Woj Reveals Lakers Biggest Free-Agent Threat to Keeping Dennis Schroder

The Los Angeles Lakers will have to face their biggest threat in the upcoming period. They may lose a valuable player. General Manager Rob Pelinka wouldn’t give up on Dennis Schroder that easily. The German native has a key role in LA but he will soon enter free agency.

The New York Knicks really like Schroder. Will they get him?

The Lakers to challenge their biggest threat in the NBA

In Zach Lowe’s podcast, Adrian Wojnarowski from ESPN reported that Schroder is one of players NY could target in the upcoming free agency.

The Knicks are entering free agency with $72.8 million.

“Yeah, I think they’re [Knicks] on the disgruntled star alert,” Wojnarowski described the Knicks’ offseason outlook. “…It depends what level of a star becomes available, and who do you want to cash your chips in [on] if they do. But I think they have the potential to be in the conversation as an option for a player who might want out somewhere, and I can’t sit here and tell you now, Zach who that’s going to be, if that’s going [to happen]. Sometimes that player emerges off of a bad first-round exit, or a coach is let go that that player connected with, [and] doesn’t like the new guy. Whatever it is, there are a lot of things that trigger it.

I don’t know that there is an obvious one right now, but history tells us someone will emerge because it almost always does. The Knicks are very much on patrol for that, I don’t know that it’s going to be unrestricted free agency this summer. I don’t know if it’s that. We mentioned like a Dennis Schroder, Lonzo [Ball] in restricted free agency. But certainly, I think they’ll be out there trying to take some big swings in the trade market.”

Rob Pelinka to make a decision

The franchise can pull out an incredible trade deal. Los Angeles tried to sign their veteran guard to a long-term deal in the regular season. However, he decided to test out free agency.

Schroder is playing smart with this one.

Brian Windhorst from ESPN reported that the German native declined a four-year deal worth $84 million.

Jake Fischer from Bleacher Report reported that New York may offer Schroder a deal that tops $90 million.