2025-26 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

I only stream games. I have never owned a DVR, and pretty much anything I watch is on Netflix, Disney+, or Amazon Prime.

 

As Abeer so courageously pointed out, LeBron is declining. JJ has been working on how to tell him he is starting the year as the sixth man for the good of the team. He has also been working on converting our weak passive defense into an aggressive attacking style that makes teams not want to play the Lakers. This is going to be easier with the addition of Smart and Vando coming in looking like Curry from long range. Part of winning a championship is intimidation. Showtime Lakers and Kobe/Shaq Lakers were feared. We need teams to say "Oh sh@# we play the Lakers tonight" instead of "Yes, we play the Lakers tonight!!!"

 

love thiero's potential; just don't see how he can be ready for nba level ball right out of the box.

lol i did NOT say lebron should come off the bench, though!

i did say he should play lots of backup center minutes...which is probably equally unappetizing to him.

 

So VanVleet tore his ACl. That is a huge loss for the Rockets, he's the table-setter for a team that already had a clunk halfcourt offense. There's a ton on Reed Sheppard's shoulders now.

Please basketball gods, have them sign Westbrook. Westbrook back with KD on another huge/clunky team like those old OKC teams would be poetic.

 

I could tell you were thinking it though...lol

 

wow. yeah, they were already worried about sheppard as a full-time backup. now, maybe sheppard surprises--and i don't think they need too much from the pg position on offense--but they have some depth they can move to get a stopgap, too. would have been nice to have had whitmore to move in such a situation, but i guess they have the seconds they traded him for.

 

Better yet why don't they make a move to get another PG for a FInals team who also is known as an undersized bull dog of a PG named Cardio err just call him Gabe Van Vincent

 

lol gabe for DFS!

 

Would be funny if we got DFS back for Gabe lol.

 

I mentioned this guy Reed Sheppard awhile back saying it was a failure Phoenix didn’t get him in the Durant trade. Saying Phoenix should’ve got him in the Durant trade.

Hes a great player. Can shoot. Can shoot the s*** out of the ball. Reminds me of Curry or Nash.

Now Van Fleet. Losing Van Fleet will cost them the playoffs. That’s a guy I worried about. Cause he’s a guy you could put on Luka.

Now it makes it that much tougher for Houston. Luka LeBron Ayton Reaves.

Who do you guard Thompson has to decide one of them. And then you have Durant that’s it. So their perimeter defense is affected.

and now you don’t have a clutch playoff player.

 

wonderful use of this gif, this was my exact reaction