The Los Angeles Lakers will look to continue their roster overhaul as they try to put the right pieces around Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. 

Gone are LeBron James, Marcus Smart, Rui Hachimura, Luke Kennard, and Deandre Ayton, all five of whom were key rotation players and all five of whom started in a playoff game against the Houston Rockets. 

Arriving are Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili, Collin Sexton, Quentin Grimes, and Kevon Looney. 

The Lakers also drafted wing Cameron Carr in the first round, and he is viewed as someone who can contribute this season. 

While the team has put new pieces around Doncic and Reaves, they might not be done adding. 

According to Lakers reporter Khobi Price, the Atlanta Hawks are open to the idea of executing a sign-and-trade that would send Jonathan Kuminga to the Lakers in exchange for Jarred Vanderbilt and a 2032 first-round pick swap. 

Kuminga is an unrestricted free agent and can be signed outright by the Lakers. Vanderbilt is set to make $12 million this upcoming season and has a player option worth $13 million the following season. 

The Lakers are already short on first-round picks after trading unprotected first-round picks in 2031 and 2033, alongside first-round pick swaps in 2028 and 2030, to acquire Walker Kessler from the Utah Jazz. 2032 would be their last tradeable first-round pick. 

Kuminga averaged 12.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.3 assists on 47% shooting from the field and 34% from three in 36 games with the Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks this past season. Vanderbilt averaged 4.4 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.3 assists on 47% shooting and 29% from three in 65 games with the Lakers. 

Not when they can outright sign Kuminga and don't need to give up a first-round pick. They still have $9.3 million in a room mid-level exception if Kuminga is willing to take that. 

They are likely looking to salary dump Vanderbilt anyway, so if Kuminga wants more, a sign-and-trade where Vanderbilt is the piece going back makes sense, but the Hawks don't have leverage with Kuminga being an unrestricted free agent, and the Lakers shouldn't be willing to give away their only tradeable first-round pick for an unrestricted free agent. 

Maybe the Lakers attached a second-round pick to the deal to get it over the line, but they have no incentive to trade a first-round pick in a sign-and-trade when they have their own money to offer Kuminga if he wants to be a Laker.