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Lakers Trade Proposal Lands $109 Million NBA Star From Timberwolves<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exciting times are ahead for the Los Angeles Lakers. When the 2025-26 season starts, they will have a full season with Luka Doncic and LeBron James. On paper, they have a solid chance of being in the conversation with the other contenders in the West.<\/p>\n

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However, the Lakers need to address their big man problem. The Minnesota Timberwolves constantly picked on that during their first-round series, which led to a gentleman’s sweep. The Lakers can’t sweep it under the rug, and the one team that could help them with this issue is, in fact, the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

Minnesota will try to get under the NBA’s second tax apron while maintaining their status as a contender in the Western Conference. The Lakers would make sense as a trade partner in that regard.<\/p>\n

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Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert (27)Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

ClutchPoints’ Bailey Bassett<\/a> proposed a trade to solve their big man problem, but it would come at a significant cost. He outlined a deal that sends Rudy Gobert to LA in exchange for\u00a0Austin Reaves, Gabe Vincent and Maxi Kleber.<\/p>\n

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“Gobert is still an elite defensive player,”\u00a0Bassett wrote.\u00a0“The four-time Defensive Player of the Year is still one of the best rim protectors in the NBA. Ultimately, the Lakers just need a big body who can take up space down low and collect rebounds.”<\/p>\n

Gobert is entering the first year of his three-year, $109 million contract extension (via Spotrac<\/a>). At 32 years old, he averaged 12 points, 10.9 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks while shooting nearly 67% from the field. Those are some of the lowest he’s averaged in years. However, he’s still a quality center that the Lakers could use.<\/p>\n

Related: Cooper Flagg, Lakers News Turns Heads After Monday’s Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Lakers Make Big Warriors Announcement on Monday<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers Trade Proposal Lands $109 Million NBA Star From Timberwolves originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Exciting times are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1013,7,370,185,150,368,3000,152,6,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-72897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-gabe-vincent","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-maxi-kleber","15":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-rudy-gobert"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114616499908752512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72897","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=72897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}