5 Reasons the Lakers Shouldn’t Trade Pau Gasol

Ever since the Lakers faltered in the playoffs after winning back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010, critics have been looking to shake up their roster. That is the nature of analysis that lives in the present and takes a player's most recent performance as their most important one.

The player most often put on the theoretical trade block has been Pau Gasol. There's good reason for that, however. 

Gasol, though a main cog in winning those aforementioned titles, quickly became the odd man out when Andrew Bynum developed into a vital contributor. His game became the one that overlapped with Bynum's and, thus, he became expendable.

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