Over the past week, since Cleveland’s acquisition of Donovan Mitchell shocked the NBA landscape, momentum towards a similarly consequential deal in LakerLand has stalled. Despite the Lakers spending nearly the entire offseason searching for a Russell Westbrook trade, the general consensus is that such a deal will not happen.
Here’s why more and more people around the league expect Westbrook to stay a Laker.
Utah is only interested in a trade that nets the Jazz two first-round picks
While the Lakers harden in their stance of how many picks they want to surrender, the Jazz are in no hurry to make a deal that doesn’t pay them handsomely.