Lakers could trade for former playoff enemy?
Apr 22, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; The Los Angeles Lakers logo at center court during game three of the 2023 NBA playoffs at Crypto.com Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
The Los Angeles Lakers might be swinging a move for a guy who helped end their season less than eight months ago.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said Friday on “NBA Countdown” to keep an eye on the Lakers as a potential trade suitor for the former Denver Nuggets champion Bruce Brown. Wojnarowski says that the Lakers almost landed Brown for the midlevel exception this past summer and that they already attempted to trade for him earlier this season too.
woj just hinted at the lakers being extremely interested in bruce brown
he even went as far as to say they tried trading for him while he was a pacer
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Brown, 27, was just traded by the Indiana Pacers to the Toronto Raptors as a part of the Pascal Siakam blockbuster. He is a phenomenal intangibles piece who defends, rebounds, and scores from a number of different positions but is not expected to be kept around by the young, rebuilding Raptors.
What also makes Brown an attractive option is that he has a $23 million team option for next season. Acquiring Brown might make things awkward for one Lakers player that Brown targeted when the Nuggets eliminated the Lakers in last year’s Western Conference Finals. But Brown does all the little things that a top-heavy team like the Lakers needs and would be markedly cheaper than this other purple-and-gold trade target.