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Another Lakers board tidbit. This is what they're suggesting to fill out their roster.
PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 1:18 am Post subject:
My personal FA and buyout choices (ranked from best to worst):
PG: Alex Caruso, Trey Burke, Quinn Cook, Ramon Rondo (last resort and only for the minimum)
SF: Andre Iguodala, Vince Carter, Kyle Korver
PF/C: Marcus Morris, JaMychal Green, DeMarcus Cousins
My favorite is Lakers fans saying OKC should just give them Russ so OKC can have cap space and to "do right by Russ". LOL.
This is why they deserve everything they get because even in the face of getting crushed repeatedly they are still arrogant AF.
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 6, 2019
OMG that would be so cold, Lakers get 8th seed, bounced in the first round. Then AD packs up for NY, LeBron retires and they have only a ~14/15 pick in 2020, a lotto pick in 2022 and our 25-30 pick in 2023 for draft picks between now and 2024. And to to it off, no major free agents will touch the place with a 39 1/2 foot pole because of how much of a hot mess their front office is and the face that they let Rich Paul take over their team.
If AD wasn't a complete and total beta I could see a timeline where he punks the Lakers and walks in free agency.
But from everything AD has shown so far, Lebron will take him over his knee and whip him just for mentioning the idea of leaving him.
Okay so why hasn't the trade been completed yet? Our rookies have a game tonight
Updated 2019-20 NBA win projections after the LA madness: pic.twitter.com/dHVHgWI47d
— Jacob Goldstein (@JacobEGoldstein) July 6, 2019
Lol at the analysis models currently projecting us to win more games than LA and be a firm playoff team
Everyone says that processing all these trades takes time, but its not like the league office only has one person doing the work. Or is it? Why couldn't they put a dozen different people at work, some to process trades that need no waiting, and a few just to handle a complicated deal like the AD deal?
For a trade to be considered official not only does all the paperwork have to be signed and faxed to the league office but they have to setup a phone call with the teams involved and confirm their intent to trade with the details.
So that means the Lakers have to sign all those free agents first, then get on a phone call with the Pels and Washington. Then the Pels have to have their phone call with Atlanta to process that part of the trade.
Theres a lot of moving pieces beyond just how many people are working in the league office.
They agreed to these trades weeks ago. All that should've been worked out. What kinda nonsense is working out the details on the day of closing? All that should be done is signing papers at this point. I get Lakers have to sign their players, but they've been knew how much cap space they had.
It's not as simple as knowing what cap space you have. The Lakers were negotiating with other players too, some with conditions and demands for whether they have Kawhi or not. So they are still working through getting all that stuff processed too. Then the Pels trade will go through.
I get what you're saying but this is still bad business. Pelinka and Jeanie are novices and its showing. A day was agreed upon and because they didnt have their ducks in a row, instead of completing it at the beginning of the day. They're holding every one hostage and it'll be completed later in the evening. If they dont ask for more time.
When you spent six months saying the Pelicans surrounded Anthony Davis with trash but slowly realize you’re surrounding Davis with Pelicans castoffs pic.twitter.com/67K51c32ir
— Justin (@PootieWayne) July 6, 2019
Lakers fans spent all this energy trashing Dell Demps only to put the same players around AD
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 6, 2019
BI, Zion, and CJ had a net rating of +3 when on the court together. BI and Zion had a +13.4, BI and CJ had a +13.2, Zion and CJ was just +5.4.
BI and Zion worked. BI and CJ worked. It was CJ and Zion and all three together that didn't work.
Lakers fans and bloggers are hot around the collar. Locked on Lakers this past week has gone from “we got this” to “fire everyone and trade Lebron”.
Honestly, it’s been great.
If you Jimmer it, they will come.
Still not yet.
Man, I hate the Lakers so much.
Everyone else is just waiting on them, but they aren't doing the deal yet because they haven't used their cap space. WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?
They've known for weeks that if Kawhi didn't go there, they'd have to fill out their roster. WHY didn't they do what literally every other team has done, and make contact with free agents so that they had a stack of files ready to fire off in case Kawhi fell through? Why are they the only franchise this stupid?
Instead we, Utah, Memphis, Atlanta, Philly, Golden State, and others have to just sit around waiting for them to finish begging for Quinn Cook to sign on the minimum.
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