The Los Angeles Lakers are at a crossroads between win now mode and saving assets to preserve future success. Making the incorrect move at the deadline could send them down the wrong path, similar to the one they went down six or so years ago.
The Dwight Howard and Steve Nash trades in 2012, at the time, appeared to set the Lakers up for championships at the end of Kobe Bryant‘s career, but it ended up mortgaging the Lakers future for a bunch of bad seasons in a row when those moves failed to pan out.