The Los Angeles Lakers drastically reshaped their roster leading up to the trade deadline by making four separate deals, and, suddenly, the immediate future looks a lot brighter.
They traded little-used guard Kendrick Nunn and three second-round draft picks for forward Rui Hachimura in late January. Then came a whopper of a trade earlier this month that sent out Russell Westbrook, the little-used Juan Toscano-Anderson and Damian Jones plus a lottery-protected 2027 first-round pick and brought in D’Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt and Malik Beasley.
