Lakers - Kings- Trade Very Unlikely; Both Teams Focused On Draft

While trading for Kareem, Gasol, and adding Shaq in free agency. If we keep Randle and Clarkson, we'll have essentially adopted the same model that has worked so well for the Lakers. You rebuild using trades, the draft, and free agency. We keep our picks that we drafted in Randle/Clarkson that will contributors, we add free agents with our cap space, and we traded for Boogie.

 

Right... not a single question mark in THAT scenario.

 

I didn't even want to factor that in.

 

None at all for me. Cousins would be fine.

 

There is no model or a blueprint. The fact that for some of our runs we did a relatively similar thing means nothing.

you could also say that we had:

Magic + Worthy + aging Kareem (no trade)

and now we have

#2 + JS + Randle + aging Kobe (no trade here too)

that's not comparing the players, but comparing the alleged blueprint you are alluding to.

 

Scott, Cooper, Fisher, Walton.... well scratch that last one....

 

Not to mention what happened to the Lakers are highly valuing "character" in how they build their team. So much joy in this amazing last several weeks goes out the door for me if they trade the prodigy that is Jahlil Okafor for Demarcus Cousins and all the risks that entails. Ugghh!! I haven't used a head bang in awhile. Time for one.

 

I hope you are right. My concern doesn't lie in the ability of Mitch to do something, rather in the pressure of the time frame that
was imposed (or self-imposed) on his boss.

You tend to do really stupid stuff under pressure. Hail Mary of sorts.

 

We've heard #2 for Cousins & #6 with us being hesitant to include Randle to get the deal done. We've heard #2, Clarkson, Randle for Cousins & Landry. If a deal happens it's likely somewhere in between. I still think our best bet is to get Denver involved with a S&T for Lin & #27 along with Gay & Landry that lands Sacto Lawson. Chandler, & Faried. We end up with something like Cousins, Collison, #6.

 

It amuses me how some of you want to abandon the laker way of rebuilding a championship team and adopt a different approach.

The fact stands that no other front office has a better track record for building championship teams than this one.The Spurs and Heat come close, but neither team built two different teams that made three straight final appearances.

I'm obviously biased, but I think we have the best management in basketball.

As it stands now, this is their first WCF appearance since '76. In that span, the Lakers have made 15 finals appearances and won 10 titles (7 finals appearances and five titles, since '00)

I'm not impressed by Presti and and the self-annointed genius down in Houston. I'll take the grey fox and his team over those front offices every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Forget the false narrative, pushed by sports media outlets, that our management isn't up to snuff. We were hamstrung by a new CBA right after handing two large contract extensions. Now that we have cap flexibility and young assets, we're ready to roll.

Last year's dry run in the free agency has made the Lakers that much more prepared for this year's free agency period. You want to see how you build a championship contender is built? Pull up a chair. Watch and learn.

 

Seriously?

 

Please, spell out for us, what is the Lakers way of rebuilding?

 

Come on ROFY, with Okafor and Randle you can't be serious in saying that either with the time frame or the question on their obvious talent, cost controlled, with what your eyes tell you.