Clippers Trade for All-Star Point Guard in This Wild Trade Prediction

The Los Angeles Clippers are bad. It also doesn’t look like they have many avenues to get better anytime soon. They started the season with hopes of being a title contender. Now they look like they’re headed to the bottom of the league and don’t even have their own draft pick to capitalize on it. It’s looking like the Clippers are in total disaster mode.

Does this mean they need to do something drastic? Since they don’t own their own pick, they could try to make a win-now trade that gets them off the floor of the Western Conference standings. 

Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report proposed “1 Trade Every NBA Team Would Make If the Deadline Was Today,” and his trade for the Clippers landed them a star point guard. 

"The trade: LaMelo Ball to the Los Angeles Clippers for John Collins, Bogdan Bogdanović, Cam Christie, and 2030 first-round pick (top-3 protected)

Trading Ball probably isn't a universally supported idea in Buzz City, but if the Hornets could extract actual value for him, shouldn't they be open to a reset? His injury problems aren't going away, his efficiency has cratered, and his commitment to winning keeps being questioned.

It'll still take more for Charlotte to move on from him than a simple addition-by-subtraction possibility, but that's not all L.A. would be offering here. That future first could be ultra-valuable given all the questions around that organization's outlook.”

Trading for LaMelo would certainly be a huge swing. It would make the Clippers a lot younger and would give them a player to build some hope for the future around. 

On the other hand, LaMelo hasn’t proved that he is a winner yet either. The Hornets haven’t even been able to make the playoffs with him in the Eastern Conference. Should the Clippers really believe he’ll be able to do it in a more competitive West?