Los Angeles Lakers: Five way-too-early midseason trade targets to watch

By Jason Reed | Oct 3, 2019

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1. Jordan Clarkson

The first name you should watch out for is a former Laker himself: Jordan Clarkson. There has been so many trades and so much player movement in and out of the Lakers that it feels like an eternity ago that Clarkson was on the Lakers.

Clarkson was originally traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Isaiah Thomas trade that ironically gave the Lakers the cap space to sign LeBron the ensuing summer while also giving the Cavaliers the shot in the arm that they thought they needed.

Now, Clarkson enters the last year of his contract and is prime trade bait for the Cavaliers when the deadline rolls around. He is not going to garner a huge return, but any sort of draft capital, even if it is a second-round pick, is good for Cleveland.

The Lakers would have to include multiple contracts to get this deal to work and could maybe send Rajon Rondo, Jared Dudley and Talen Horton-Tucker as the package if the Rondo experiment does not work and they need a scoring guard, which Clarkson is.

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