Los Angeles Lakers: Three prospects to target after tanking

1. Cam Reddish

The third member of the insane Duke trio this season, Cam Reddish is one of the best prospects in the 2019 NBA Draft. In most other drafts he would probably be a top-four prospect at worst but likely will fall outside the top-five and could be sitting there for the Lakers, or whoever owns the sixth overall pick.

Reddish plays small forward for the Duke Blue Devils and this would seem to create more of a jam for the Lakers at forward with Ingram, LeBron and Kuzma. However, Reddish has the shooting ability and is a solid-enough wing player that he can play the two guard in the NBA.

He has the size to be an NBA three, so maybe the Lakers use him at small forward with Brandon Ingram at the two.

Selecting Reddish would be good for the Lakers because he is coming from the best basketball program in the planet right now, which also has had an insane media following because of Zion Willamson.

While nothing is comparable to the NBA, this at least gives Reddish a familiarity with that media and will make him more equipped to play alongside LeBron James.

There is no way that Reddish falls to eighth in the draft and there is a high chance that three Duke players are picked in the top-five. If the Lakers get pick number six, and he is there, I would snag him.