Ben McLemore to LAL

Apr 6, 20212020-21free agent signingplayer page →transaction →

Pre-move team need

Available

Listed top needs: shooting, creation, passing.

Incoming player's observed functions

High

Strongest prior functions: shooting, rim pressure, interior finish.

Stable front-end label for the underlying evidence state; inspect the supporting relation for the measured fields and evidence boundary.

Measured need alignment

Partial need alignment

Matched needs: shooting. Match ratio 33%.

Some, but not all, of the incoming player's strongest observed functions matched leading pre-move needs.

Post-move role & workload

Withheld No Receiving Team Post Move Role Profile

No receiving-team post-move role profile exists — this stays withheld, not judged.

The database withheld this conclusion because the required evidence or coverage was not available.

Asset price

Not Applicable Nontrade Acquisition

No outgoing assets recorded

Stable front-end label for the underlying evidence state; inspect the supporting relation for the measured fields and evidence boundary.

Contract / cap cost

Withheld — No selected player charge

Player charge unavailable

Authority context

Exact basketball authority match

Lead executive: Rob Pelinka. regime page →

The decision date falls inside one resolved basketball-authority regime for this team.

Shared-floor evidence

Shared-floor and workload evidence after the move.

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Fit, role realization, price, authority and post-move usage are parallel evidence lanes; none is a decision-quality or causal verdict.

observed_acquisition_not_inferred_intent; prior_season_need_proxy; post_role_is_hindsight; realized_same_window_market_not_rumor_universe

CoverageResolved

withheld: falseresolved acquisition: truecontext function count: 3workload function count: 3interaction function count: 3transaction context present: false

Supporting relations (6)

gb_state.frontend_acquisition_review_v
gb_state.frontend_current_transaction_player_movement_v
gb_transactions.asset_move
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_lineup_interaction_state_v
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_lineup_context_state_v
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_workload_transfer_state_v