The Los Angeles Lakers are desperate. Everybody knows it, and no one is about to bail them out.
They were willing to mortgage the rest of their future to pair Kyrie Irving with LeBron James and Anthony Davis and pray the 30-year-old point guard does not bring his blowtorch to his fourth different franchise in six years. Even that was not enough to sway the Brooklyn Nets from accepting a package of Dorian Finney-Smith, Spencer Dinwiddie and an unprotected first-round draft pick in 2029 from the Dallas Mavericks.
The Lakers will continue to shop their future first-round picks until Thursday's trade deadline. That might be enough to get them into the conversation for potentially available fringe former All-Stars like Fred VanVleet, Zach LaVine or Bradley Beal. Their teams will have the Lakers over a barrel, too. Countless others can top Los Angeles' best offer, and there is no guarantee any of them can transform the Lakers into anything better than second-round playoff fodder.
What they have is a sub-.500 team bound for a third straight season without a single playoff series victory.
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