I don't care how you get rid of him, but I'd be shopping his contract this season and summer. If he isn't available, bye bye. Taking up a roster spot.
Yeah, he costs at least a first and that just doesn't make any sense for us. Only opportunity is some team blowing it up, like the Pels might. Blowing it up means at least 2-3 years tanking, so Vando can be a good asset in that scenario. But even if I'm a GM of such team, I'm still fleecing the Lakers. We just gotta accept he's not going anywhere and probably will get waive and stretched at some point. As you said, huge mistake by the medical team when they cleared him for a multi year contract