While the trade rumors for Zach Lavine is there, he's going to undergo a surgery this coming week and he'll miss tons of games.
The recovery period could be for max of 6 months or possible to be more than that. If I'm the owner of the team, I'd definitely just trade him somewhere else and will take someone who's better than him. But will there be a team that's willing to take him now with that condition?
Zach will miss all the remaining games of the season. This means all strong teams that want more reinforcements this season won't accept him anymore. The Lakers are the favored team to get him but they will surely reject a Zach trade at this point. Maybe some teams that are rebuilding are willing to accept but the problem is Zach's commitment. Zach said before that he wants to join a good team so it means not a rebuilding team.
Sixers is having a hard time without Embiid. They are already down to 25 against Nets. It looks like an early accepted loss today.
Luckily we got one more game on TV tonight. Lakers at Knicks, this should be a fun game. Knicks is going great lately, they have 9 games win streak. Randle is out unfortunately, but Brunson is boosting his stats. I wonder if Lakers can stop them. I saw LeBron's trade speculations, I don't think it's related but he's still questionable in injury report. AD is same (for injury, not trade) as well.
Philly is really different without their main man. The team is offensively used to the presence of Embiid. The Lakers stopped the New York Knicks at home. Randle and Anunoby were both missing and it cost them their win streak. But the Lakers were shooting with high efficiency even if the Knicks had 20 more attempts.