The Los Angeles Lakers stunned the basketball world with their trade for Luka Dončić Saturday night and according to Yahoo’s Kevin O’Connor, the team is not finished with making deals yet.

The host of the Kevin O’Connor Show reported that the team is still focused on finding a big man and that the New York Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson is on their radar.

If so, the Knicks must move Robinson before the trade deadline.

The talented center has been the subject of trade talk before, and his history of lower-body injuries over the last three seasons has limited his availability to the team. He has yet to play a single minute for New York this season, but head coach Tom Thibodeau revealed he is cleared for contact practice, a significant step on his way back to the court.

Despite the general excitement surrounding the Knicks and their opportunity to see their vision from this past offseason fully realized with Robinson’s return to the lineup, now is also the best time to make a deal with the Lakers.

Los Angeles proved their desperation to make a splash with both the secrecy of the Dončić trade and their willingness to send Anthony Davis to Dallas as part of it. It is a team that knows there are lofty expectations and wants desperately to realize them while they still have LeBron James in the building.

With Davis gone and a serious lack of depth at the center position, the team will likely be more willing to give up assets to acquire a player they believe can be a difference-maker at the five. If Robinson is on their radar and they want to acquire the 26-year-old to pair with Dončić and James, the Knicks should get everything they can in return for him.

The Lakers still have an unprotected 2031 first-rounder, a protected 2027 first, swap rights on their 2026, 2028, and 2030 first-round picks, and a pair of second-round picks in 2025 (theirs and the Clippers’).

If the Knicks want more depth out of the deal than draft picks, it could receive Jaxson Hayes to replace the big man and possibly add Rui Hachimura or Gabe Vincent as additional depth on a roster already one of the most impressive in the league.

Robinson has a career average of 24 minutes and eight points, shoots 70.1 from the floor, and tallies 7.9 rebounds per game. He is elite at the rim and would provide the Lakers exactly what they are looking for from that position. Whether he can stay healthy is the question and one the Knicks should not worry about answering anymore.

Robinson is on the Lakers’ radar and even if the team had not previously considered dealing him, they should, especially knowing how determined Los Angeles has been to fill that hole on their roster. That he is still young gives the Knicks relative leverage in adding to the return and further filling out a roster that could lead them to their first Eastern Conference title in a quarter-century