{"id":497084,"date":"2025-12-26T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/497084\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:52:12","slug":"is-it-finally-time-for-the-los-angeles-lakers-to-make-a-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/497084\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it finally time for the Los Angeles Lakers to make a trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by Yahoo Sports NBA reporter Kelly Iko to discuss how the Los Angeles Lakers should be looking to make a trade to help turn their season around. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube<\/a> or YahooSports.TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

Despite Luka’s injuryyeah.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Status has kind of been lingering.<\/p>\n

He did give it a go last night, but Houston smoked him.<\/p>\n

Absolutely smoked him.<\/p>\n

In your opinion, what’s the biggest problem?<\/p>\n

With the Lakers right now?<\/p>\n

Athleticism and age.<\/p>\n

I think they’re too old.<\/p>\n

Too slow.<\/p>\n

Um, itit’s hard when your two best players Are Luka and LeBron because you need a bunch of athletes around them.<\/p>\n

You saw the Rockets last night.<\/p>\n

They were running them in circles.<\/p>\n

Amen Thompson, Jabari Smith Jr., and Tari Eason.<\/p>\n

These guys…<\/p>\n

Even Kevin Durant at age 37 is still… You know, running rings around these guys.<\/p>\n

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So if you’re the Lakers, You need to, you know, make a trade now, sooner, sooner, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

And just get some athleticism.<\/p>\n

Just, just, just get some speed.<\/p>\n

Some agility on the perimeter, on the wings.<\/p>\n

Defensively, you, You could show up, you know, that side of the ball.<\/p>\n

But the biggest thing is age.<\/p>\n

They’re too old.<\/p>\n

They need to get quicker.<\/p>\n

This, it, it’s, it’s.<\/p>\n

It’s so apparent that despite their elite skill level of, Of Luka and LeBron, it’s an athlete’s league.<\/p>\n

You, you need guys that can, Can fill in those gaps, run down the channels, and finish off.<\/p>\n

Finish dunks, get on the break.<\/p>\n

Easy buckets.<\/p>\n

This is a team that struggles to score in transition.<\/p>\n

So if you’re the Lakers, you need to, you know, figure out how to acquire some athletes.<\/p>\n

Pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by Yahoo Sports NBA reporter Kelly Iko…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,41636,23880,6099,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-497084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-caroline-fenton","10":"tag-jason-fitz","11":"tag-kelly-iko","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-lakers","14":"tag-lakers","15":"tag-lalakers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangeleslakers","20":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115786674664112648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}