Lakers Trade Rumors: Lakers Would Be Wrong to Trade Pau Gasol for Youth

The Los Angeles Lakers are taking a tried and true formula and throwing it out the window. It's a good thing the Los Angeles Clippers were there to pick it up and put it into action. 

At least then there will be one team worth watching this season at the Staples Center. As we can all agree, stars matter in the NBA. Sure, you can have a solid team of role players and win the World Series, but this is five-on-five and teams like the Lakers, Celtics and Bulls have ruled. 

It takes a team loaded with stars to win a title, and that is what the Clippers have finally realized and what the Lakers may be forgetting. 

Kurt Helin of ProBasketballTalk tweets a report given by ESPN's Ric Bucher. Bucher relayed on air that the Lakers are still trying to ship one big piece in Pau Gasol for younger parts. 

That funky stuff is about to hit the fan. For now, we have no idea what the Lakers are looking at, but we can assume what kind of young talent they are going to receive in such a deal. 

No team is going to trade a couple of rising stars for one aging stud. This is the NBA, where stars are traded for far less than their worth. The team sending away a superstar never gets just return on their investment. 

With that being the case, the Lakers are readying to send off the Spaniard who helped them win two—not for Dwight Howard or a similar star—for youth. 

When did we all agree that the Lakers should rebuild? If Pau Gasol is a 10, the Lakers are about to get two or three players that are a six at best. You simply don't win titles that way. 

What's more, Kobe Bryant would walk out of Staples Center, step out into Figueroa and gladly accept what oncoming traffic has for him. 

These rumors can't be true. The Lakers aren't dumb enough to trade the two most versatile bigs in the NBA for nothing all in one deplorable preseason. 

Then again, I wouldn't put anything past Jim Buss. Not after what we have seen in the past couple of weeks. 

I don't think I am comfortable with the new Los Angeles, where the Clippers are favorites and Donald Sterling is more committed to winning than any one Buss. 

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