The Los Angeles Lakers announced they have acquired the draft rights to guard Cameron Carr, the 24th overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, as part of a four-team trade. In exchange, the Lakers sent the draft rights to Sergio De Larrea, the 25th overall pick, and cash considerations to the New York Knicks.
To complete the trade, the Dallas Mavericks announced they have acquired the draft rights to De Larrea while sending the draft rights to the 2026 30th overall selection Koa Peat to the Phoenix Suns, and the draft rights to Melvin Ajinça (51st overall pick in 2024) and two second-round picks to New York.
The final part of the trade was the Suns sending the 47th overall pick and two future second-round picks to the Knicks.
Because this trade took so long for the league to process, Rob Pelinka did not speak to the local media after the first round of the draft on Tuesday night as he normally does.
While there are a lot of moving parts in this trade, all that matters from the Lakers aspect is that they sent cash to the Knicks to move up from 25 to 24 in order to draft Carr.
Last season at Baylor, Carr averaged a team-high 18.9 points on 49.4% shooting from the field, 37.4% from 3-point range and 80.1% from the free-throw line, while adding 5.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.3 blocks in 34 games (all starts). He earned All-Big 12 Third Team honors after scoring 642 total points, the fifth-most in a single season in Baylor history. Defensively, Carr led the Bears with 45 blocked shots and finished among the Big 12’s top 10 in the category. The 21-year-old Minnesota native began his collegiate career at the University of Tennessee for two seasons before transferring to Baylor.
Carr will wear jersey No. 43 for the Purple and Gold, which is the same number he wore with the Bears.
Lakers hard capped at second apron after sending cash to draft Cameron Carr
Because the Lakers sent out cash to move up to pick 24, they are officially hard capped at the second apron of the salary cap under the rules of the new collective bargaining agreement.
While a hard cap is never ideal, the Lakers are so far below the second apron that it likely will not matter. They can still use all of their salary cap space and re-sign players using bird rights and exceptions while staying well below the second apron.
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