Rumor: Lakers Planning Offseason Trade Offer for Mavs’ Kyrie Irving?

LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers stood pat at the NBA trade deadline, but they’re reportedly planning to chase stars in the offseason, including Dallas Mavericks’ Kyrie Irving.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 9, 2024

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After standing pat at the NBA trade deadline, the middle-of-the-pack Los Angeles Lakers already have rumors surfacing about how they’re planning to pursue star players in the offseason, including Dallas Mavericks’ Kyrie Irving … and the price could be significant.

“Moving forward, the Lakers plan to use the three picks that they will have available this summer — 2031, 2029 and either 2024 or 2025, depending on which pick the New Orleans Pelicans choose to receive as part of their return for 2019’s Anthony Davis trade — to pursue a star via trade,” writes Jovan Buha of The Athletic.

Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers — Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

“Three potential targets are Donovan Mitchell, Trae Young and Kyrie Irving, according to team and league sources. The Athletic has previously reported on the franchise’s interest in Young and Irving.”

Irving has been linked to the Lakers several times over the last few years, but he’s also tried recruiting LeBron James to Dallas. As enticing as three first-round picks would be for the Mavs, who have very limited draft capital at their disposal for the foreseeable future, trading away Luka Doncic’s co-star right after adding significant roster pieces in P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford would be a no-go.

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Dallas might not quite be the scene Los Angeles is, but when it comes to basketball rosters, the Mavs are in a much better place than the Lakers are going forward. The Mavs have two superstars with young, talented depth surrounding them, and their time to win is now.

Maybe situations will change over the next 30 games, but if thing keep trending the way they have been, we stand by the notion that LeBron making his way to Dallas to compete for one more championship alongside Doncic and Irving is more rational than trying to win with Irving and an stripped-down depth in L.A.

Published Feb 9, 2024

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.