David Thorpe: L.A. is the likely destination for Westbrook, so the Lakers could just sit and wait a year.

But why not be able to offer him the richest contract possible next July? Getting Adams would allow the Lakers to have a potential All-Star for years to come, and they can move Timofey Mozgov at the trade deadline.

Why would the Lakers insist on Adams? Because they would be giving up three high-upside players who are on below-market rookie contracts, while Westbrook would be free to leave the Lakers in 2017 if he wanted to. Adams would be the price of taking on the Thunder's risk that Westbrook might depart.

This trade would give the Lakers two fantastic building blocks and set them up for next year's free agency. And the pick ensures a young talent to help them stay afloat down the line.

For the Lakers, moving their three best building blocks would hurt -- especially Ingram -- but they are far from ready to play with the likes of Westbrook, Adams and Luol Deng. Also -- the trade would allow Clarkson to develop in a better, winning environment.

OKC would three very talented young guys to start over, as they did when they drafted Kevin Durant, Westbrook and James Harden in succession from 2007 to 2009. While these players won't hit the same heights, likely, but it's following the model similar to the one that allowed Presti and the Thunder to build a great team in the first place.

Williams and Young might yield assets in follow-up trades.

The Thunder would probably want to hold on to the pick, but with all this young talent coming back -- and don't forget Victor Oladipo, Cameron Payne and Enes Kanter -- they have enough player development challenges ahead.

Regardless, in just a few years time, OKC would be back in the thick of things.

Boston Celtics

Thunder get: Marcus Smart, Jae Crowder, Amir Johnson, and rights to the Celtics' first-round pick swap with the Nets in 2017

Celtics get: Westbrook

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Steve Ilardi: Boston GM Danny Ainge has been accumulating assets for years in the hopes of landing a superstar, so the question now becomes: How much is he willing to give up to acquire Westbrook?

Since Russ is a transcendent NBA talent -- and top five in ESPN's predictive real plus-minus (RPM) -- teams would surely line up with jaw-dropping trade offers to secure his services if he were made available.

Players of Westbrook's caliber are almost never traded in their prime and -- as Sam Hinkie never tired of reminding us -- superstars are a prerequisite for any team's credible championship run. So I suspect the Celtics would be willing to deal at least three of their prized assets to get Westbrook.

The proposed trade would leave Boston with a hole at small forward, but they could still address it with another trade (or free agent pickup). And even without further roster tweaks, their new core of Westbrook, Isaiah Thomas, Avery Bradley, Al Horford, Jared Sullinger (assuming they re-sign the restricted free agent) and Kelly Olynyk should vault them into contention with the Cavs in the East.

The deal also makes sense for OKC. The Thunder would nab a coveted lottery pick, bring home native son Marcus Smart and yield an emerging two-way threat in Jae Crowder. Smart and Crowder would fit nicely with Victor Oladipo, Andre Roberson and Steven Adams to give the Thunder a stable of young defensive studs, a few complementary scorers ( Anthony Morrow, Enes Kanter and Ersan Ilyasova) and a couple of talented youngsters (Payne and Domantas Sabonis).

Yes, losing Westbrook (and Durant) would be a crushing blow, but such a trade could help kickstart a promising OKC rebuild.

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Bradford Doolittle: Right after the Durant news broke, I tweeted wondering whether Danny Ainge had already called about Westbrook, or if he'd allow Sam Presti a respectful time to recover.

That knee-jerk reaction -- that the Celtics are the obvious fit -- remains true for me. Westbrook would boost Boston into the elite, teaming with Al Horford to make the Celtics a challenging opponent for Cleveland in a possible East final.

As a slight variation on the trade proposed by Steve Ilardi above, Boston has the draft stock to spare and can include Isaiah Thomas, Smart or Jaylen Brown, along with Brooklyn's 2017 first-rounder (a pick-swap option) as a starting point.

For the Celtics, there's a risk that Westbrook would leave after one season. But I'd gamble that a year of winning in Boston and playing for Brad Stevens would sell him on the organizational culture. Horford and Westbrook would be the best non-Cleveland one-two punch in the East, and the Celtics would still have a deep roster of top role players and defenders around them, and ways to build further.

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The Thunder would begin again in their quest for a franchise star and would swap roles with the Celtics. Oklahoma City would remain a playoff contender and hope that the Brooklyn pick pays off in a new foundation player.