{"id":446897,"date":"2025-06-18T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446897"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:39:00","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-targeting-starting-big-man-via-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-targeting-starting-big-man-via-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers targeting starting big man via trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1532\"><strong data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1408\">The Lakers plan to trade for a starting center<\/strong>, with Nic Claxton, Robert Williams III, and Walker Kessler among the names discussed with other teams, per <em data-start=\"1516\" data-end=\"1531\">Anthony Irwin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1708\">Once that move is secured, the plan is to use the <strong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1615\">taxpayer midlevel exception<\/strong> to sign a veteran backup. Brook Lopez and Clint Capela are the top options being considered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1850\"><strong data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1770\">Sources describe the plan as solid and likely to succeed<\/strong>, as L.A. looks to reshape its frontcourt and give Anthony Davis support inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. wants to land a new starting big man and use the midlevel exception on a backup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446897"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446897"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446897"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}