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  1. Cookie

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    Guess he really isn’t coming back. That sucks.
     
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    Rob cut off his main source of leaks. I guess the Westbrook video incident, put him on the suspect list, and the players wanting him to take over for Ham leak, did him in.

    Snitches get stitches.
     
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    it's interesting that phil was known as one of the league's best player development guys, jj (and the FO) is supposedly leaning into player development, and we decided to fire phil. as slick suggests, there's more to the story here.

    either phil was slipping on the job, or something else he was doing was outweighing the positives.
     
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    KareemtheGreat33 - Lakers MVP -

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    You know me too well:Noddingyes:
     
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    Inquiring minds want to know!
     
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    i think maybe part of the point is that we won't know precisely because of the message sent here (as slick suggested above).

    no way the lakers want to comment on it publicly, so only leaks can tell the story, but if the story is that it's a priority to get rid of distracting leaks...
     
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    I think JJ probably asked to start on a clean slate. He probably wanted more influence in the player development program and having such a high profile guy with much more years in the team could become detrimental to what he wants to do.

    I still think it wasn't a good decision and you should rely on experienced dudes, but maybe he felt it wouldn't work well with such a high profile, especially with the background talk of Phil possibly fill Ham's vacancy (and maybe himself growing expectation of it or at least a lead assistant coach).
    It's all speculation, so who knows...
     
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    DeMar DeRozan on why he picked the Kings over Lakers

    Because I want to Win ! Ouch !!!! What in the world is going on ? Kings are better than us ! 9C1B7C4A-7569-42A2-86F2-73E68F065304.jpeg
     
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    That report is solely based on the opinion of Bontemps, who have 0 connections to the Lakers.
    His opinion makes total sense, but just to correct that it doesn't "seem DLo will be the first to go". It's just an opinion from a guy.

    Just wanted to clarify for those who might not open the link
     
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    Who is Bontemps? The Hawks not wanting him, had already been pretty widely circulated. Wanting to move him, doesn't make it easy to find a taker though.
     
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    Also, we just went through a whole season of the players not-so-subtley bashing their coach post-game while anonymous "reports" came out that the locker room would like Handy as an interim coach. If I'm JJ I don't want the players' favorite assistant from the previous regime there, especially if he plans to take on a bigger role in development than our previous HCs.
     
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    A reporter of ESPN. He's part of Hoop Collective, a type of podcast with McMahon and Brian Windhorst. Actually Bontemps follows more the East teams, McMahon follows the West, especially Dallas and Phoenix. He has a beef with Cuban actually

    I'm sure the whole league knows we would trade DLo if we find the right player to enhance the team. No news there
    Yeah that makes sense too
     
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    It’s not a rumor, it’s legit . AD Is requesting for another big man 66321B16-6F9E-4FF9-9A73-2AEA2F0E3ACF.jpeg
     
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    yeah, that's not based on inside info, but rather that we've attempted to trade him like, 7 times.

    both we and the media are too harsh on dlo, who--as the article points out--has been a huge reason we improved post-russ.
     
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    1st in with …. Waits for “Russ is still better than DLO”

    :Laugh:

    #IfTheShoeFits
     
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    Welcome to L.A. (Lakers Anonymous)

    Hi, I'm Sirron, and I'm.....
     
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    I still don't understand why we didn't go after this guy in free agency with Lebron saying he'd give a discount and naming him as one of the players he would do so for.
     
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    Yeah. Not sure what happened there
     
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    Wasn’t LeBron also hot on Klay or was that the FO? Seemed like Jonas got snapped up while that was going on?
     
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