Exploring four trade targets for the Los Angeles Lakers in an attempt to solve their 3-point shooting woes.
Short of landing Kyrie Irving (which is looking less and less likely), the Los Angeles Lakers will likely be heading into the 2022-23 NBA season with roughly the same pieces – with a few adjustments here and there. At the same time, that’s not to say that said adjustments are upgrades.
I won’t go as far as to say that.
With that said, aside from getting healthy, there is one area in which the Lakers need to be better – and that’s when it comes to their 3-point shooting. Last season, the Lakers were in the bottom third of the league in 3-point shooting and they lost their best 3-point shooter (Malik Monk) in free agency.
Of the players that the Lakers have signed in free agency thus far – Troy Brown Jr., Lonnie Walker IV, Juan Toscano-Anderson, and Damian Jones – none of them would be categorized as 3-point specialists.
In an attempt to solidify their shooting, we explore five realistic trade targets for the Lakers.