Lonzo yeah but no way I wouldn't trade Ingram unless it for someone like Kawhi. Dude has star written all over him.
True. I also forgot Kupchak's running the show in Charlotte. I doubt he'll want to do the Lakers any favors.
I agree about the East, but i think they'll be able to build a pretty good roster, something like this: Noel Lebron/Kuzma Ingram George/Hart Kemba/Knight/Collison/Dragic/Beverley/Bledsoe/Rondo A veteran here and there...to me that's good enough to compete with anyone.
I agree, they’ll be a good team...good enough to be 3rd in the West people on here keep downplaying them and looking like straight up homers talking about the likes of Utah and New Orleans would sweep them in a playoff series...
Huh so you are the same person from that Lakers forum that said LeBron and Paul George are going to the Lakers over a year ago.
How will George start as SG all season? Neither he or Ingram are real SG. Plus Ingram and Noel are bad players and would be two of the weakest starters in any western playoff team.
Yep, also cause that kind of scenario still leaves them with different assets...just wait if the Spurs don't trade Kawhi till the deadline, then we'll see where he ends up...
I don't really see Paul George playing the 2 as a problem tbh. Agree to disagree with Noel and Ingram, i don't think they're that good (at least yet for Ingram), but they would be ok/good enough until they eventually get better or they get someone better. And i mean, if somehow that's not working they would still be able to start Kuzma at the 4 or Hart at the 2...
I think if Lebron goes there all these young players will be shipped off in the span of the most 12 months except the extremely cheap ones. Lebron won't tolerate playing with such bad players as Lonzo, and Ingram. Unless we think that now Lebron will be a normal player withot any saying in managing? I will have to see this to believe it first.
The "DaDakotas" of the "Lakers Forums" will be throwing up their hands that they are going to be tossing those young players.
This. LeBron James knows over the next 12 months that players (elite ones), will come to play with him via trade or free agency. He also knows, that while the Lakers have not done the best job collecting assets, they have enough to get him the players needed. Paul George will go to the Lakers..... sooner or later the Spurs will have to trade Leonard and the Lakers can offer the most simply because Leonard is sabotaging his trade value. He is a rental for everyone except the Lakers. The Lakers have young players to send out for Leonard, and still enough left over to trade for someone like Kimba Walker. That doesn't even count the ring chasers. Is the Lakers team as good as the Rockets + LeBron? No, but it doesn't seem like James wants to go anywhere but where his family wants to go and that is and has been LA. It all comes down to whether the Lakers (Buss and Magic) will do what LeBron wants done. Magic said before that the Lakers are not dealing their young players, I don't buy that for a second...... If LeBron is coming, and George/Leonard are coming; the Lakers will ride that group for the next 4-5 years and then reload again.
Unfortunately there are a number of place holder centers the Lakers can add for relatively cheap that will be sufficient......... Howard, O'Quinn, Amir Johnson and many others are likely to be out there.
I agree with pessimism, but what does "something would have leaked" mean? Clutch got Morey to leak trade attempts to land picks that would be the hidden story of the trade. The Gordon stuff doesn't count as a leak?
LBJ would be a perfect foil for PG and KL both IMO. Lebron would absorb and deflect all the attention neither of the other two demand, or want. That is just sayin', not predicting that as a Bigly-Three.
I meant it in terms of other teams who would specifically be involved in the hypothetical LeBron transaction. In other words, a third team that would likely be taking Anderson, the team Houston would subsequently flip the picks they got for Gordon to (Cleveland?), etc. That response was a great tremendous by Dave, but I took what Morey said as more forward-looking — such as the Kyle Lowry trade in July 2012 for a pick, which they didn't end up flipping until the Harden trade in late October. No doubt the Rockets are looking to build their asset stockpile, but I haven't seen any indications that there's an actual star acquisition in the near future. IMO, if the unlikely happens and a LeBron deal happens by Friday, we'd start hearing birdies by Wednesday considering the logistics involved.
I don't deny that. I just don't think that CP3 is keen on playing with PG or KL. CP3 does want to play with Lebron though. That is why I believe Woj, when he says CP3 is trying his best to recruit Lebron to Houston. I know that is a near impossibility.
