Doug “The Exderminator” McDermott is one of my sneaky lowkey candidates to get traded at the trade deadline. If you continue reading you will find that my rationale is bolstered by an undeniable soundness of logic which is typical for all of my NBA-related opinions.
You think The Exderminator’s role is too small now? Just you wait until Victor Oladipo gets back on the court, which is supposed to be any day now. The Exderminator will be marginalized so hard that you’ll be able to hear his screams of agony all the way in Los Angeles. The Pacers will see that they have this valuable asset rotting on their bench generating no value via his on-court play, so they’ll have him generate value by trading him for hella draft picks.
Los Angeles, is, coincidentally, where he’ll get traded to. After a string of inexplicable Lakers losses, LeBron is realizing that his bench squad needs some help. By acquiring McDermott, who is basically a souped-up Troy Daniels on steroids, the Lakers will have a tried-and-true shooting threat coming off the bench. Remember how much LeBron loved playing with Kyle Korver? It will be like that except this version of Kyle Korver is way younger and doesn’t have 100,000 miles on his legs.
I don’t actually know if the Lakers have any draft picks to give up (the Pelicans probably have them all) but if they do, you just know that they’re currently shoving those picks into one giant “pick pile” that will be shipped off to Indiana at the earliest possible opportunity.