"Los Angeles Times" said : Lakers trade Lou Williams to Houston for Corey Brewer, first-round pick

Williams is to be paid $7 million each season; Brewer will make $7.61 million this season and $7.58 million next season. The Lakers, most likely lottery-bound, agreed to send shooting guard Williams to the playoff-bound Houston Rockets in exchange for small forward Brewer and a future first-round draft pick. In December 2014, Minnesota traded Brewer to Houston. "It's a lot of talent," Brewer said of the Lakers' roster. Last season Brewer played in all 82 games for the Rockets, starting 12, and averaged 7.2 points per game.


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Lakers trade Lou Williams to Houston for Corey Brewer

"Thanks to everyone in the Houston Rockets organization for my time here," Brewer wrote in a statement released on Twitter. The Los Angeles Lakers have swung their first deal of the Magic Johnson Era, agreeing to send Lou Williams to the Houston Rockets for Corey Brewer and a future draft pick. "Thanx for the love L.A., I've enjoyed my stay," Williams wrote on Twitter. Williams led the Lakers in scoring at 18.6 points per game, playing off the bench. Brewer's agent Wallace Prather confirmed the terms of the trade, which were first reported Tuesday by Yahoo Sports.


Because Williams signed his three-year deal with the Lakers before the salary cap spiked last offseason, he's underpaid in the current NBA landscape. But keep in mind that finishing with even the second-worst record in the NBA guarantees the Lakers nothing. If the two NBA trades this week indicate anything, it's that we're in a buyer's market. Could the Lakers have possibly gotten less than the 27th pick if they just held onto Williams and traded him in the offseason? Brewer is a non-factor in the trade and won't have much of a future role with the rebuilding Lakers, so the trade was basically Williams for a very late first-round pick.


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