NBA Trade Rumors: Lakers Get Quantity from Nets in 3-Team Proposed Blockbuster

The Los Angeles Lakers need help in a few areas, and while they have their eyes on a wing defender here, a center there and a playmaker elsewhere, why not go one-stop shopping for everything you need? That's the apparent advice being offered by insider Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report.

He proposes a 3-team blockbuster that would get the Lakers four Brooklyn Nets with solid NBA experience. The Detroit Pistons are along for the ride to facilitate.

Lakers get:

Dennis Schröder (from Nets)
Dorian Finney-Smith (from Nets)
Day'Ron Sharpe (from Nets)
Shake Milton (from Nets)

Nets get:

D'Angelo Russell (from Lakers)
Gabe Vincent (from Lakers)
Jalen Hood-Schifino (from Lakers)
2029 first-round pick (top-5 protected, else a 2030 second-rounder; from Lakers)
2031 first-round pick (top-5 protected, else a 2031 second-rounder; from Lakers)
$4 million trade exception (Day'Ron Sharpe)
$2.9 million trade exception (Shake Milton)

Pistons get:

Maxwell Lewis (from Lakers)
Rights to Vanja Marinković (from Nets)
$2 million (from Lakers)

The Lakers would get a familiar solution in the backcourt with Schroder. They would know exactly what they're getting, having acquired him twice in the past. And he's having one of his best seasons right now, averaging 18.6 points per game with 6.5 assists while shooting 38.5% from three-point range for Brooklyn.

In Finney-Smith, they would get the perimeter defender they're looking for (in addition to Schroder, who plays good D in the backcourt). And in Sharpe they would get a big body down low to help out AD at the center spot.

The Nets are doing better than expected this season, but they'd be glad to make this hypothetical move since, as Pincus notes, "several NBA sources believe the team will focus on rebuilding, development and lottery position for the season half of the year."

They get two first-rounders in this deal, while Russell and Hood-Schifino's contracts expire after the season.

The Pistons get a little cash, and a look at a young player in Lewis who they may be interested in.