Lakers Trade Rumors: Bogdanovic, Clarkson, Beasley Targeted in Talks with Jazz

According to reports, the Los Angeles Lakers are interested in three Utah Jazz players.

Ahead of the start of the 2022-23 NBA regular season next month, The Athletic's Sam Amick and Jovan Buha claim that the Lakers are interested in three players.

The Jazz had reached the playoffs in each of the past seven seasons, but failed to get past the second round.

Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell were traded to Minnesota and Cleveland for huge packages of first-round draft picks and players.

The Utah team is made up of holdovers from last year's team and players acquired in the Gobert and Mitchell trades, and it seems likely that they would be willing to ship out more players for future assets.

L.A. sent Utah Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson for Patrick Beverley last month after he was picked up in the Gobert trade.

The L.A. missed the playoffs due to the fact that Anthony Davis and LeBron James missed a lot of time due to injury.

The Lakers don't have a championship roster even if King James and AD are healthy this season, and that's because Russell Westbrook opted into the final year of his contract in 2022-23, making it difficult for Los Angeles to free up the money needed to make any other notable moves.

It's unlikely that the Lakers will be able to get a third star to play with James and Davis.

During the past three seasons in Utah, the 33 year old has played at the highest level of his career.

Last season, he averaged a career-best 20.2 points per game, while shooting 45.3% from the field and 38.7% from three-point range.

Over the past three seasons, he has been at his best in Utah, despite spending parts of four seasons in L.A.

He won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2020-21 and averaged 16.0 points, 3.5 rebound, 2.5 assists and 2.4 three-pointers.

The 25-year-old was part of the Gobert trade and has been in the NBA for six years.

In 2020-21, he averaged a career-high 18.6 points per game and followed that up with a career-best 12.1 points, 3.0 three-pointers made, 2.9 rebound and 1.5 assists per game.

The Lakers need more offensive punch in order to support James and Davis.

It's not clear if the Lakers are going to land one, two or all of those players, but if they can find a way to bring in all of them without giving up too many current assets in return, they would have the look of a much more complete team than they are