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Hopefully a Cavs reunion

 

Kessler at 40M...I think NOT.

https://heavy.com/sports/nba/portla...urce=Campaign+Monitor&utm_term=Read+The+Story

 

Sounds like a Lebron focused nostalgia recognition tour. Sounds about right, to be honest. Whether you think it's corny or not, it is what it is. I wouldn't mind it. Love wouldn't cut into the cap room, he's likely a vet minimum.

 

pretty soon we wont have enough roster spots to accomodate for all of Lebron's nepo signings

 

i'm fine with lebron coming back at the right price, but no thanks to love

 

meh the Lakers brand has been in the star business since forever. Just like that ridiculous final Kobe contract no team has the cache that the Lakers have built up with the best of the best that they'll be taken care of if they produce in LA. If getting Love means Lebron takes a smaller contract makes sense. Luka isn't going to go anywhere either because the lakers will do the same for him

Love will be the Dudley of this team.

That Kessler contract is getting big but that might reduce how much the Lakers have to give up to get him.

 

Yo chill Kevin Love is his dominoes buddy. From L.A. and here for Lebrons final year in the league. Veteran leadership. I’m here for it. If this means having LeBron back at a reduced rate so be it. There’s nothing rolling Center about Love. But hey Bronny has an uncle. And now we can get to the rest of our buisness. Reaves Rui and Robert Williams. Now Bron??? How you gonna bring Peyton Watson here??????

 

where’s Kyrie?

 

Austin Reaves UPDATE, Sign & Trade?! Trey Murphy AVAILABLE, Kawhi Market, BAD Giannis News

 

Not really opposed to K.Love at vet minimum. still a very good shooter for a big and averages 15/13 Per36 so he can still contribute.
10-15 minutes here and there isn't the worst out there.

But I do wonder what is in it for the Lakers. K.Love isn't a priority and it would be a 'make LeBron happy' type of situation but the Lakers should obviously get a discount if they're doing LeBron a solid here.

Maybe LeBron just wants another friend down there? I mean, most of the Lakers roster are younger guys. If K.Love being on the team helps him mentally to be motivated, it could also be a good thing. Every roster, regardless of it being title contender or not, will have players who take a roster spot and not play minutes anyways.

 

Looks like the Knicks won't be able to offer Mitch Rob much. Payroll is tight from them to stay under the 2nd apron. Seems like Lakers could fairly easily nab Mitch Rob for around 15 million.

 

Trey young to decline his 48.7 million player option and become a free agent on Monday.

 

He tripping

 

must have a wink wink deal with someone.

 

BREAKING: Trae Young OPTS OUT!! Knicks Losing Mitch Robinson, Landry Shamet? Kevin Love To LA?!

 

Lakers better sign Mitch Robinson. Let’s get after it. Perfect Lob threat Center defensive Center we can put with Ayton and Hayes. Leave that offensive burden up to Ayton. Ayton can be that Center scoring. You need that scoring Center. We’re gonna need that in the playoffs when we have to throw the ball down low to get a score. And Mitch Robinson will compliment that with the lob and defense. I’d be getting a deal with Mitch Rob 12:01 am.

 

I still like the idea of Young in LA to team up with Luka. I would 100% swap Austin or Lebron for Trey murphy or Trey Young

 

Love, Lebron, Luka, Austin, Luke, Rui IMO would be going in the wrong direction.

 

i think his price could go higher, and our routes aren't as clear as people think here. a few teams have the mle, and we're not the only team looking for a center (chicago basically has an empty roster aside from giddey and buzelis). the only way to ensure signing him is to exceed the mle, imo (even that might not get it done), and to do that, we have to be under the cap and thus lose some guys (remember going under the cap only gives us 48 million to play with, plus room exception of 9).

so, if robinson takes 18, you need to split the other 30 between lebron, rui, and one of smart and kennard (other has to take room exception). you could lose kennard and hope smart takes room, but you'd still have both lebron and rui taking bigger cuts than they've indicated interest in taking.

IF you could get robinson for the mle (think charlotte could compete here, but we win cuz lakers), that means potentially losing smart, imo. don't think that swap is actually worth it, as you plug one hole but create another with similarly unreliable (due to injury/age) players.

all this is sidestepping that you're buying high on robinson, who's been best as a backup center (20mpg) and hasn't topped 60 games in half a decade.

curious to see how it plays out. i read a week or two ago that people expected him to opt and out and re-sign with washington for 40 per AAV, and that made sense to me for everyone. but if this is happening without a deal already in place, he must think there will be other offers. this gives the nets an alternative to reaves, imo, and the bulls could also sign him, i think.

two forces could be at work. one is the new draft lottery rules making full-on shameless tanks not profitable means guys like this can have more value than they did a few weeks ago, and the other could be some shifts in the ways agents think, a trend i've noticed with harden being a good example of someone who's taking gradually stepped-down contracts instead of pushing the max until you become minimum overnight like westbrook and melo (and many others) did.

on the flipside, if i'm washington, i've got some "don't throw me in that briar patch" feeling going on here. yes, you probably traded for young hoping he'd be part of a much improved team next year, but his opt out means you suddenly have serious options. because you have no other FAs to lose, you can play the RFA game with any of the 4 big names out there. young walking also gives you an out to selling AD, pr-wise.

so, this one is interesting to me for many reasons.

you like young but not reaves to team up with luka? reaves is the better defender and closer on offense than many would think.

i agree here, but would add that replacing reaves with young doesn't change it.


finally, re: love--i don't care that much, but i really don't understand giving away a roster spot to basically an assistant coach/chemistry guy before the offseason has even started. i highly doubt he'd be the reason lebron would take a drastic paycut to help the team, which would be the only reason to promise him a roster spot before you'd explored all your pathways. like, what if a malik monk situation occurs again?

 

I super super hope not

If we care about defense, how can this be a real topic?