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**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins
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Any pics of upcoming Nike Laker gear out yet??
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Been waiting for this too.
Guess they have to wait till the season is officially over.
Maybe we'll see some stuff around the draft?
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Adidas doesn't officially end until the Finals are over so we probably won't see anything until then.
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Cant wait man.
Haven't bought any NBA gear or memorabilia since Adidas took over.
Trash man.
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I got some stuff on sale but yeah they've been awful.
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Here's the draft hat by New Era, who took over the hat contract from adidas:
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Maaannn if that hat was black [emoji]128293[/emoji][emoji]128293[/emoji]
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How do you guys feel about Jerry West becoming a Clipper??
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Love been on fire this post season
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Damn that hat is dope
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Won't happen
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Don't honestly care at all. We're the ones who ran him out of town.
Wish Jerry the best.
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I can see the Nets or Bobcats offering him 4 years/$75 mill
. We'll see where things go with him next year. If his defense and 3-pt shooting improve he could turn into a real force. I'd trade at the trade deadline for a mid-first rounder next year if possible.
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Random rant: It boils my blood that we're gonna be forced to give up assets to unload bad contracts from last year. I can see a contract being toxic 3 or 4 years down the line but the Mozgov and Deng contracts were laughably bad at their signings. I would've fired Mitch on the spot for even proposing those contracts. Now we have $136 tied up in players that don't help us at all. Do you guys think that those were desperation signings in an attend for Mitch to try and save his job?
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Not Mitch, Jim
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Mitch was the GM
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I don't think Jeanie knew about those deals until after the fact
That was a main problem, no visibility between the basketball ops side and business side
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Jim is an owner
Jim's job was on the line, no one knew Mitch would be fired along with him
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Yea they did. Mitch hitched his wagon to Jim. Those deals were the final nail in the coffin.
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Obviously, Jim was in charge of all basketball operations. Mitch was forced to work with him.
It was a known fact Jim's job was on the line, not Mitch.
Mitch had been with the Lakers for 36 years, and everyone knew his time would be coming to an end with Jim? Stop
Go read Kevin Ding's article on Bleacher Report.
These desperation signings were obviously Jim.
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No need to rehash what happened. Hell I predicted it the moment they signed those deals. Jeanie said she waited to late and should have done it last year. I doubt it's revisionist history, she was planning this regime change for a minute.
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