**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[darthska]

'Dammit Westbrook!'
'We gonna get Kyrie!'
'Ayton leaving? We can get Chris Paul!'
'Spyda 'bout to pull up, watch!'
'Dammit, Westbrook?'

-foe

 

[pmatic]

 

[DLF]

None of these trades excites me to wanna give up both picks.

I’d also like to see how lebron plays to start the season. One of these years he’s gonna decline hard. He possibly did last year. Injured easily last two years and puts up tons of empty stats. Zero defense. He’s still good by nba standards but not by “I can carry you to a title” status. Without that Lebrun, we ain’t winning anything anyways

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

None of these trades excites me to wanna give up both picks.

I’d also like to see how lebron plays to start the season. One of these years he’s gonna decline hard. He possibly did last year. Injured easily last two years and puts up tons of empty stats. Zero defense. He’s still good by nba standards but not by “I can carry you to a title” status. Without that Lebrun, we ain’t winning anything anyways

Which is exactly why the Lakers need another star caliber player to take the load off Lebron. It was supposed to be Westbrook. Looks like he will get one more chance to right the ship

 

[noblekane]

westbrook aint gonna do **** this year but turn the ball over and throw up air balls

he just dont work with ad and lebron on the court and has too much of an ego to come off the bench

 

[DLF]

If one pick and seconds. It would work. Benefit for jazz? Save money and the one pick when lakers suck. Russ expiring and save on 14 mill of Conley next year and 12 of Clarkson.

 

[had pants]

 

[Lizakers]

BOS will definitely get Bogey for future cash considerations

 

[DLF]

Gonna feel so good when indy is forced to trade Turner in February for a 2nd rounder to a random team

 

[pmatic]

 

[tupac003]

I would take JC back though...

We don't have a max slot anyway...

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Preserve cap space for what

 

[pmatic]

Preserve cap space for what

SO THEY CAN PROMOTE A NEW TEAM TO THE FANBASE!

 

[DLF]

The sad part is that the lakers, even with cap space next summer will ONLY be looking to sign 1 or 2 year deals bc they will want everything to expire with Lebron and AD. Meaning nobody will come here anyways under those terms

 

[lovehateself]

im good on the jazz deal if it costs us multiple picks , 1st or 2nd round picks

run it byke,
bench rust by christmas
see whats out there around the trade deadline
sit rust and then let him walk

 

[MVP]

Bojan is a gamer for sure and Clarkson is buckets would be good additions but not for what they're going to ask.

 

[pmatic]

Saving cap space to sign Klutch clients and/or former Lakers because Pelinka has no connections >>>

 

[DLF]

Saving cap space to sign Klutch clients and/or former Lakers because Pelinka has no connections >>>

The only good thing about having cap space is the game we can play on this thread JUNE 30 next year.

We can make a spreadsheet of all KLUTCH free agents and we can all guess who we will sign. We can create a pool and take bets.

 

[MVP]

Clarkson could be flipped pretty easily next summer if they're looking to keep max cap space. They flipped THT and he was ***.

 

[DLF]

Clarkson could be flipped pretty easily next summer if they're looking to keep max cap space. They flipped THT and he was ***.

Player option for Clarkson. If he does well he will opt out. If he sucks (he won’t) he will opt in and can trade probably easily

 

[DLF]

I usually come in here and complain after trades

If a Russ trde happens I will know that the lakers thought long and hard about the trade (since it’s taking 3+ months to happen) and will just accept it and move on.

 

[Lizakers]

Maybe Myles and Lakers have mutual interest for next summer so Rob is like why give up picks for him now when I can sign him as a FA next summer

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Myles turner next summer: "Lakers didn't grab me"

 

[pmatic]

Lakers discussion starts at 42:30.

 

[pmatic]

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