Trade & FA 2024-25:

[KillerLeft]

Per Stein:

The Lakers are known to be exploring pathways to shed some additional salary via trades to create sufficient wiggle room needed under the second apron to make use of their $5.2 million taxpayer midlevel exception. Yet even those kinds of moves likely require some form of second-round draft capital attached and taking in a player via sign-and-trade, as a first apron team, is not permitted under the league's new rules.

Those would be the same pathways to shed additional salary they explored trying to create room under the Apron for Klay Thompson, lol. They've been exploring for a while. I guess nobody wants Gave Vincent or D'angelo Russell.