The Lakers currently have the 2nd best odds to land Marcus Smart🔥Would you want him on the Lakers?🤔Via @BovadaOfficial pic.twitter.com/HW5s5tbmsD— Playoff LAL (@PlayoffLAL) June 17, 2025
Lakers currently have the 2nd best odds to land Marcus Smart
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June 17, 2025 5 Comments
I wouldn’t be opposed to it depending on what we had to send back in return. He’s on the wrong side of 30 and making $21mill. Hopefully we have better options available to pair in the backcourt with Luka.
Kleber and a Team Optioned Goodwin is about all I’d do and even that feels like an overpay. Not sure why he wouldn’t be waived near the deadline next season, he’s an expiring contract so the Wiz can see if they need a vet for an improbable playoff run or cut bait and let him find a playoff team to hop onto next Feb. Not a reason in the world to give up what we have (which ain’t much) for a guy who hasn’t been able to stay on the floor for the last 3 years.
Marcus is not an offensive threat….and the Lakers still have Vanderbilt as a zero offense player, and the hole at the center position. I’d much rather see Rui continue to pick up his offensive and defensive game. I havent run it thru the trade machine but I’d be fine with Vanderbilt and Vincent for Smart (no draft picks favoring the Whizzers’, formerly the Baltimore Bullets (bang bang)…
Two guys who can play for one guy who has played 54 games in 2 years due to a variety of leg injuries? Hard pass for me.
Oh. Yay.
If this was Smart from 4 seasons ago sign me up. Since being traded he’s fallen off a cliff and I wouldn’t trade anyone for him, I’d wait until he was waived and pick him up then.