Lakers Land Steph Curry in Blockbuster Proposed 4-Team Trade

The NBA news and rumors have come to a halt now that the peak of free agency is over. This means that it is the perfect time to come up with mock blockbuster trades to pass time until basketball is back.

That is exactly what Eric Pincus of the Bleacher Report did in his latest piece. He concocted a massive blockbuster deal that finally unites LeBron James and Steph Curry on the same team. Fortunately for Lakers fans, they do so in Los Angeles.

These are the details of this four-team trade:

Lakers get:
Steph Curry (from Warriors)
Day'Ron Sharpe (from Nets)
Wendell Moore Jr. (from Detroit Pistons)
$3.9 million trade exception (Jalen Hood-Schifino)

Warriors get:
Austin Reaves (via Lakers)
Ben Simmons (via Brooklyn Nets)
2029 unprotected first-rounder (via Lakers)
2031 unprotected first-rounder (via Lakers)
$2.4 million trade exception (Curry)

Nets get:
D'Angelo Russell (via Lakers)
Rui Hachimura (via Lakers)
Gabe Vincent (via Lakers)
Jalen Hood-Schifino (via Lakers)
$23.3 million trade exception (Simmons)
$2.0 million trade exception (Dennis Schröder)

Pistons get:
Dennis Schröder (via Nets)
Christian Wood (via Lakers)
2025 LA Clippers second-rounder (via Lakers)
2025 Miami Heat second-rounder (38-59, via Nets)
$4 million (via Lakers)

To summarize, the Lakers get Steph Curry in exchange for Austin Reaves, two first-round picks, and salary fillers like Rui Hachimura and D'Angelo Russell.

Obviously, this would be an absolute no-brainer for the Lakers. However, this could only happen if Curry specifically asks to be traded to the Lakers. In the unlikely scenario that Curry was available in a trade, there would be much better offers than the one Lakers can put together.

Plus, there is no indication that Curry wants out of Golden State or that the Warriors want to go a different direction. Even though the Warriors are nowhere near championship contention anymore with their aging roster, Curry is the greatest figure in franchise history, and trading him unless he wants to go elsewhere is out of the question.

Even though this deal is likely more of a pipe dream, basketball fans will not stop dreaming of a potential LeBron-Curry pairing. How fun that duo would be was made evident in their thrilling performances for Team USA in the Paris Olympics. Let's hope that we can see them together in the NBA at the dawn of their careers.

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