Trading for Sacramento Kings star De'Aaron Fox may be cheaper than what the Cleveland Cavaliers paid to acquire Donovan Mitchell in 2022. According to

De'Aaron Fox is a better basketball player than Austin Reaves. We can get that part out of the way from the start. There is no real statistical argument otherwise. Even the most optimistic projections of Reaves' increasingly bright future have to acknowledge that Fox has physical gifts that he simply does not.

De'Aaron Fox could get traded before the NBA's Feb. 6 trade deadline, but the Lakers aren't willing to do one thing in order to land him.