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Why trading Russell Westbrook helps the Lakers even more than him opting out

After a season like the Lakers and especially Russell Westbrook had last year, it makes sense that everyone involved would want a nice, clean break from each other. Unfortunately in sports, though, those tricky little things like contracts can get in the way and for now, the Lakers and Westbrook are stuck with each other.

This week in “The Lakers Lounge,” Harrison Faigen (who is back for some reason?) and I listed all the potential ways the Westbrook-Lakers relationship can move forward — whether that’s together or separately — and listed them in order of how appealing we find them.