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Do you have the cajones?

Our situation is fluid and there will tons of speculation and money flying around everywhere this off-season. What do you predict will happen, and what will the Lakers ACTUALLY do this off-season? I'm predicting a brotastic offseason, and Mitch will kick arse and take names.

This is a decent resource if you want to take a look at draft picks and who has them.
Look up contracts and team payroll here

My Prediction Below in gif format



I'll start off with my best prediction:

We started off the off-season right with two solid moves.

1. Fired Byron Scott
2. Hired young up and coming coach that has received nothing but raves. Luke Walton
3. I predict we do keep our 1st...

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/lakers-jim-buss-on-free-agency-luke-walton-and-more/

I won't post the whole article out of respect to Pincus, but here's the first bit:

After two straight offseasons where we have been the center for teams to dump their unwanted parts (Lin, Hibbert), I figured why not get proactive here and go through each team and find their dumps. If things all go to plan this thread will die signaling a bright future. If things go South, we can come back here and pick out our favorite dump (Picks excluded b/c obviously we are getting a 1st for this dirty work). Let's see what's cookin....

Atlanta - Tiago Splitter (1 year remaining 8.55 million)

Boston - Amir Johnson ( 1 year remaining 12 million guaranteed if not waived by 7/3/16)

Brooklyn - Jarrett Jack (1 year remaining 6.3 million, 500k guaranteed if not waived by 6/30/16)

Charlotte - Spencer Hawes (2 years remaining 12.6 million, 2nd year PO)

Chicago - Derrick Rose ( 1 year remaining, 21 million), Taj Gibson (1 year remaining, 8.9 million)

Cleveland - Channing Frye (2 years remaining, 15.6 million)

Dallas - JJ Barea (3 years remaining ~ 12 million)

Denver - Wilson...

What best out there young training prodigy, like Luke is a coaching prodigy ..... is not going to want the job. Vitti will give a good referral if the Lakers need it.

What kind of an intensive search is going on for this position ..... any insight or best guessing?

When I got the news of Luke being named head coach of the Lakers I honestly jumped out of my seat. Basically the same reaction (well not quite, but you get the idea) as when Kobe erupted for 60 in his final game. It was exciting because Luke was the guy I thought for the longest time basically the entire season was gonna be our next head coach. The guy I thought would be the perfect fit for our young core. A guy I knew in my heart would never turn this opportunity down because I know he is a Laker at heart and it has probably hurt him as much as anyone seeing us struggle so much. Once a Laker always a Laker. He won championships here. He spent most of his career here and now he is the guy who has been chosen as the coach who is gonna lead us into a new era.

For the last few years it just seems like the Lakers have been stuck in limbo. Last summer was really depressing with what we presented to LaMarcus Aldridge. I mean that presentation was just embarrassing. We had nothing to...