Los Angeles Lakers Actively Pursuing DeMarcus Cousins
- Updated: June 22, 2015
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According to ESPN.com, the Los Angeles Lakers are actively trying to acquire DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. It was also released that multiple scenarios have been discussed back and forth with the team but the Lakers recently emerged as the front-runners.
If you ask the Sacramento Kings, however, they will tell you Boogie is not available. Value Divac said on Sunday that getting rid of him would be to deal away his best player and that “is not happening.” Diva’s preference is to “do something, a small move, before the draft.”
ESPN.com writes the following:
Sources say that the Lakers, Kings and Orlando Magic have had exploratory dialogue on a three-way Cousins trade that would land the 24-year-old in Los Angeles. All three teams hold top-6 picks in Thursday’s NBA draft, and Orlando has a young top-flight center of its own in Nikola Vucevic, who could theoretically fill the Cousins void.”
DeMarcus Cousins has three years left on his contract extension which was signed in the summer of 2013.
Marc Stein of ESPN.com explains that the Lakers lack options to get into the trading game, unless they are to give up their prized Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson, and whoever they pick at No.2. He writes the following:
“Orlando holds the fifth pick in Thursday’s proceedings but would presumably expect a lot to be willing to part with Vucevic, who signed an extension of his own last October and has become the most consistently productive player from the four-team blockbuster trade in August 2012 that sent Dwight Howard from the Magic to the Lakers.
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