we could just trade spare parts for him like houston did. including lou williams...who we gave to them. i've been on that train for a while. i said earlier in the year that i'd give up the house for one top 15 nba player in his prime. the value is undeniable. we have no draw right now.
That's just nothing more than what we've seen in the past, (Insert star players here) looking to join forces in LA, (insert star here) would like to play in LA, (insert star here) could be on the move to LA........ And we get MozDeng to show for it. At some point we need to stop banking on us sitting back and stars coming in and just sacrifice some parts to get them. Like I said before, PG can come to LA at any point in his career, we aren't going anywhere, title windows come and go, if he goes to a contender we aren't going to see him come to LA if he's going to the ECF or Finals yearly. And then we are back to square one, Anthony Davis to LA per anonymous source and Westbrook is coming too!
That's the opposite of what we did. We stepped away from that program and we signed people because we were desperate to stop the "wait for Player X" strategy. Besides, like I said: it comes down to whether or not Ball and Ingram and Zubac and if he's lucky Randle are interesting enough for players to want to come here. It was always going to come down to that. That's why the strategy failed before. Why would anyone come here to play with Ed Davis and a geriatric Kobe? Russell? Boozer? Kaman? Who wants to run with those players? If Ball, Ingram, and Zubac don't catch players' attention then none of this **** mattered anyway.
If that's the case I'd be glad it didn't happen. Old-a** never won a thing flopper CP2 with us on a Supermax deal. Yikes.
It is, but I doubt it... That'd be one of the greatest long games played by George's agent maybe ever.
Oh that's true I guess. I think he's seriously considering it too though. Get away from Cleveland, get away from that owner, get to the nice weather, and get to play with other young stars? Sounds good as long as those players are actually worth a damn (or can be flipped for players who are).
Nothing has changed with the Amick piece. PG is still saying he prefers LA. All that was added is that he would consider a favorable situation elsewhere with a championship contender. But we all knew that was possible already. Amick says PG is still recruiting players to play with him. Cap space is the only way we can make that happen. The Russell trade was a necessity to have a shot at PG + Recruited player as FAs. Creating the space is a good faith display by Magic-Rob. There are no guarantees, but this is FAR from Jim-Mitch and the earlier efforts to clear space with no signals from anyone of their interest. LlllleBron is still putting out the LA vibe, and today's CP trade just eliminated the Clippers from any consideration if there ever was one. I'm with Real. Not seeing the reason to go all Chicken Little at this news.
"While recruiting players to other spots"?. I don't remember that part of the article. That's a world of difference to recruiting players to join him in LA.
Basically Paul George is recruiting guys to join him. He prefers them to join him in LA, but if he's able to join them in other spots, he's open to that too.
Not super encouraging. Doesn't seem so much about playing in LA as it does playing with players he wants, wherever that is.
This whole thing is just... insane. So many moving parts. I'm still debating the best move forward for the Lakers. I still think their best move is finding a way to dump Deng. If they can dump Deng's whole deal somehow (attach to Randle + future pick(s)?) then they have loads of money to spend next summer... Might be their last saving grace in this race.
Lets try to reverse engineer this. Is there anything that the Lakers can possibly to besides offer Ingram/Ball in trade to get PG in a Lakers uniform by October?
The article said multiple times he prefers LA. Seems pretty encouraging to me. We have nothing to compete with the likes of Houston, Boston, or San Antonio roster-wise, but he still prefers LA.
PG to Houston would be the lesser of all evils. Better for us than Boston or Cleveland. Would be a wonderful bit of serendipity to swipe PG from them after they snagged Dwight from us a few years back. "Turn-about is fair play."
I'd say Ingram/Clarkson/Randle would get a deal done today. That's as good as any offer out there from anybody and I firmly believe that.
