With NBA Trading Deadlines, Anthony Davis – Not Lebron James – Putting pressure on Lakers

We know Anthony Davis He wants to Los Angeles Lakers to acquire another great man.

It, in itself, itself, is not surprising, given which you prefer playing the game in five.

But something else is surprising: this time it is him Speaking and exercising pressure on the front office for Lakers to make a trade.

Over the past few years, Lebron James is the voice of the organization, and open and covert. He has been thinking as one of the main reasons why Lakers traded pieces from his team of Championship 2020. In order to procure Russell Westbrook 2021. Years. And when it didn’t work, he made it clear that he was not happy to do so from 2023. years, even calling “the spirit of question” to the question whether Kirie Irving can help transform the team. Lakers lasted to trade Westbrook and gain six new players on the way to reach the Western Conference Finals and the season.

Now, with Lakers in the fifth place and possibly just a few adjustments from the actual candidates, Davis took it on himself to give Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka Ne-subtle hump on the back end, using a television interview its point.

“I think we need another big one,” Davis ESPN said. “I feel like I’ve always been at best when I was four.”

In many ways, these are still the most specific evidence of the passage of Bačka from James to Davis.

James, who turned in December in December, made clear media in the last few seasons that Lyri was now Davis’s team. It is clear that Davis accepted that role in the field. He opened the season by playing basketball of MVP caliber and is currently an average of 25.9 points to 52.4 percent, 11.9 rebokes, 3.5 assists, and 2.2 blocks the game.

But be the so-called spokesman Lakers’ is the new territory for him.

When the Lakeers returned to the court after a break in two matches in their season due to wildfires around Los Angeles, Davis talked to the media after their game against San Antonio 13. January. James did not talk 13. January. James didn’t talk.

And now, in front of the trade deadline, Davis is that it is most important about the needs of the team.

Davis recently said that he embraced that he was a “type” on the abuters.

“I just know we could do something we’ve talked about in previous years and this year, to get to the promised land, I need to play how I play now” Davis said Fox Sport. “It was never a conversation with me and (Lebron) where it was like,” Hey, this is your team and I give you keys or anything. “It was just something we just played on each other. And that just happened.”

Davis believes that another championship is urgently won, especially since James admitted that he would not play “until the wheels remain” and probably only one or two seasons remain.

With the Serbian deadline of 6. February around the corner, Davis applied some pressure. Doubled on his comments on the question about them after Lakers beat the ruling Boston Celtics champion Last Thursday.

Davis said Lakers were “a little more frantically” defensively when playing four. And insultingly, he added to release him, allowing him to “float a little more.”

“I started playing only five 2021. years,” Davis said. “I would stretch, but first of all I was four. So my whole career I played four. And I just feel a little more efficient (in four). I mean, (playing five) has its advantages and Disadvantages. But the front office knows that. I told them that every year I was here. But I just feel like I’m in person. “Better player in four.”

These were strong words for Davis, who are now in their sixth season with Lakers. In the past, most politics left James. Now, he is the one who makes clear recognition.

It will be interesting to see what Lakers do. Will trading their first round choice and go for another star in an attempt to win now? Will they make a smaller move with choosing a second round? Will it be Pat, as they worked on the deadline last year?

James recently said that Lakers had to play almost the perfect basketball to win with their current list. “We don’t have places for a mistake,” he said.

It is a high warrant for James and Davis at the competitive Western conference, in which 10 teams have records above .500.

Pelinka has already made a move this season, D’Angelo Russell trader, Maxwell Lewis and three seconds chooses in Brooklyn Network in December Dorian Finnei-Smith and Shake Milton.

But Super-Courswalk Super Stars obviously feel that it is necessary to make it a real candidate. In fact, at James’s 40. Birthday 30. December, he offered a very sincere assessment of his team.

“Can we win the championship now?” James asked. “No, I don’t think so. But that’s good because we have so much space to improve.”

As for Davis’s statement to a statement for another big man, Dwight Howard quickly volunteered for the role, tweeting, “it wasn’t so hard to find the center.” Howard, of course, played with James and Davis during his championship in 2020. years before the last play in Taiwan in 2022-23.

There are many more likely options that Lakers would target that they were looking for another big one. But that is certain for sure: Pelinka has difficult things to harder.

They play with slashes so well, including winning five last six games, put pressure on the sunshine to make moves that would now make them a championship team now. But, of course, it could be on the victim of the long-term renovated after James retires.

At least Davis did it clear what he wanted.

He wants Lakers now to dim the team, putting him and James in a position to win another title together.

“We always want to have the opinion of the championship,” Davis said. “We always want to be attainable.”

And in that process, it proves something else.

The so-called torch passage was more than just solemn.

Melissa Rohlin is a writer of NBA for Fox Sports. She has previously covered the league for illustrated sports, the Los Angeles Times, news about the flow in the Gulf San Antonio Express-West. Follow it on Twitter @Melissarohl.

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