4 Teams That Should Trade For Zach LaVine

Zach LaVine is slowly beginning to trickle into daily trade rumors and it makes sense. He and Bulls head coach, Billy Donovan, don’t appear to be on the same page and the Bulls are currently 12th in the Eastern Conference hanging out with bum teams like the Hornets and Magic.

Disclaimer: Not the Lakers. Rob Pelinka cannot keep getting away with being the worst GM in sports and stumbling into LeBron and Anthony Davis and now LaVine. He’s stuck with Westbrook and Larsa Pippen’s son.

Here are the 4 teams that should trade for Zach LaVine:

1. Miami Heat

At this point in his career, Jimmy Butler spends more time with Mark Wahlberg than in a Heat jersey on a basketball court. The Heat are running their team through Bam Adebayo this season which was a long time coming but he’s not great enough to lead a team to the playoffs.

Miami is the team that takes these great athletes and molds them to their final physical form. Zach LaVine can already jump out of the gym. Can you imagine how incredible he’d look if he takes the HGH gummies that Pat Riley was feeding LeBron back in 2012?

2. Dallas Mavericks

Luka Doncic currently ranks 3rd in usage rate this season. The entire Dallas Mavericks team revolves around this young Slovac boy isoing for the whole 24-second shot clock or passing the ball out to the most wide-open shooters missing the basket by miles. Like, I am absolutely writing a ‘4 Teams That Should Trade For Luka Doncic’ by the end of 2022.

Luka needs a ballhandler to take the pressure off him and LaVine is 1000% better than Spencer Dinwiddie or the most washed Kemba Walker. The problem is, LaVine is the type of cat who probably thinks he’s better than Luka and I don’t think Jason Kidd—a guy who has annoyed plenty of teammates—is a coach who can save that potential poison locker room.

3. Memphis Grizzlies

Dillon Brooks is a whole ass weirdo which I think his teammates like(?) but I can’t imagine they like how frequently he takes the worst shots and of course misses those shots. I know a lot of people were shipping Memphis with Durant this summer after his trade request and I know Zach LaVine is a step down from that but having a 22 point per game scorer next to Ja who is just as athletic and electric could send the Grizzlies to the next level.

Brooks is a guy who belongs on the terrible Bulls team where he can chuck up 25 shots a night and fight guys who set normal screens on him.

4. New York Knicks

I obviously had to throw my Knicks on this list. Zach LaVine isn’t the superstar Knicks fans have been begging for but at this point in his career, I can say with complete confidence that he’s better than RJ Barrett.

RJ’s favorite play is confidently stepping into a 3 with about 20 seconds left in the shot clock and making his teammates sprint back on defense when the ball dents the front of the rim and ricochets into the hands of the opposing point guard who is already dribbling full speed past RJ who still has his hand in the air like he just hit the game-winner in the Finals.

A Julius Randle/Zach LaVine team is going to the playoffs every year. And being fucking DRAGGED by Giannis in the first round.