The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers are having a terrific 2020/21 NBA season but just as everybody in the league, they want to be the best team in the association and have the best players on the roster.
Over the past two years, they have made interesting moves and although most people think they are done, the reality is that you never know with these two teams and their front offices, which can pull off incredible moves.
Recently, both teams were linked with the same player and although it would be an extremely hard job, the Lakers and Clippers are reportedly interested in landing Washington Wizards’ Bradley Beal before the trade deadline.
Lakers and Clippers could be interested in Bradley Beal
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, both the Los Angelenos teams would love to be involved in a trade for the struggling Wizards star, whose team can’t win regardless of how much effort he puts into games.
Beal currently averages 35.4 points while playing nearly 36 minutes a game, but that hasn’t been enough for the Wizards. They have won only 3 games in the season, being the worst team in the league. During a recent edition of ESPN’s The Jump, Wojnarowski revealed that the Lakers and Clippers could land Beal, but that is a really hard job.
“There’s not a team in the league who wouldn’t love to find a way to add Bradley Beal… I think for teams like Golden State or the Denvers, teams who have assets who are contenders when they’re healthy… Now I’m not saying they’re going to do it, but you look at those teams and say ‘they have enough to get in the conversation.’
“And that’s going to be the decision for teams all over the league. Of course the Lakers and Clippers would love to be able to get involved in that, but do they have the draft picks? Do they have the young players it would take that would top a package from some other teams? Maybe not.”
The Lakers gave a bunch of draft picks to the New Orleans Pelicans in the trade that brought Anthony Davis to Los Angeles in 2019 while the Clippers did something similar when they landed Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The addition of Beal would add more power to any of these teams but it remains to be seen if they find a way to acquire the player. These two squads are already favorites to come out of the West this year and trading for the shooting guard would put them above their competition.
