The Los Angeles Lakers reportedly aren’t all for buying and selling guard Talen Horton-Tucker to the Utah Jazz for guard Patrick Beverley.
“Whereas they proceed to register the league’s solely tangible commerce curiosity in Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving, it’s likewise true that the Lakers have prioritized including pace, youth and athleticism to the roster,” NBA insider Marc Stein wrote. “As such, in response to one supply aware of the group’s pondering, there is no such thing as a push forthcoming from the Lakers’ aspect to swap Talen Horton-Tucker (as rumored) for Patrick Beverley, who ranks as one in every of Utah’s very out there veterans alongside Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanović and Jordan Clarkson. The Jazz acquired Beverley and Malik Beasley within the Rudy Gobert commerce and have made Beasley out there as effectively.”
Horton-Tucker averaged 10.0 factors per sport this previous season, which was a career-high, however he shot a career-worst 41.6 p.c from the ground and 26.9 p.c from deep. He additionally averaged 3.2 rebounds and a pair of.7 assists per sport.
