Where does the Lakers pick need to land in order not to defer to 2025?

that, plus it's not like we'er going to have many spots open on the roster

if Lebron is even a Laker next season. He might try and weasel his way out of town for wherever Bronny ends up

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Defer unless it’s top 5 which it won’t be.

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I would say top 10.

And there's always the possibility of LeBron or Davis getting a significant injury, so it can't be ruled out.

Yeah I don’t see an organization ready to jump at him yet with the minutes he will get this year.

Top 3-4. This draft is very unimpressive

Unless Lebron or AD has a serious injury, they are going to be a playoff team so its highly likely we are defering to 2025. It would need to be top 10 or 12 for me to take it.
and the only reason i'd take it if it was at 12 or so, is so we could use our own pick and that pick to move up a couple of spots in the draft to take someone we are really wanting at maybe 7 or 8.

I saw before where someone said if we defer the 2024 to 2025, then we get to swap picks in 20024 if applicable.
I can't find that detail anywhere. Can someone find that, and if it is true, then does it apply to 2025 where we could pick swap that year if we were to take the 2024 pick now?

That's not what i said.
i said pick swap.

What I've seen floating around on here is if we defer this year to 2025, we still get to swap picks with them this year if we were to have the higher pick.

The swap option is from the Milwaukee trade.

The swap option from the Lakers was for this past draft where we obviously did not pull the trigger on because we had the better pick.