While much of the focus on the Lakers at the trade deadline was on them adding pieces, there was also a potentially more likely scenario that saw them salary dump one of their contracts to drop below the luxury tax line.
Sitting just $1.2 million north of that line, the Lakers needed to just offload effectively any player to drop below that threshold. Surprisingly, the team opted not to even do that, likely because injuries have forced them into needing every player available to them this season.
Players like Christian Wood or Jaxson Hayes, for example, would have made sense to move on from but the Lakers have relied upon them an awful lot this season. One other interesting name came up in discussion, though, in Taurean Prince, according to Jovan Buha of The Athletic.
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