According to reports from Michael Scottothere would be a meeting between Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz e New York Knicks to discuss the actual feasibility of a three-team negotiation capable of satisfying the needs of all the franchises involved.
In this regard, i Los Angeles Lakersinterested in exchanging Russell Westbrook for technical and economic reasons, they would have entered the negotiation well after the actual start of the same, which started as a simple linear exchange between Jazz e Knicks.
According to the indiscretions collected by the editors of Hoops Hypeshould this transaction actually materialize in the near future, Utah would acquire Russell Westbrook and a considerable number of future choices of the other two franchises involved in the exchange, while New York would finally have the opportunity to guarantee the sporting performance of Donovan Mitchellat the cost of cutting some heavy contracts (such as that of Derrick Rose) to offer the guard the maximum salary. They would go to the Lakers instead Patrick Beverly and a player between Jordan Clarkson, Bojan Bogdanovic e Malik Beasley.
Furthermore, according to what leaks from inside sources a Utahthe Jazz management would like to obtain the maximum number of future choices from this trade, in order to be able to openly proceed with the reconstruction operations.
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