The NBA Trade Deadline is just a month away, and it's apparent that teams are scrambling to make last-minute decisions which may decide their futures in this year's playoffs.
Already, The Cleveland Cavaliers have traded Kyrie Irving to the Bolton Celtics, despite the advice of Tyronn Lue to Koby Altman. He compared the situation to the time Los Angeles Lakers resisted Kobe Bryant's trade demands in 2007.
"We wanted to figure out is this real?" Altman said. "Is Kyrie someone we might want to bring back and say, 'Hey, look, players have figured it out in the past. You're going to figure it out."
"We're going to still be really good, we're going to be winning games, so it's not going to be all awful.' You know what I mean? So thinking about the parameters of that, the implications of that was something we were also always debating."
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Lakers is seemingly looking for miracles hoping they could again reclaim their former glory in this year's playoffs. The Lakers are getting a bit rusty in the recent playoff seasons, seeing as they don't usually make it to the postseason playoffs.
Because of this, the Lakers are expected by many to pursue Paul George of the Oklahoma City Thunder when he enters free agency this summer, a connection not really surprising for NBA fans.
Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report also suggested that the Lakers should also try and trade for DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans, seeing as the Power Forward has earned some impressive numbers this season.
However, the Lakers may pay quite a hefty price if ever they are willing to trade for Cousins, as they have to trade real assets of their team to get the Power Forward player. There's also the possibility that DeCousins may ditch the team after the summer, so the Lakers must think hard on that.
