The Lakers and Nets have ground to a complete halt in their trade negotiations over Russell Westbrook and Kyrie Irving. While there have been multiple aspects of the trade that the two sides have negotiated on, that stop has largely come as a result of the Lakers’ hesitancy to include multiple first round picks in the trade to offload Westbrook and the Nets’ insistence on the matter.
The lack of urgency on the matter for the Lakers was a fair stance to take in the discussions, but with the summer progressing and the preseason nearing, the heat was slowly going to build up for the Lakers to do something with Westbrook with the situation seemingly untenable.