Young paced every other player with a game-worst -27 plus-minus, while playing horrific defense and turning over the ball six times. He and backcourt Atlanta cohort Dejounte Murray ofund themselves roundly outplayed by their Chicago counterparts Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu . His tenth-seeded Hawks had lost six games in a row entering the play-in, and now find themselves heading to the lottery in what's looking like one of the most talent-poor NBA drafts in a decade.
Young has frequently clashed with teammates and is remarkably unpopular around the league. He doesn't defend, and is a frequent ball hog with an erratic three point shot.
Yes, Young may have a talent edge on Russell in a vacuum, but he would fit best around a fast-breaking team of deferential 3-and-D wings . Los Angeles had previously been linked to Dejounte Murray at this year's trade deadline. Murray is a better two-way player than Young, and has demonstrated at least a willingness to play without the ball. If anything, that is the Hawks player LA should target, and he probably wouldn't cost as much in future draft equity to obtain .
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