The Lakers are trading Gabe Vincent and a 2032 second-round pick to the Hawks for Luke Kennard, according to ESPN’s Sham Charania.
In Kennard, the Lakers get a career 44.2% 3-point shooter who’s hitting them at a league-high 49.7% this season. As a team, the Lakers are shooting just 34.8% on 3s this year. Theoretically, Kennard should provide a boost on offense as Los Angeles looks to climb up the Western Conference standings in the home stretch of the regular season (they currently sit in sixth behind the Timberwolves).
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Vincent started seven games for the Lakers this season, averaging 6.9 points and 1.3 assists in 19.3 minutes per game. According to Jake Fischer, Atlanta plans to keep both Vincent and Buddy Hield, who was acquired in the Jonathan Kuminga trade Wednesday night.
According to The Athletic, the Hawks generated an $11 million trade exception by acquiring Vincent into the leftover exception for Bogdan Bogdanović, which was set to expire tomorrow.
Both Kennard and Vincent are on expiring contracts and will be unrestricted free agents this summer.
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