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Walker Kessler Is Officially a Laker, and Sign and Trade Talk Around Kuminga Grows
The Lakers started into their business this week making official what was unofficial before. Tuesday, it was the business of finalizing the trade to send Deandre Ayton to Washington, before the Lakers used up their cap space, thus making Jaden Hardy aggregate-able in a future trade.
The Lakers have also signed Mamu, and Wednesday, made the Walker Kessler trade official. What's notable about all of this stuff is that there were no surprises in any of it. No last minute expansions of something like the Kessler trade. No happy acquisitions of extra draft capital or stuff like that. Which means…
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