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

[DLF]

Lol

This was a western conference finals team with lebron playing with one foot.

Christie could get better.
Ham could get better.
Reeves can even get better.

 

[MVP]

Donte Divencenzo is where he lost the argument, but annoying as he is the take is spot on. There will have to be internal improvements from the young guys for it to be an improvement over where we ended last season.

 

[lovehateself]

Someone has to fill in the anti-laker role now that they’ve cleared house

 

[tonelow]

Someone has to fill in the anti-laker role now that they’ve cleared house

He’s had that role for a minute. Probably why they kept him.

 

[DLF]

I feel like I’m in the twilight zone here.

You make the moves you have access too.

Sure, would the team have been markedly better if they turned D’lo into Devin Booker. Rui into Mikal Bridges? Absolutely.

Reaves
Booker
Bridges
Lebron
AD

With Jokic off the bench


woulda been much better than what we did now. But we didn’t have that as a pathway.

Shroder - too expensive
Brown- too expensive
Lopez- too expensive
Donte wanted to go to NY and had been rumored there for weeks.
Landale- too expensive.


Let’s see who signed for 12 mill or less:

Richardson
Walker
Gordon
Vincent
Joseph
Watanabe
Metu
Okogie
Brown jr
Mcdaniels
Alexander Walker
Shake Milton
Dennis Smith Jr
Plumlee
Eubanks
Craig


So…yea. Who you want from that list? Pick 2 or 1 for 11 mill. (Minny split their MLE for brown jr, Milton, naw). Is that better than Vincent?

Glad we made lateral moves

We were a top 3 type roster last year.

Uhhh winning.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

White Dante was the final championship piece we needed


Gabe Vincent was way better and more important than him in the playoffs.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

It's a top 4 team easy but it's not a clear contender. Rebounding was a big weakness and everybody they added is a worse rebounder than who they replaced. If Gabe and Christie are what they should be then I'm confident they'd beat Denver. Gabe/Reaves/Rui/Bron/AD should be tough in the playoffs but is it better than what PHX/BOS/MIL can do? We'll see

 

[tay1]

We have to wait and see. Milwaukee doesn’t scare me as much anymore.

 

[DLF]

Don’t get me wrong. I’m greedy. I can dream about better players but that’s more just bc I’m bored

Would I like Beasley for vet min over reddish yes. Eric Gordon. Yes. Plumlee over Jackson hayes. Sure. Jordan Hawkins over jhs. Sure.

 

[moonman818]

Continuity matters.

The fact that these guys get to play a full season, and have a real training camp is gonna make them better.

 

[moonman818]

Also, Reaves might take that next step playing in FIBA this summer.

 

[sohi 23]

Given the available moves, the Lakers front office did as well as possible.

They are armed with good/tradeable contracts and young players, the championship piece trade will need to be made during the deadline.

 

[pdino]

there wasn't much Lakers can do with mid-level exception, bi-annual exception, and some veteran minimums.. Have to hope that the team can gel better with more time, that the young guys naturally get a little better, Bron is a bit healthier. Denver lost their 6th and 7th man in Bruce Brown and Jeff Green, and only have Braun to help their depth as of now. I thought Phoenix did as well as you can do with veteran minimum signings, wish we got a couple of their guys

 

[sohi 23]

If I’m Lebron, I tell dame to chill for another 6 months.

Wait for the Lakers package with AR headlining
We got the salary filler

AR’s contract is better than anything Miami has to offer.

They can send us Nurkic contract back. We can still get Beasley for more salary filler since we have his bird rights.

 

[DLF]

If I’m Lebron, I tell dame to chill for another 6 months.

Wait for the Lakers package with AR headlining
We got the salary filler

AR’s contract is better than anything Miami has to offer.

They can send us Nurkic contract back. We can still get Beasley for more salary filler since we have his bird rights.

Here you go:

 

[mrdieselfuel09]

Dante wasn’t coming to the Lakers. Dude was set to be a Knick with his butt buddies

 

[pmatic]

 

[tay1]

Our team is nice. It’s more complete. We’re just missing a dependable shooter.

 

[DLF]

I don’t like that analysts like our off-season so much. They are never right.

 

[DLF]

One of the hindsight mistakes for lakers was trading for mo Bamba instead of Plumlee.

 

[MVP]

What these moves have done more than anything is get a multitude of tradable contracts for if another disabled star becomes available without having to sacrifice all of their depth as well, which I think will probably end up being the route that's needed to go to true contender status.

 

[pmatic]

Not sure about star (because of the lack of draft picks), but maybe an above average starter talent.

 

[geno90221]

Plumlee agrees to 1-year, $5M deal with Clippers

Mason Plumlee has agreed to a one-year, $5 million deal to return to the LA Clippers despite receiving larger financial offers elsewhere.

www.espn.com

 

[noblekane]

welp Brosizzlew30.23 i guess plumlee is gonna have to build on his great legacy with the clippers

 

[lovehateself]

Welp

Meyers Leonard signing tomorrow would be poetic