If you started off a list of the NBA's championship favorites, you wouldn't start with the Los Angeles Lakers. They'd be part of the conversation, though. They have too much star power and too potent of an attack to leave them out of the discussion.
But playing a bigger role in the NBA's title rankings would require scratching their itch for a 3-and-D wing. Or maybe more specifically it would take pulling off this hypothetical trade, which would deliver arguably the best answer to this problem in the form of 6'7" shapeshifting stopper Herbert Jones.