D'Angelo Russell cannot be traded until Jan 15 because he re-signed using Bird rights with a 20% raise in salary and the Lakers are over the cap.

Rui Hachimura cannot be traded until Jan 15 because he re-signed using Bird rights with a 20% raise in salary and the Lakers are over the cap.

This trade would result in the Lakers crossing the tax apron of ($172.3M) while hardcapped. Therefore this trade is not possible. Remove $6.9M of incoming value to remain below the hard cap.

Hard Cap Reasons

Used more than taxpayer portion ($5,000,000.00) of their mid-level exception to sign Gabe Vincent (est. $10,500,000).. Used their bi-annual exception to sign Taurean Prince ($4,516,000).