The Lakers Trade Deandre Ayton to Wizards, Likely More Moves to Come

The Lakers are trying to open up enough space to bring in one more impact player this offseason, and started that business on Friday by trading backup center Deandre Ayton to Washington for guard Jaden Hardy (who is kind of incidental to this whole transaction), and two second round picks. 

The Lakers also save about two million dollars, which will be very helpful both for the free agent Tetris on the guys they already have, but also for creating room to bring other players in. 

Now attention will turn to the other "dead" spots on the Lakers roster, most notably Dalton Knecht and Jarred Vanderbilt. These picks give the Lakers a little sweetener to move one or both along, perhaps avoiding the need to use a waive'n'stretch on either. (For reference, the cost for the Rockets to move off Dorian Finney-Smith on Friday was three second rounders.) So what's coming for the Lakers? What else can they do to red paper clip their way up to what is almost certainly targeted as a starting or rotation caliber wing/PF? Would it be Jonathan Kuminga? Rui Hachimura? Hard to know, but it's gonna be someone, if they can make it happen. 

HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky 

Photo Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

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