I feel like Lakers could just drop the towel at this point. There is no need for them to even try anymore, just be openly talk about who would be in the trading block and what you are looking for so that other teams could get ready for it.

It is not allowed to approach upcoming FA as we all know, but teams do it anyway, but at the end of the day we should not be really shocked to see trading talks, and upcoming FA talks and even waived players for the off-season talks. All of that could be done right now and that should either lit fire to Lakers, or just let them get worse and at this point that's not really that much important at all.