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Hypothetical Donovan Mitchell Trade to LAL + LAL Offseason

This trade was created for the 2023-2024 season.

FAILED

Lakers

+7 players ($48.0m) +1 pick,

Cap Impact - $5.0M

Donovan Mitchell

Donovan Mitchell

SG, 6' 3", 3.94 LEBRON
low activity

$33.1M

3yrs

2030 - Round 1

Least Favorable Protected

Roster Moves

VE

PF, 6' 6", -1.84 LEBRON
Veteran Extension | low activity

$4.5M

3yrs

DC

PF, 6' 8", -0.97 LEBRON
Dead Contract | low activity

$2.7M

1yr

DC

SF, 6' 8", -1.36 LEBRON
Dead Contract | low activity

$2.1M

1yr

DC

C, -2.04 LEBRON
Dead Contract | low activity

$2.1M

1yr

VE

SG, 6' 6", -2.95 LEBRON
Veteran Extension | low activity

$1.7M

5yrs

Spencer Dinwiddie

VE

Spencer Dinwiddie

PG, 6' 5", -0.09 LEBRON
Veteran Extension | low activity

$1.5M

2yrs

Notes

Extended Spencer Dinwiddie's contract to 2 yrs worth $3.9M.

Waived Christian Wood for $2.7M over 1 yr.

Extended Taurean Prince's contract to 3 yrs worth $14.5M.

Waived Cam Reddish for $2.1M over 1 yr.

Waived Jaxson Hayes for $2.1M over 1 yr.

Extended Max Christie's contract to 5 yrs worth $21.7M.

+1 Wins

-98.22 MPG

+11.61 Off.

-0.63 Def.

Stepien

Consecutive draft years 2024 & 2025 would be missing a 1st round pick. The pick for 2024 may be traded away on draft day after the team officially makes their selection.

Cavaliers

+3 players ($38.3m) +3 picks,

Cap Impact + $5.0M

PF, 6' 8", -1.32 LEBRON
low activity

$15.7M

3yrs

SG, 6' 5", -0.1 LEBRON
low activity

$12.0M

4yrs

PG, 6' 3", -1.25 LEBRON
low activity

$10.5M

3yrs

2025 - Round 1

2029 - Round 1

2030 - Round 1

More Favorable Protected

-3 Wins

+47.24 MPG

-4.91 Off.

-1.70 Def.

Hard Cap

This trade would result in the Cavaliers crossing the tax apron of ($172.3M) while hardcapped. Therefore this trade is not possible. Remove $231K of incoming value to remain below the hard cap.

Hard Cap Reasons

Used their bi-annual exception to sign Ty Jerome ($2,439,025).. Used more than taxpayer portion ($5,000,000.00) of their mid-level exception to sign Georges Niang ($8,800,000).

Financial

Cavaliers are unable to complete this trade. Since they are now an over apron team after this trade, they are only able to take back 110% of the salary they are sending out, plus $0.

Cavaliers can only take back $36.4M in salary based on the amount they are sending out.

Cut $1.7M from the Cavaliers incoming trade value to make this trade successful for the Cavaliers.

LEBRON (Luck-adjusted player Estimate using a Box prior Regularized ON-off) impact data is provided by BBall Index . See how LEBRON is calculated, and explore the data.

Trade details

Lakers acquire

Donovan Mitchell
2030 CLE swap worst first

Cavaliers acquire

Gabe Vincent
Austin Reaves
Rui Hachimura
2025, 2029, 2031 LAL unprotected firsts
2030 LAL swap best firsts

NBA Draft

Pick 55 (via LAC): SG Bronny James, USC

Free agency

Re-sign SF LeBron James (1-yr/~$50 mil, full NTC)
Re-sign D'Angelo Russell (4-yr/$80 mil)
Re-sign PG Spencer Dinwiddie (1-yr/vet min)
Re-sign SF Taurean Prince (2-yr/$10 mil)
Re-sign SG Max Christie (4-yr/$20 mil)
Sign C Kevin Love (1-yr/vet min)
Sign PF Kelly Oubre Jr. (2-yr/$10 mil, 2nd year PO)
Sign C Dario Saric (1-yr/vet min)
Sign PG Malachi Flynn (1-yr/vet min)
Sign PF Trendon Watford (1-yr/vet min)
Sign SF Marcus Morris Sr. (1-yr/vet min)

2024-25 Lakers starting lineup

PG D'Angelo Russell
SG Donovan Mitchell
SF LeBron James
PF Jarred Vanderbilt
C Anthony Davis

2024-25 Lakers bench

PG Spencer Dinwiddie
SG Max Christie
SF Taurean Prince
PF Kelly Oubre Jr.
C Kevin Love

2024-25 Lakers reserves

Malachi Flynn, Jalen Hood-Schifino, Bronny James, Trendon Watford, Dario Saric

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