With the trade deadline looming, what LA Clippers’ players are most likely and least likely to be traded ahead of Thursday’s deadline?
The LA Clippers have been discussed among numerous circles as buyers ahead of Thursday’s NBA trade deadline. Most reports discuss the idea of adding a wing player or a big man to add to an already impressive roster after adding Kawhi Leonard and Paul George this summer.
Sitting at 35-15, the Clippers are primed to sit in one of the top two or three Western Conference playoff spots ahead of the postseason and adding to the roster would only help their chances even more with the right additions.
Now, of course, the Clippers are not guaranteed to make a move before Thursday but players on the roster can definitely be moved for available players from other teams to improve in specific areas, such as defense on the perimeter and better rim protection from the five position.
Lawrence Frank, Steve Ballmer, Doc Rivers, and Jerry West have done a tremendous job formulating a championship roster over the past 16 months or so and to think they don’t have something planned, even if that means not moving anyone at all, would be outlandish.
These rankings, of course, do not mean these players are by any means going to be moved before Thursday but can create some fun thoughts as to how the Clippers can make an already solid roster even better for the final stretch and the looming playoff push.