Rival teams expected the Los Angeles Lakers to pursue Orlando Magic shooting guard Terrence Ross at the NBA trade deadline this week, but until now, there has been no explicit reporting linking him to the purple and gold... at least not this year. As our own Jacob Rude covered at the time that original report dropped, there have been rumors of the Lakers’ ongoing interest in Ross going all the way back to 2015.
Well, it would seem the most random tradition in sports continues, as NBA insider Marc Stein reported in his latest Substack dispatch that Ross is one of the targets most frequently linked to L.