The Los Angeles Lakers sit at 2-7 after losing at home to the Cleveland Cavaliers yesterday and it is becoming more clear by the day that, despite the presence of LeBron James, the Lakers are simply not a good team. Darvin Ham successfully convinced Russell Westbrook to move to the bench and the move has actually improved the controversial point guard's play. While Anthony Davis is fully healthy and LeBron has fresh legs, the new additions to the team are contributing to the level everybody expected.

So the Lakers continue to lose. Because they are a bad team. And the quickest path to changing that is not trading Westbrook, as is the popular suggestion. It is trading Anthony Davis.

It would be a shocking move by the Lakers, yet Bill Simmons kickstarted the rumors on his podcast this morning, saying there's "some buzzing" that AD could be available (at the 1:09:30 mark). Simmons framed it as a potential Plan B for the franchise to go with if the brain trust decides they won't move Westbrook.

This is obviously far from concrete intel and should not be taken as proof that Davis is on the block. But as a discussion starter, it makes… a lot of sense? Davis was supposed to be the 1B to LeBron's 1A by this point. The ceiling he flashed in his last year with the Pelicans and during the bubble championship with the Lakers suggested Davis could be a Top-5 player night-in and night-out if he's healthy. But he has failed to be anything even remotely resembling that guy since. As things stand, Davis is maybe a Top-20 player who has a lot of value defensively but isn't worth his $37 million salary.