The most bleak trading trend in the NBA offseason has appeared!

According to the latest report by TA famous reporter Sam Amick, Zach Lavin does not have any trading market at present. If the Kings want to send him away, they will not even get any draft picks - this means that Lavin has completely reduced from a two-time All-Star to a "negative asset" and is unwilling to take over even the rebuilding team!

Review of the three-party transactions between the Kings, Bulls and Spurs last season's trading deadline:

The Kings got: Laven + Sissoko + 3 first-round picks + 3 second-round picks

The Bulls got: Collins + Trey Jones + Hult + 1 first-round pick

The Spurs got: Fox + McLaughlin

This transaction completely exposed Laven's real market - the Bulls sold for two years and finally only exchanged for 1 first round, and the Kings not only got Laven, but also made a net profit of 3 first rounds! In other words, Fox is worth at least 2 first rounds higher than LaVine, and LaVine has even become a player who needs to be "reversely paid" to send it away.

LaVine averaged 24.0 points and 22.4 points per game during last season with the Bulls and Kings, with a shooting percentage of 51.1%, a 3-point shooting percentage of 44.6%, and his efficiency of 3.2 three-pointers per game ranked first among the league's 3+ three-pointers, and even nearly achieved a 180 club achievement. After joining the Kings, his real shooting percentage rose to 64.2%, a career high, with offensive BPM+1.8 second only to Sabonis Jr., showing the efficiency of a top scorer.

But the black hole attributes on the defensive end completely swallowed up his value. Last season at the Kings, the team lost 119.9 points in 100 rounds and lost 3.8 points in a net loss when LaVine was present; after he left the court, the team lost 100 rounds and lost 5.9 points in a net loss. The effect of "negative on the field" is not accidental - the career defense BPM has never been positive, and this season's performance of 2.3 further confirms his extreme attribute of "strong offense and weak defense". When he formed the Big Three with DeRozan and Sao, the Kings lost 119.8 points in a hundred rounds and lost 3.7 points. Such defensive efficiency is like a disaster for the championship team. The contract issue became the last straw that broke his back. The 5-year maximum salary of 215 million yuan signed in 2022 is now only two years left (46 million, 48.97 million player options), but this salary is seriously unbalanced with his contribution.

You should know that when his annual salary was 19.5 million before 2022, Lavender was still a cost-effective player at the All-Star level; after getting the maximum salary, his ability to lead the team and defensive attitude did not rise but fell. The only time in his career faced the Bucks in the playoffs, with an average of only 19.3 points per game, and his shooting percentage plummeted to 42.9%, completely exposing the shortcomings of "hard battles and soft feet".

The King's mystery operation made his situation even worse. Last season, he forced the "three offense, zero defense" combination of Lavin, DeRozan and Sa's "three offense, zero defense" combination, which has long been proven to be unworkable by the failure of the Bulls era, but it is still copied and pasted.

Now the team plans to chase Kumingga and sign Westbrook, and the backcourt is filled with a group of players with strong offense and weak offense, such as Raven, DeRozan, Monk, Schroder, etc., and the defensive loopholes will only further expand, and it is even more difficult for Raven to turn around in such a system.