2024-25 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

young and lavine are two guys i thought we should try to buy low on this summer and was right about.

 

Exactly. Now a bunch of these kids are going to jump on this guy's bandwagon because he hit a half-court shot LOL.

 

Perhaps Brooklyn is the only team that was willing to take Russell? I seriously doubt that, because expiring contracts are always in demand by the trade deadline. Beating Memphis or Golden State? to the punch for DFS sounds a little suspicious too IMO. Maybe something was going on behind the scenes that prompted moving Tinkerbell so quickly. It took us out of any shot at a major move though.

 

It's serious s***.
now fire in Hollywood and NBA is thinking to cancel game

Hockey game at Crypto was cancelled today

 

rams playoff game is probably going to end up getting moved to arizona too if conditions don't improve

 

OKC-Cleveland was a great battle, where Cleveland won bc they're bigger than OKC. D-Mitch sucked, but their big men got more o-rebs and FTs, and that was the difference. Chet will change that, but that's not my point here. My point is, trade for Kessler. An AD+Kessler frontcourt would dominate defensively and solve the Lakers issue of being at the bottom of the league in boards. LeBron, AD & AR can carry the offense, but to be a contender we need better defense.

 

I agree completely that we need better defense, but in order to be a contender, we would also need an excellent POA guard who also isn’t a liability on offense(Gabe ain’t it). Now, if somehow Vando could be resurrected and ramped up in the next few weeks, we could be okay without this needed addition.
In order to acquire both a good big and guard, it will take all three available picks. Huge decision for Rob to make: decide to go all now and gamble on this team going all the way in the next two seasons, or hold onto his valuable cards and use them for the rebuild.
You guys already know which path I think he should take.

 

We only hold 2 FRPs, for 2029 and 2031.
We also have the top4 protected 2027, but that really only holds any value with Jazz, that hold that pick.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lafbnetwork.com/los-angeles-lakers/lakers-future-draft-picks/amp/

 

That link is wrong. We can trade the 2031 pick.

 

Revisiting the "Lakers unwilling to trade Rui" topic from a couple days ago, bc I didn't see this linked then, but Pincus backpedaled on that and blamed others for aggregating or misinterpreting his words: