If they add a Kemba or another elite or even solid guard....Rocket fans may be in trouble. I'm just glad it's not GS
This trade has the potential to become one of the worst trade of all time- a repeat of Billy King's Brooklyn. Still waiting to see clarifications on the pick protections.
"In addition, the language in the deal concerning the future first-round picks includes the possibility of a pick swap that could make the trade even more advantageous to the Pelicans, league sources said." The Lakers' won't be able to improve, correct or add to their roster with a first round pick for the rest of Lebron's carreer. The margin of error is extremely small especially with such injury prone players.
LeBron has about 2 or 3 more years of being elite. Could be wrong but the game is just so physical and these kids coming in can ball
Yup, they can add another player to go with LeBron, Davis and Kuzma.... that could be Butler or Leonard or KD or Kyrie or someone else. Either way they will have 3 stars plus Kuzma... having a completely incompetent front office at the end didn’t matter much.
Sounds like they are getting the chance to swap some future picks with the Lakers ones, at some point Lebron will age and for all we know there's no guarantee they will be so good after he's done.
The 3 picks on themselves are a sunk cost but the problem is that due to the Stepien rule they won't be able to use them as assets for the rest of Lebron's contending years to fix their roster. One single bad contract and they will have no means to get out of it. A new built team like this, it is a given that it will need many January trades to fix some holes but there is only Kuzma as an asset to use.
AD is anything, but... He almost single-handedly decimated the Trailblazers in the playoffs, while the Dubs were having their struggles with him. I'm not sure, if they win a championship , but I trust AD/Kuz/LBJ with pretty much anyone else more than say the Trailblazers, Nuggets, or OKC. I cannot picture any of these 3 in the NBA Finals. If the Lakers don't pan out or fall early, due to injuries or upset. I like our chances without any significant. Things cannot get better unless KD leaves for NYC.
. Might as well say rest of the NBA too. Lakers just became the most interesting team to watch in the league.
This was most obvious move of summer. Part 2 is kawhi goimg to clippers? *disclaimer does this put lakers in running for kawhi?* We all knew lebron couldnt do it by self and now they can go for it as expected with gsw taking a step back. The more interesting news to me is presumably lakers now have davis for rest of career relatively young.. Lakers were bad for minute there. Rich get richer i wonder how you feel if you are a sacramento or an orlando or Charlotte or in this case new orleans .You suck perpetually only to serve as a farm team feeder for lakers and similar.
For who the Lakers lol. The finna win a chip...how is that bad. I'm lost with some of these takes. We havent won in 25 years so having picks n young guys dont mean anything
Ohhhh I can’t wait to see Shannon Sharpe on Monday Dudes gonna be drinking straight henny and smoking milds on tv
Na Lakers been bad for a long time now. I think they paid the price. There brand took a hit..a big one
It is what it is. As much as I hate it, it does look like people like stars and superteams. From a financial perspective, it may not be all that bad for small teams to send their talent to big markets to get overall ratings up for the league. Once ratings are up, you get big TV deals which props up the value of the small market teams. Sucks for fans but it works for owners.