**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

[lawdog1]

^^^ I can't stand Colin Cowherd, but I can't disagree with his take on LeBron. The Lakers don't give off the vibe of a cohesive team at all. Really does feel like LeBron and everyone else.

To use an old, kind of obscure TV reference, LeBron is the Jack Sheppard of the Lakers - he walks among them, but he is not one of them.

 

[HOU$TON]

Sidenote this Da Baby album harder than Tit's for sure.

 

[Cashflow]

 

[don ramon]

Bogut was washed like 4 years ago

teams really gotta go outside of the country when so many players with potential are stuck in the g league?

 

[shotsrangout]

teams really gotta go outside of the country when so many players with potential are stuck in the g league?

Especially for someone who hasn’t been decent since like 2015.

 

[lynchpin33]

Grizzlies have the weirdest roster in the league. Bruno Caboclo is starting. Joakim is producing. Strange collection of dudes.

#Analytics
Somewhere Lionel Hollins is shaking his head

^^^ I can't stand Colin Cowherd, but I can't disagree with his take on LeBron. The Lakers don't give off the vibe of a cohesive team at all. Really does feel like LeBron and everyone else.

To use an old, kind of obscure TV reference, LeBron is the Jack Sheppard of the Lakers - he walks among them, but he is not one of them.

Always had this thought that when Bron signed with the Lakers, several members of the team contacted Jordan Clarkson and asked what was up with him. Pretty sure those text messages now are like -- told ya, or man you told me this this type of stuff would happen.

 

[MajinZuub]

teams really gotta go outside of the country when so many players with potential are stuck in the g league?

I kind of get it. Throwing someone into the fire of a championship chase this late in the season might not be best for a young prospect

 

[HIM]

If we beat the Lakers tomorrow, itms officially over right? That’s gotta be a must win for them. I will loan ALA my avy tomorrow. We are all Clipper fans. The Genuine Young Core. Let’s get it.

 

[equality]

Laker fans going to start saying they need Smush Parker back

 

[pums]

24K Magic!!!

 

[HIM]

 

[Air Pope]

That’s different

 

[drewsone]

Lmao
Last year Colin was slurping Bron almost as bad as Nick Wright

My oh my how things change

 

[keko jones]

If the playoff button actually activates, the Lakers can still make the playoffs, but Lebron needs to activate the FT button as well.

 

[kdawg]

I doubt LBJ's legacy takes a big enough hit to where it knocks him off of the Mt. Rushmore of basketball, (The gatekeepers of this **** have already cemented him as probably top 3 ever. 2016 lives forever)

But the optics of LBJ coming out west and immediately not making the playoffs are bad. The bottom of the west is actually softer than what a lot of people thought it would be too. Like I love my Clips, but the LBJ led Lakers are getting smoked by them in a race for 8 right now which makes no sense considering one team starts LBJ...and the other team starts SGA/Headick/Beverley/Gallo/Zubac

It's just a bad look optically but I find what the Lakers are going to do this summer fascinating

His legacy is definitely tarnished - he’ll not fall out of the top 10 but I think this season has eliminated him from the GOAT talk unless he does something amazing in the next few years.

 

[nflowshoe]

Cats still riding out this Lakers playoff scenarios in a couple of weeks they could be 30-40 and people will still be like “ if lakers go on a 12 game winning streak and kings/clippers lose out lakers still could make it”

 

[frshstunna]

Bron a fraud man. Who I owe money to?

Cash app me mane...tried to tell u in the summer

 

[nflowshoe]

His legacy is definitely tarnished - he’ll not fall out of the top 10 but I think this season has eliminated him from the GOAT talk unless he does something amazing in the next few years.

No matter what happens with the lakers if Lebron recovered from the Mavs finals he definitely can recover from missing the playoffs.

 

[drewsone]

Def a bad look his first year and no playoffs


But like y’all said the excuses is already built in

Le18missedGames

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Yikes @ the Hawks and Bulls having to play each other again at 3:30 today

 

[storm2006]

For me it’s not so much the losing as it is the lack of effort, leadership and accountability from Bron, all topped off with his celebratory IG posts, broken promises about this playoff mode and generally poor demeanor.

 

[jjs07]

For me it’s not so much the losing as it is the lack of effort, leadership and accountability from Bron, all topped off with his celebratory IG posts, broken promises about this playoff mode and generally poor demeanor.

I think this is fair take.

To me, he's still the greatest I've seen (talent-wise,) but this season is leaving a poor taste in a lot of folks' mouths. Gonna be something when the Lakers don't end up with what they want during the FA period and the team is pretty much an alienated group of younger players, and an obviously older and SHARPLY declining Lebron.

All that being said, there were a number of folks who saw this coming. They all knew that this move to LA was for Lebron the businessman, not Lebron the basketball player.

 

[AIR J XIII]

Lmao
Last year Colin was slurping Bron almost as bad as Nick Wright

To be fair, Colin has gone on record that he roots for chaos in sports, because it’s good for business. So his takes are going to change based on that.

No matter what happens with the lakers if Lebron recovered from the Mavs finals he definitely can recover from missing the playoffs.

He recovered from the 2011 meltdown? When?

 

[D StaXX]

To be fair, Colin has gone on record that he roots for chaos in sports, because it’s good for business. So his takes are going to change based on that.


He recovered from the 2011 meltdown? When?

2016.

 

[P C H]

Portland's good. They're convincing me this year. First post LMA team that I think is actually "Legit"