I'm with you Cookie .... livid. The media's sticking to their 2019 story no matter what the **** happened. Who you going to believe ... Us or your lyin' eyes?
@LTLakerFan There is no changing the minds of these fools. What I love about it is that the hate towards Rob validates his efforts to build the team, to think Kawhi & Co(horts) tried to screw the Lakers' free agency. (How'd that work out? LOL) He must being doing something right when his peers hate him so much.
@Cookie At this point, it's a meaningless award. Just look at the personalities voting for such, and the jealousy towards Rob.
Then again he's a former player agent some voters feel did not do enough of the grind. Johnson's rant against him probably did not do any favors either. All that won't matter soon.
I’m ok with Rob not winning the award, because they don’t really give Lakers awards, but Frank winning it and Rob being 7th is laughable. Also why are Ujiri and Horst ahead of him? One let Brogdon walk and really didn’t add to their roster and one lost Kawhi and also didn’t add anything really. Rob traded for AD, signed multiple players when the free agent pool was bone dry that ended being huge for depth in getting us to the 1 seed (Bradley, Dwight, Green, Rondo, McGee, Cook), rewarded a 2-way player with a real contract that earned it in Caruso, signed Morris off waivers (also signed Cousins before he got injured), this team was hugely different than last season. But all you have to do is look at who votes on this award to get it, it’s rival execs. They aren’t going to reward a Laker or award the Laker way of doing things a damn thing, this is one actual, literal example of “they hate us cuz they ain’t us”, it’s that simple.
I swear to God if we win tonight and the Finals MVP goes to Jimmy Butler, I'll scream! Haters gonna hate, I guess.
no, now it's presti or griffin. the only thing more intoxicating than e-wins are "future dynasties" and "controlling the draft". btw, if i ever we're "controlling the draft", i'll know something pretty bad happened.
8/2019: “I feel confident in winning exec of the year. I’ve never been more confident in the $15m/yr I just spent.”
it's a fair point. and i wasn't arguing for rob to win it. but i think that that his case is pretty similar to frank's and better than the memphis and milwaukee (which was a disaster, imo) cases. to me, riley getting butler when they had no business being in the bidding was HUGE. this was the kind of thing we used to do before dr. buss passed, i feel like.
Yeah, I would have no argument if they gave it to Riles. He should be in the conversation every year. The other guys, including Frank are not deserving. So Frank assembled a talented, disfunctional second round team. Yay, I guess.
