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I hope Julius pulls a Deandre on cry baby Cuban.
**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins
- Thread in 'Sports & Training' Thread starter Started by licensed to ball,
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- Feb 5, 2013
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hes definitely getting offers of the mid level, so its gonna cost what 12-14 per ?
VinMillerHearn58
formerly lakersreppa008
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This trade is 100% a win-win for both us and the Cavs.
Plus IT will get some pretty dope Kobe AD's in Laker colorways
Plus IT will get some pretty dope Kobe AD's in Laker colorways
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Idk. You think Dal wants to sell that to their fan base? A core of DSJ, Barnes and Randle?
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Dallas is really the only team that will offer Randle anything. We'll see what happens. Maybe Randle takes the qualifying offer to become an unrestricted free agent in 2019.
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would rather tank and get bagley
now they got a shooter in mcbuckets
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What other choice do they have?
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Damn how did Deron Williams career fall off so bad after he left Utah ?
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He didn’t care anymore. Paul Pierce used to talk about that all the time when they played together.
- Feb 29, 2000
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man **** larry nance jr. good riddance
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Isiah Thomas 
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Lakers buying out lopez?
- Feb 29, 2000
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they better not
- Apr 24, 2006
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Windhorst just threw out that idea on The Jump today, no source to back it up
I think Magic wants to win games this year to make us as attractive as possible for FAs. We’ll keep Brook and KCP imo
I think Magic wants to win games this year to make us as attractive as possible for FAs. We’ll keep Brook and KCP imo
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Something something broken clocks
Los Angeles
formerly bright nikes
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You go boy!
pmatic
pmatic
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Nobody's paying more than 30-35m a year for Klay or Draymond
If they trade Iguodala, dump Swaggy P, Zaza & Livingston they basically have a good 30mill to spread across the 3
The Cavs were paying Channing Frye 7mill
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ESPN trade grade for the lakers:
Of course this is all assuming that we get the max free agents we want. I’m excited but cautiously optimistic. July can’t come soon enough...
Los Angeles Lakers: A
Trading Clarkson was more or less a necessary part of the Lakers' path to creating two max salary spots this summer. Even if the Lakers instead decide to roll over their cap space to the summer of 2019, as ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski reported earlier this week, this trade still made sense. After all, Clarkson was under contract through 2019-20, so if the Lakers were going all-in on free agency he was going to have to go at some point. That the Lakers were able to move Clarkson without giving up a pick is a clear win.
Having the extra $12.5 million in cap space this summer will come in handy even without signing a max free agent (or two). The Lakers can take advantage of the limited cap space available in free agency to make lucrative one-year deals to players, as they did last summer with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, to remain competitive in the interim.
Moving Nance wasn't so obvious a decision, but getting the first-round pick back from Cleveland softens the blow. Nance for the pick would have been a reasonable deal, and probably a win for the Lakers because they'll get up to four years of cost control as compared to the year-plus remaining on Nance's rookie contract.
Nance became a tougher fit in the Lakers' 2019 plan because his cap hit would balloon from his $2.3 million 2018-19 salary to $6.8 million as a restricted free agent. By contrast, the Cavaliers' pick will have a salary somewhere in the range of $2 million in 2019-20.
The Lakers do take on an "island of misfit toys" look the rest of the season. Thomas, who grew up a Lakers fan (one story of the origin of his name has to do with his father losing a bet on the Lakers beating Isiah Thomas' Detroit Pistons in the 1989 NBA Finals), has long desired to play in L.A. But this probably wasn't exactly the circumstances he had in mind.
How Thomas' ball-dominant style will fit with the developing talents of Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram is difficult to see. Yet Shelburne reported the Lakers plan to keep Thomas and play him heavy minutes the remainder of the season.
The other heartwarming note here is that Frye is reunited with Lakers coach Luke Walton, his teammate for two seasons at Arizona.
Trading Clarkson was more or less a necessary part of the Lakers' path to creating two max salary spots this summer. Even if the Lakers instead decide to roll over their cap space to the summer of 2019, as ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski reported earlier this week, this trade still made sense. After all, Clarkson was under contract through 2019-20, so if the Lakers were going all-in on free agency he was going to have to go at some point. That the Lakers were able to move Clarkson without giving up a pick is a clear win.
Having the extra $12.5 million in cap space this summer will come in handy even without signing a max free agent (or two). The Lakers can take advantage of the limited cap space available in free agency to make lucrative one-year deals to players, as they did last summer with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, to remain competitive in the interim.
Moving Nance wasn't so obvious a decision, but getting the first-round pick back from Cleveland softens the blow. Nance for the pick would have been a reasonable deal, and probably a win for the Lakers because they'll get up to four years of cost control as compared to the year-plus remaining on Nance's rookie contract.
Nance became a tougher fit in the Lakers' 2019 plan because his cap hit would balloon from his $2.3 million 2018-19 salary to $6.8 million as a restricted free agent. By contrast, the Cavaliers' pick will have a salary somewhere in the range of $2 million in 2019-20.
The Lakers do take on an "island of misfit toys" look the rest of the season. Thomas, who grew up a Lakers fan (one story of the origin of his name has to do with his father losing a bet on the Lakers beating Isiah Thomas' Detroit Pistons in the 1989 NBA Finals), has long desired to play in L.A. But this probably wasn't exactly the circumstances he had in mind.
How Thomas' ball-dominant style will fit with the developing talents of Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram is difficult to see. Yet Shelburne reported the Lakers plan to keep Thomas and play him heavy minutes the remainder of the season.
The other heartwarming note here is that Frye is reunited with Lakers coach Luke Walton, his teammate for two seasons at Arizona.
Of course this is all assuming that we get the max free agents we want. I’m excited but cautiously optimistic. July can’t come soon enough...
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We have a go to guy in the 4th .....haven’t seen him play all season is he playing as good as he was in Boston
