{"id":511146,"date":"2026-01-02T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:54:09","slug":"mark-williams-on-how-mad-he-was-about-lakers-rescinded-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511146\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Williams on how mad he was about Lakers’ rescinded trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

After landing Luka Doncic 11 months ago, the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> quickly went to work looking to build a championship team around him. Just days later, they agreed to send Dalton Knecht, wing Cam Reddish and draft compensation for then-Charlotte Hornets<\/a> center Mark Williams.<\/p>\n

But the trade was rescinded shortly afterward because he reportedly failed his physical with the Lakers. It was a surprising development, even though Williams has been injury-prone during his short NBA career.<\/p>\n

He took a couple of shots at the Lakers on social media afterward, and on a recent appearance<\/a> on “The Young Man and the Three” podcast, he recounted what happened when he found out his trade to L.A. was rescinded and the aftermath of that decision. He made it clear that he was upset about what transpired.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then they tell me (about the failed physical and rescinded trade),\u201d Williams said. \u201cI\u2019m like, that can\u2019t be. I just played the [Milwaukee] Bucks that night that I got the call I\u2019m getting traded. I\u2019m out here. They\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s done. Like, we\u2019re not going back.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Y\u2019all can\u2019t undo the undo? Like, what you mean?\u2019 They\u2019re like, \u2018No, it\u2019s done.\u2019 So I\u2019m hot. I was excited. … We play them first game out the break, and then I got to go back to Charlotte. So All-Star break, I\u2019m just like, \u2018What the [expletive]?\u2019 \u201cAnd then, first game out is L.A, of course, you can\u2019t write it any other way\u2026 I mean, really, I was excited to go there. I thought I was a piece that could really help them. Obviously, going into the playoffs, and then once they lost, obviously I tweeted little smiley face. I was hating.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hornets ended up trading Williams to the Phoenix Suns<\/a> last summer. This season, he has played in 28 of a possible 33 games and averaged 12.8 points, 8.3 rebounds, 1.2 steals and 0.9 blocks in 23.9 minutes a game. In three games against the Lakers this season, he has averaged 17 points and two blocks a game, with his new team winning two of those contests.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles signed Deandre Ayton to fill its big void at the center position last summer after his previous contract was bought out by the Portland Trail Blazers. It’s debatable whether he’s a better rebounder, shot blocker or rim protector than Williams, but he’s certainly a more capable offensive player, and he’s giving L.A. 14.6 points a game on 70.6% field-goal shooting so far this season.<\/p>\n

Williams can be as resentful as he wants for having his trade to the Lakers rescinded, but perhaps they found an even better option at the 5 in Ayton without having to give up any assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After landing Luka Doncic 11 months ago, the Los Angeles Lakers quickly went to work looking to build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[299,7,2179,3020,684,473,5954,1250,685,5955,4034,1698,300,4044,298,251,150,4033,4043,70,85,6,62,67,61,81,2065,472,34522,66,83,604],"class_list":["post-511146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-angeles","tag-basketball","tag-cam","tag-cam-reddish","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-dalton","tag-dalton-knecht","tag-hornets","tag-knecht","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-los","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-reddish","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115823723652206848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511146","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=511146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}