The NBA offseason lurched into high gear on Saturday night. There it was, plastered prominently across the bar’s TV screen: Breaking News; Anthony Davis traded to Lakers.
I immediately went to Twitter, eagerly searching for the details of how much Los Angeles had to give up. A day or so later we finally got the full story: the Lakers were sending Ball, Ingram, Hart, this year’s 4th overall pick, a top-8 reverse protected 2021 1st rounder (which becomes unprotected in 2022), a 2023 pick swap, and a 2024 1st rounder (with the right to defer to 2025) to the Pelicans for the one contract year of Anthony Davis’s services.
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