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"Rob Pelinka Tried to Warn Y'all": Lakers Fans Troll Rockets as Frustration on Dorian Finney-Smith's

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by cdrive, Nov 17, 2025.

  1. cdrive

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    "Rob Pelinka Tried to Warn Y'all": Lakers Fans Troll Rockets as Frustration on Dorian Finney-Smith's Absence Boils Over



    https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketb...ey-smith-s-absence-boils-over#key2=affiliatex



    Rumor is Rob Pelinka went to teams and told tried to tank DFS's value by talking smack about his knee. He's been out since surgery on his ankle back in June. There is still no timetable on when he will get back, which is weird, and tracks with out the Rocket's organization has a history of not being transparent with Rockets fans about injured players.

    So is it fair now to talk about the rumor of Pelinka saying DFS's knee is cooked?

    We see of DFS doing drills in Rocket's video clips of practice. I don't see him at games. Or Rockets broadcast does an excellent job of hiding him during games as if he made them sign a contract to never film him at games.

    Barely squeezing by Orlando without Suggs and Banchero last night was concerning now with Tari out for 6 weeks. (6 weeks according to the Rockets organization who has a terrible track record of giving accurate estimates of injury recovery times). So when are we going to see Dorian?


     
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    LOL ... When we do get him on the floor it will be like we added a VALUABLE player for nothing to an already stacked team!! Faker Fans are fakey!!;)

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  3. Houston77

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    Meh. They’ve quieted a bit now that LaRavia has come back to Earth.
     
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    When though is the point and concern. And what's with the secrecy. $53 million dollars is not nothing with FVV out and in need of a PG. Laker fans are dicks and they're doing great without DFS and with DFS's replacement , but their trolling wouldn't have so much sting if we knew more about DFS.
     
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    Bronny James is in the Starting Lineup scoring 0 Points.
     
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    Yes $53 mill is not pocket change, but just because we haven't heard any news doesn't necessarily mean that bad news is forthcoming. Also, you've sort of single handedly figured out where the sting is coming from... TROLLS! DFS chose the Rockets over them and they are salty!

    I kind of see this in reverse actually, the trolling actually means they are sour for being left at the alter!! :D


    Go Rockets!!!
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    A GM reportedly trying to tank their free agent's value over medical concerns, and their fans gloating about it, is pretty classless. DFS played pretty well for them and caused no drama while there. If you don't want to re-sign him then move on. This would be like Rockets fans gloating over Suns fans about Jalen Green's hamstring injury, which I certainly hope no one is doing.
     
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    Only the 1st two seasons are guaranteed. So it's really a $26M/2 year contract.
     
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    Only the first 2 years are guaranteed at $13m per season - I don't think there are that many great PG options at that price point but I don't doubt that if the Rockets wanted to move Finney Smith they probably could.
     
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    Everyone hates the fakers after they conspired with the league to fleece the mavs of Luka.
    i’m no fan of DFW but that was bs.

    Basketball reasons
     
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    1st off, there’s no major frustration about DFS…he barely gets talked about, and he’s a middling role player at best

    I often forget he’s even on the team

    2nd, why are we concerned with Lakers fans??
     
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    You are just stirring the pot like a troll here. Rest assured Pelinka wasn't trying to help out other teams by warning them of a DFS knee injury - that was solely in the Laker's best interest. Ime also mentioned roughly a week ago that DFS is getting non contact work in and that they are ramping up activities to see how his ankle responds to increased load. Is it later than we were expecting? Yes. Do we have a clear timeline? Not yet necessarily...but it is the type of update/progress you would expect on a guy recovering from offseason ankle surgery.
     
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    Lakers fan isn't doing a very good job of trolling (fyi).
     
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    I don't listen to Lakers or GSW fans because most of them aren't very knowledgeable, having spent so many years heavily benefiting from the league moving heaven and earth to put a thumb on the scale in their favor.

    I wonder what the owner of the Knicks did to anger the league office at some point. They're the biggest market team and yet no one is maneuvering to gift them with generational talents in exchange for busted fading stars. They actually had to build their current team the hard way.
     
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    Uh, LAKERS? That's all you need to know.

    Ever seen the Lakers at Toyota Center? 30% of the crowd = Lakers fans, and, among them, there's always more than a few dudes who you wish would get a beatdown on the way to their cars after the game.
     
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    OP, if you haven't seen him at games, you aren't looking close enough. He was on the bench against the Magic. I'm not going to bother looking at videos of the other home games.

    You're also pretty dumb if you think Pelinka was trying to help other teams by planting doubts about DFS. Just take about 5 seconds to think about it.
     
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    Good thing I'm not pretty dumb since that's not at all what I thought or what I remotely insinuated. Sort of projecting with a self own there. Don't appreciate the hostility.
     
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    Sorry Adam didn’t just send us Luka because we suck
     
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    I'm sorry you took this as hostile. I did not mean it that way. My sincere apology.

    My point was the only reason for Pelinka to plant doubts about DFS would be to make it more difficult for him to leave the Lakers. He was not "warning" anybody.
     
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    MY FRUSTRATIONS ON DFS’S ABSENCE ARE BOILING OVER!!!

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    Im guessing this is either an Indian/Chinese or AI article
     
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