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The Lakers Trade Deandre Ayton to Wizards, Likely More Moves to Come
The Lakers are trying to open up enough space to bring in one more impact player this offseason, and started that business on Friday by trading backup center Deandre Ayton to Washington for guard Jaden Hardy (who is kind of incidental to this whole transaction), and two second round picks.
The Lakers also save about two million dollars, which will be very helpful both for the free agent Tetris on the guys they already have, but also for creating room to bring other players in.
Now attention will turn to the other "dead" spots on the Lakers roster, most notably Dalton Knecht and Jarred…
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