EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers have so far resisted just throwing stacks of money at their problems.
That waiting game ends this summer.
All the Lakers' plotting and postponing to bounce right back to contending status via a superstar-free-agent splash has to be cashed in this offseason.
The Lakers will spend this summer. They hope they can spend on a new superstar such as Kevin Love. But perhaps it has to be an excellent player without particular cachet such as Greg Monroe. If the market doesn't go their way and they have to settle for two good players, that's not ideal, but so be it.
In any case, it's time to offer the kind of contract commitments that push deep into the future and draw legit players, because this is the last chance the Lakers have to capitalize on the salary-cap space they have hoarded the last few years.
Now let us all collectively wake up from this bad dream, treat it like Vuldemort, and never speak of this season (the season which shall not be named) again
My latest, this time with a positive view on the Lakers future:
"If you are going through hell, keep going"
-Winston Churchill
This year has been a trying one for Los Angeles Lakers fans who have endured a season filled with injuries, uncertainty, and plenty of losing. When the 2014-2015 campaign finally comes to a conclusion and the dust settles this year's Lakers team will likely go into the history books as the worst in the franchise's storied history. Meanwhile fans have struggled to stay positive in such a bleak time, and rightly so given the string of misfortune that has been heaped upon the purple and gold.
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Mark Medina @MarkG_Medina · 11h 11 hours ago
Lakers have exit meetings Tues for some injured players: Price (11 a.m.), Ellington (11:20), Lin (11:40), Young (noon), Randle (12:20)
