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Meiji recommends that three parties trade KD to join the Lakers! The group is the super three-time LKL, and the 5th championship for the 40-year-old James James?

2:16pm, 10 June 2025【Basketball】

Kevin Durant is already the main trading chips for the Phoenix Suns this summer. The Suns want to exchange for some future draft picks and young assets. The Lakers have always been one of KD's potential next players. However, it has been revealed that the team KD most wants to join is the San Antonio Spurs, but everything is not yet determined. According to Bill Simmons, the Spurs are likely to be KD's next home in the end, and the two teams are waiting for official announcement, but this is just his personal subjective assumption and no source.

On June 9, Laker media Laker Tom reposted a tweet from US media SI reporter Jackson Coward. Coward suggested that the Lakers chase Durant, and the Lakers and the Suns pulled the Hawks into third parties, so that a three-party deal could be established.

Coward also wrote in the article: It should be noted that this is just a speculative and interesting suggestion to see what these teams will do next. I don’t think the Hawks or other teams should be third parties to the Lakers and Suns. The specific plan for this tripartite transaction is -

Hawks get: Grayson Allen, Cody Martin, Vanderbilt;

Lakers get: KD, Mann, Richards;

Hawks get: Reeves, Hachimura, Klebel, Kneckett, Milton, Vincent, Buffkin, 27th Cavaliers second round, 2 The Cavaliers' second round in 9 years, the Lakers' first round pick in 2031, and the Cavaliers' second round pick in 2031; (The Hawks' second round were all given away)

The Lakers' 25-26 season roster are still 12 people left. Reeves, Hachimura, Kleber, Kneckett, Milton, Vincent, and Vanderbilt are indeed players with contracts, and these people can be traded.

In this way, the Lakers can form the super three giants of Luca Doncic + Kevin Durant + LeBron James, which is the LKL combination, but this combination has one biggest problem - age! Doncic is 26 years old, James is 40 years old, and Durant is 36 years old. Next season, James is 41 years old and Durant is 37 years old. Both of them are no longer in their peak period. After the formation of this lineup, the 25-26 season is equivalent to the last window for the Lakers to win the championship in the next few years, because there is only one year left in the KD contract, for the 41-year-old LeBron's last goal?

Text/Yan Xiaobai: Lakers Observation