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Lakers Rumors: Acquiring Deron Williams and Signing Lamar Odom Unlikely

By | June 7, 2012|

The number one trade target for the Los Angeles Lakers over the summer will most likely be elite point guard Deron Williams of the Brooklyn Nets. Even though the Lakers can’t sign Williams to a free agent contract, if he opts out of the final year of his deal with the Nets, with only the mini-midlevel of $3 million at their disposal, Los Angeles can acquire him via sign-and-trade.

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Another big-name player that has been rumored to be signing with Los Angeles before next season is former Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom. With mutual interest from the team and the veteran forward, a reunion might be on the horizon.

Unfortunately, the Lakers acquiring Williams via sign-and-trade and Odom might be highly unlikely according to Mike Bresnahan and Mark Medina of the L.A. Times:

Williams, a likely free agent this summer and one of the NBA’s top point guards, was cognizant of the Lakers’ limited purchasing power.

“I know they don’t have any money to just go out and sign me. It’ll have to be some kind of [trade],” Williams said Wednesday at the E3 Expo, where he promoted the video game “NBA Baller Beats.”

As for Odom, the NBA is standing firm on the relatively new rule that players cannot return to their old teams for a full year after being traded, a change made in the new collective-bargaining agreement last December.

In the past, the Lakers organization has always had the ability to acquire any player they had their eyes on. After the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was signed before the 2011-12 NBA season, the Lakers ability to sign and trade for desired players will no longer be as easy as it once was.

It remains to be seen what the future holds for the Lakers moving forward with GM Mitch Kupchak saying changes will be made. Even if the Lakers can’t acquire Williams or sign Odom, this team will still make moves in an attempt to improve this team before next season.

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  • SCTROJAN818

    he can re-sign ONLY if he is bought out and not CUT! these posters SUCK!

  • Im_Me_Homie

    LISTEN TO ME LAKER MANAGEMENT!  Sign and Trade Proposal: Andrew Bynum, Sessions, Gaudelock, McRoberts, For Deron Williams, Lopez and a 2nd rd pick or Andrew Bynum, Sessions, Meta World Peace for Deron Williams and Robin Lopez

    • 4g424g4

      get rid of gasol!!!!not bynum!

  • Mike

    Lakers are done… Clippers will take over LA from now on!   All you Laker fans can thank Jim (Crackhead) Buss

  • geeorgee cheeng

    Dont know why you’re posting on Lakers Nation if you like the Clippers, go back to Lob City, where the only talented person on the team is CP3

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-David/100002023911575 Michael David

    With all due respect to the writer of this article and most of the people commenting, this is a very poorly written piece and mostly BS. First of all, Deron’s quote says, “It’ll have to be some kind of trade”. The word “will” indicates future and positive. In no way, shape or form is this a negative comment. The other part of the quote, “I know they don’t have the money to just go out and sign me” doesn’t mean that it can’t happen. 
    If anything it is a very positive sign because it shows that he is considering it and has looked into the situation.  It just means that it would have to involve a sign and trade. Yes everyone in the world knows this already. The Nets don’t want Pau? So what… We managed to do a huge trade for Chris Paul in a three way deal (involving Pau Gasol btw) that was successful until Stern screwed us. As for Odom needing one year to come back, did the writer of this article think he was the first one to think about this? Writers have been talking about this for months and acknowledging this fact all along. He had a horrible experience in Dallas, he loves LA, his life is in LA and he wants to win a championship. It is very possible for him to miss the first couple months of the season as a Laker seeing that there are very few other options and/or desired locations for him to go to. I respect this site and use it for updates, but it is getting very frustrating seeing the name “Deron Williams” and the word “Rumors” only to click on it and realize that someone wrote a horrible article without even using common sense.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dallas-Anderson/1067715771 Dallas Anderson

    It’s clear that the Lakers need to amnesty Kobe Bryant’s 27.5 and 29 million remaining on his deal which is strangling the Laker’s cap flexibility. A billion dollar TV deal makes absorbing that feasible & puts them in place to get a premier player in D Williams to pair with Bynum. Furthermore, it is clear that the team (as constructed) has run it’s course. A fire sale of Pau or Bynum isn’t returning equal value and Kobe has CLEARLY declined (shooting 43% as a JUMP shooter) offensively and defensively. Kobe takes up nearly 40-45% of the cap all by himself. Time to cut bait. Kobe still gets paid and the next generation begins. 

  • Sti1lmatic

    Well said Michael David. Lakers Nation needs to hire you and then maybe we’ll get some decent articles.