According to a report from SNY’s Ian Begley, the Lakers are interested in a deal with the…

It is a fact that the Los Angeles Lakers lacked a good team during the regular season and that lack of players due to various injuries and lack of productivity led them to be the big disappointment of the entire NBA, even at the trade deadline there were many rumored trades that never took place.

On the other hand, the Brooklyn Nets started the season and spent more than half of it without the services of their star point guard Kyrie Irving, who could not play at home due to a New York State mandate against people not vaccinated against COVID-19, and the team decided not to use him in the rest of the away game.

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So, according to a report from SNY’s Ian Begley, the Lakers were interested in a deal with the Nets for Irving, which would have reunited this controversial player with LeBron James, together they gave the Cleveland Cavaliers their first and, so far, only championship in those epic 2016 NBA Finals in which they came from behind from a 3-1 deficit to be crowned in 7 games.

According to a report from SNY’s Ian Begley, the Lakers are interested in a deal with the…

“It was only the journey to enjoy at that point, because I was sitting at home and – I don’t even want to say sitting at home, I was wondering at home what my future was going to look like, you know? Whether I was going to be traded, whether I was going to be released, whether I was going to get the opportunity to be on another team, how I was going to spin this for myself in a positive way,” Irving said at The ETCs with Kevin Durant podcast.

Irving ended up staying with the Nets, who were eventually eliminated and swept in the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics.