Has the Market Been Set for Austin Reaves? What Will the Lakers Do With Rui Hachimura?

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers · Jun 23, 2026 · 25m

The Lakers have some hard choices to make as they try and put a winning team around Luka Doncic, and one of the biggest is how to bring back Austin Reaves (which they need to do, short of using Reaves essentially to find his replacement, which feels like a long shot) but do so at a number that they're happy with. And more importantly, provides the type of flexibility to fill other important needs (especially defensively) that a Luka/Reaves long-term core creates.

So what will the market look like? Monday's action around the NBA could have an impact. First, both the Bulls and the Nets spent…