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3 days ago · Dejounte Murray to Pelicans completes Lakers trade for Anthony Davis. With the acquisition of Murray, the Pelicans have officially completed the terms of the Davis trade. By giving up the final first-round draft pick that the Lakers sent to the Pelicans, we can now see exactly what each side received in the deal.
Jun 16, 2019 · June 16, 2019 10:06 PM. The Pelicans will send Anthony Davis to the Lakers after all. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report that New Orleans will send the 26-year-old superstar to Los ...
Apr 15, 2024 · New Lakers grade in the Anthony Davis trade. For many in Laker Nation, this trade will always be a success given that the team won a championship with Davis in 2020.
- Stephen Noh
- Davis gets what he wanted all along. Davis and his camp, fronted by agent Rich Paul, first made noise about getting out of New Orleans in January, when he still had a year and a half to go before he even reached the player-option year in his Pelicans contract extension.
- Will future franchise players do the same? What cost did Davis pay for his trade demand? Not much. His playing time plummeted from about 37 minutes in the first four months of 2018-19 to 22 in the 16 games he actually played after Jan.
- Right package at right time for Pelicans. There’s a time-value to money and there’s a time-value in trades, too. The best time for Griffin to deal was now, with the No. 4 pick in this year’s Draft in play to team with the No. 1 pick that presumably will be on Duke’s Zion Williamson.
- Griffin should have held out for Kyle Kuzma. OK, the Lakers had committed publicly to keeping Kuzma, the overachieving forward and No. 27 pick in 2017, out of the deal.
Discount Bill Simmons' comments on the Los Angeles Lakers trading Anthony Davis as flimsy or speculative if you want. They are certainly far from a sourced...
Jun 4, 2024 · Pelicans will allow the Lakers to keep their 2024 first-rounder. In doing so, the Pels have gifted essentially given the Lakers one last gift from the Anthony Davis trade. The reasoning behind their decision likely stems from the consensus that this year's draft is a bit weak, and not as stacked with high-end talent as next year's is expected ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Obviously, the Pelicans had little choice but to trade Davis in 2019, so it’s hard to paint any sort of counterfactual as we could with the Lakers. They made the move to rebuild and re-emerge in ...
