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Lonnie is built for garbage time 
**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins
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Give Lonnie some playing time next game with DLo out.
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Can we buyout Davon Reed and make him go to the clippers
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What a luxury to have the likes of Lonnie and Rui playing garbage time.
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Lamelo ball security for lakers now?
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finally
A real team. With real nba players
A real team. With real nba players
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Grizz lost
Pels lost
Thunder lost
Blazers lost
We won
We got greedy tonight
Pels lost
Thunder lost
Blazers lost
We won
We got greedy tonight
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It’s refreshing to have a team full of depth. The 3 star team experiment is dead. And we don’t need to revisit it again.
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Fixed.
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The way I feel about Beasley coming to the Lakers is much like how I felt when the Lakers traded Eddie and Elden to get Glen Rice and his much needed 3 point shooting
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Do feel for Lonnie as he was having a career year.
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Lakers 2 games back of 8.
4 games back of 5.
4.5 games back of 4.
4 games back of 5.
4.5 games back of 4.
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Both AD and Bron had a bad night and still won. Love this new team! 
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Alright since the game was over, I was able to quickly do what I saw for offseason stuff.
My guess is the Lakers will look good the rest of the way. How far they go, I’m unsure. But there’s too much talent for them to go .500 or under the rest of the way.
Combine the cost it would take to get Kyrie (having to let quality guys walk to stay under hard cap, and having to trade assets that they cannot replace. It likely does not happen).
My guess, the top end of the rotation for 2023-24
DLo 4 year/ $110-125mil
Beasley $16.5mil
Vando $4.6mil
LeBron $46.9mil
AD $40.6mil
From there, you want to get 6-7 guys, whether it’s
1. A new starting 2 and 3 with LBJ at the 4, and 3 guys in the regular rotation off the bench, and 2 end of the bench depth guys.
2. Or 5 guys for the bench and 2 end of the bench depth pieces.
Here’s where it gets interesting:
-Mo Bamba has $10.3mil non-guaranteed. They will pick it up.
-Reaves is a RFA with early bird rights. Let’s say $9-12mil.
-Rui is a RFA with a QO at $8.496mil. Let’s say $10mil
Lakers own the non-bird rights for Lonnie. They could re-sign him for 120% of his current salary, which is $7.7mil. Lonnie may want to go to another team for a bigger role. Certainly possible. But the Lakers could offer him $7.7mil, and he may take it if it blows other offers out of the water.
They also have Davon Reed for $2mil
Max Christie for $1.719mil
Where they likely lose out if Troy Brown Jr., who they could retain, but only if he’s under $2.2mil (I doubt it). Weyen Gabriel if he’s under $2.2mil, and Schroder if he’s under $2.2mil. Weyen they could probably retain (no reason), but Troy and Dennis will get more than that.
Lakers also have the ability to add through whatever exception they have, the 2023-1st and 2023-2nd, and vet minimums.
Here’s where I’m going. Lakers have 5 spots guaranteed in DLo, Beasley, LeBron, Vando & AD.
And could have $40mil in salaries to trade out come January. There's an ability to keep 80% of a pretty good depth team, and add to it through the draft and exception. Then could do things to still make a big move next year without sacrificing the top half of the rotation.
My guess is the Lakers will look good the rest of the way. How far they go, I’m unsure. But there’s too much talent for them to go .500 or under the rest of the way.
Combine the cost it would take to get Kyrie (having to let quality guys walk to stay under hard cap, and having to trade assets that they cannot replace. It likely does not happen).
My guess, the top end of the rotation for 2023-24
DLo 4 year/ $110-125mil
Beasley $16.5mil
Vando $4.6mil
LeBron $46.9mil
AD $40.6mil
From there, you want to get 6-7 guys, whether it’s
1. A new starting 2 and 3 with LBJ at the 4, and 3 guys in the regular rotation off the bench, and 2 end of the bench depth guys.
2. Or 5 guys for the bench and 2 end of the bench depth pieces.
Here’s where it gets interesting:
-Mo Bamba has $10.3mil non-guaranteed. They will pick it up.
-Reaves is a RFA with early bird rights. Let’s say $9-12mil.
-Rui is a RFA with a QO at $8.496mil. Let’s say $10mil
Lakers own the non-bird rights for Lonnie. They could re-sign him for 120% of his current salary, which is $7.7mil. Lonnie may want to go to another team for a bigger role. Certainly possible. But the Lakers could offer him $7.7mil, and he may take it if it blows other offers out of the water.
They also have Davon Reed for $2mil
Max Christie for $1.719mil
Where they likely lose out if Troy Brown Jr., who they could retain, but only if he’s under $2.2mil (I doubt it). Weyen Gabriel if he’s under $2.2mil, and Schroder if he’s under $2.2mil. Weyen they could probably retain (no reason), but Troy and Dennis will get more than that.
Lakers also have the ability to add through whatever exception they have, the 2023-1st and 2023-2nd, and vet minimums.
Here’s where I’m going. Lakers have 5 spots guaranteed in DLo, Beasley, LeBron, Vando & AD.
And could have $40mil in salaries to trade out come January. There's an ability to keep 80% of a pretty good depth team, and add to it through the draft and exception. Then could do things to still make a big move next year without sacrificing the top half of the rotation.
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Gooood timeess
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#SuitTalk
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One real shooter man and it helps so much
Beas is awesome and he’s also like top 10 in 3pm for the season
Also reaves needs more pt
Winning player lol
Hope Dlo okay tho
Beas is awesome and he’s also like top 10 in 3pm for the season
Also reaves needs more pt
Winning player lol
Hope Dlo okay tho
