Less than a day remains until the 2023–24 Los Angeles Lakers trade deadline. Will your team make a big move? Potential targets for Los Angeles have included a wide range of players, including All-Stars and fringe role players. Of particular interest is Atlanta Hawks combo guard Dejounte Murray, whose contract is about to expire and is highly skilled. This deadline season, LA has also—perhaps surprisingly—been connected to a few former Lakers. Currently, two are Chicago Bulls. The 2020 champion appears to be the more significant player between center Andre Drummond and guard Alex Caruso, who could help plug the Lakers’ porous perimeter defense, which collapses anytime Jarred Vanderbilt is hurt.
See https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/nba/article285216032.html#storylink=cpy for additional information.The Athletic’s Jovan Buha and Darnell Mayberry broke down the fits of a few Bulls veterans who may be moving in a recent interview. The site’s Chicago insider, Mayberry, issued a warning, pointing out that Bulls front office “masterminds,” Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley, have so far appeared to place an excessive amount of importance on their own incumbent players, which has hindered their ability to negotiate. Mayberry thinks Chicago will eventually start to disintegrate its “core,” which peaked with a swift departure from the playoffs in the first round two seasons ago. Mayberry was fairly gloomy when asked how easy it would be to wrangle Caruso out of Chicago. Mayberry reported that Caruso, an All-Defensive Team player the previous season who has only improved offensively this year, is viewed by Bulls management as anBuha and Mayberry mention that multiple first-round draft selections are purportedly being asked by Chicago for Caruso’s services. At $9.5 million this year and partially guaranteed $9.9 million for 2024–25, he’s on an incredible deal, and LA has missed his defense ever since they foolishly let him walk in favor of keeping “win-later” shooting guard Talen Horton-Tucker during the disastrous 2021 offseason.
