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The 3+1 contract gives the Lakers the flexibility to wait this out. Build the team slow, let BI/Kuzma/Lonzo develop. Not sell the farm for Kawhi (but still obviously add him if possible, whether in trade or otherwise).

LeBron Jr. is starting his first (of 4 obviously) years in high school in LA this year.

Makes a lot of sense.
 
uconnbaseball said:
If LeBron wanted to guarantee himself a championship over the next 4 years, he would have signed with Houston, Philly, Denver, or (egad) Utah. Sadly, a team like the Jazz just isn't good enough to hold his gigantic ego.
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I've seen Denver mentioned a couple times in the last 72 hours and I don't understand why. That team isn't even close to sniffing a title with LeBron.
 
auror said:
The 3+1 contract gives the Lakers the flexibility to wait this out. Build the team slow, let BI/Kuzma/Lonzo develop. Not sell the farm for Kawhi (but still obviously add him if possible, whether in trade or otherwise).
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The only issue is that GSW likely isn't breaking up over the next four years. Maybe they'll lose Draymond. But I think LeBron is fine with it; winning clearly isn't a top priority anymore and that's fine.
 
auror said:
The 3+1 contract gives the Lakers the flexibility to wait this out. Build the team slow, let BI/Kuzma/Lonzo develop. Not sell the farm for Kawhi (but still obviously add him if possible, whether in trade or otherwise).

LeBron Jr. is starting his first (of 4 obviously) years in high school in LA this year.

Makes a lot of sense.
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Bronny Jr. Is going into 8th grade
 
Lefty2one said:
I've seen Denver mentioned a couple times in the last 72 hours and I don't understand why. That team isn't even close to sniffing a title with LeBron.
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Murray + Jokic + Harris + Barton is much, much better than the Lakers young core. Denver could easily compete for a championship with LeBron. That team won 46 games last year despite their injuries and Jokic is a match-up nightmare for GS.

The Lakers cannot without another star, although they will probably get one. They should have looked at Capela...
 
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superjohn said:
My bad, Philly doesn't totally stink but they aren't contenders. The rest of the East really stinks though.
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The Jazz could miss the playoffs in the West and would be the 3 seed in the East.
 
navery12 said:
Aaron Gordon at $84M was the best signing of the day, that's a steal
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You can like Aaron Gordon and think that $21 million a year was a bad deal for Orlando. He is a 17 ppg swing forward on a bad team and all his shooting percentage numbers and deep stats are just OK. He will probably get better, but he has been in the NBA for 4 years, so there is a lot of data to work with on him. He also had injury issues.

$64 million for 4 years would have been reasonable. $84 is in the ballpark of a player like the Greek Freak, which is ridiculous, especially in a year like this one where almost no one has cap space. Orlando cut a bad deal.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Sucks for the Spurs, but maybe they should have been a bit more proactive handling a guy who has been huge for them, never needed much in the way of coddling, and is easily a top 5 player in the league.
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Can you really blame the Spurs or Spurs fans, though? Kawhi ghosted the Spurs all year to form a super team in his hometown with LeBron. The team needed him to step up and help them and he didn’t. Instead, he decided to doctor shop for someone willing to say that his injury was bad enough to be able to play a “will he or won’t he” game with the team for an entire season. He eventually found his man in the Sixers’ former chief medical officer who assisted in the procedure that kept Ben Simmons out for a year on an injury that was only supposed to take 8-10 weeks to recover.

It’s entirely in Kawhi’s and his handlers’ best interest to make the Spurs look as bad as possible. I mean the worst and most dramatic thing they could come up with as a rationale for not being able to forgive the organization was Tony Parker comparing his injury to Kawhi’s. His decision doesn’t seem to be solely driven by his view of the Spurs or how they handled things, because otherwise he wouldn’t be telling every team that he’s going to go to the Lakers anyway during free agency next year.
 
Lefty2one said:
The only issue is that GSW likely isn't breaking up over the next four years. Maybe they'll lose Draymond. But I think LeBron is fine with it; winning clearly isn't a top priority anymore and that's fine.
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Depends how much they are going to want to pay into the tax. Draymond and Klay Thompson are going to be looking for more money for sure and everyone eventually reaches the point of no return when it comes to signing cap friendly deals.
 
The idea that winning isn't a top priority for Lebron anymore is hilarious. He just signed with the best franchise in the sport who is loaded with really good young wings and they are pretty much guaranteed to get Kawhi next year and a very good chance they get another top free agent.
 
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bballgrda said:
Where did you read this?
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Either CBS or ESPN. Don't remember which. The writer was using it to make an argument that he may stay in Cleveland. Given the weekend's events, I think it is a lot less likely that he considers going into politics from Los Angeles.
 
So last year the Lakers finished 35 and 47 and 11th in the West.
How many Wins does LeBron give you? Let's be conservative here. You know, in a "Make the Lakers Great Again" way. 12 Wins? Would you buy 13 wins?
If so, the Lakers are tied for 4th. If LeBron adds 15 wins, then the Lakers are 3rd behind the Ws and the Rockets. Point is, there is a huge glut after you get past the Ws and the Rockets.

Regular season basketball in the West just got a lot more interesting.
If they can add Kawhi, I'd put my money on the Lakers to win it all.
 
auror said:
The Rondo signing is REALLY weird.

He and Ball are like the same player. Why? Why not add shooting instead?
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Who knows. You’d imagine they’re just getting ready to ship Ball, who was a really bad pick to begin with. The headaches aren’t worth the talent
 
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uconnphil2016 said:
Who knows. You’d imagine they’re just getting ready to ship Ball, who was a really bad pick to begin with. The headaches aren’t worth the talent
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I hate Lonzo as much as anyone and he really has no shooting ability, but he’s not really a bad pick. He just happened to be in the same draft class as 4 guys who have exceeded expectations. He’s still the 4th or 5th best player in that draft class.

Lonzo is very bad in half court offense. He is a positive at pretty much every thing else (transition, defense, rebounding). But man, the dude is extremely bad at putting the ball into the hoop.
 
auror said:
The Rondo signing is REALLY weird.

He and Ball are like the same player. Why? Why not add shooting instead?
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Sure seems like Lonzo will be gonzo. Since they are adding a bunch of people who can't shoot, letting them know I'm available.

Guessing they are adding people to make some sort of deal.
 
The Lakers signings make little sense tactically but I do wonder if there has been a conscious decision to sign role players that won't cower in the moment. There is no Rodney Hood in this group.
 
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Perfect! The most easily hated dude in the league goes to the most easily hated team in the league.
If Khawi goes to the Lakers, the NBA is just getting stupid.
Not sure what to do about it, but what, exactly, is the incentive of fans of the teams outside of the top few to even go to games?
For people more tuned in to the NBA than me, isn't 5 mill severely underpaying this guy?
 
What is the solution? Hard cap? I am still going to watch random weekday league pass games but this can't be good for the league, right?

Joe Lacob is now light years ahead of the rest of the league. Sickening.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Perfect! The most easily hated dude in the league goes to the most easily hated team in the league.
If Kwahi goes to the Lakers, the NBA is just getting stupid.
Not sure what to do about it, but what, exactly, is the incentive of fans of the teams outside of the top few to even go to games?
For people more tuned in to the NBA than me, isn't 5 mill severely underpaying this guy?
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It's only underpaying him by about 20-30 million.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Perfect! The most easily hated dude in the league goes to the most easily hated team in the league.
If Kwahi goes to the Lakers, the NBA is just getting stupid.
Not sure what to do about it, but what, exactly, is the incentive of fans of the teams outside of the top few to even go to games?
For people more tuned in to the NBA than me, isn't 5 mill severely underpaying this guy?
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He could have gotten a 1 yr max, I think, but teams are hesitant to add years. Now he hopes to show he is fully healthy and sign a long term max with some non Warrior team. He is probably sacrificing 20 million over 1 year to play with the Warriors
 
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