Lakers blockbuster sign-and-trade idea sends $53.8 million breakout star to Jazz

Lakers blockbuster sign-and-trade idea sends $53.8 million breakout star to Jazz

The Los Angeles Lakers would lose their standout 6-foot-5 shooting guard to the Utah Jazz in a hypothetical offseason deal.

Lakers' Austin Reaves linked to Jazz as free agency nears

The Lakers are widely expected to re-sign Austin Reaves. If they don’t, well, you just never know. In a recent free-agency and trade breakdown for Bleacher Report, NBA cap expert Eric Pincus floated the idea of the Jazz pursuing Reaves in a sign-and-trade scenario this summer. Getty This isn’t an actual discussion, as far as anyone knows (and Pincus wasn’t reporting it as such). But it is an interesting concept. Reaves is expected to decline his…