For the summer of 2018, the Los Angeles Lakers plan to have enough cap space to lure two max-free agents to Hollywood. Everybody knows that (including Magic Johnson‘s pockets, lighter by $500K) and we are not going to go over it again.
We also know, that in order to obtain that miraculous flexibility, they need to dispose of Luol Deng‘s $72 million contract. Before opting to stretch it through the next five years, the purple and gold will definitely try to find a partner for a trade that would allow them to completely wipe this mistake from the cap.