Lakers Limited Through the Draft

Justin Bieber a Laker? Sound far-fetched? Of course it does. However, he and legendary Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash do have something in common. they're both Canadian. This leads to the yearly discussion about what moves will the Los Angeles Lakers make in the off season to improve the team. They currently hold one draft pick. The very last one, #60. 

While I refuse to speculate at this point with the playoffs still going on to make any guesses I will say this could be one of toughest off-seasons for Mitch Kupchak and company. With so much money already committed to players on the rosters and little to offer via trades it's going to be hard to get better talent. The only valuable pieces that could garner any value in return would be Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. Everyone on radio, newspaper and the blogosphere has Gasol in their trade machine. Bynum could possibly, maybe, probably not, be only available in a Dwight Howard trade. If any deal is done in the months to come I would imagine they'd like to get a draft pick included in return to make the draft process last longer than a minute. 

Anyway, there will be plenty of speculation from fans and "experts" in the months to come so if you have a favorite non-Laker player there's a good chance he'll be discussed in a potential trade. On the bright side, signing Bieber would at least have girlfriend, Selena Gomez, regularly at Staples to watch him play.