I would have liked to make a trade deal with Dennis, even if it was just for an exception because I’m a Laker fan and he could have been a asset. I don’t give a hoot whether he gets screwed in free agency. He made his bed.
if he had signed the extension do we think he could've got pkg'd for Russ and we might have been able to keep Kuz or Trez for other trade options?
I just want his toxic a** off the team. That's humiliation enough. Let him walk, then f*** him. No rear-view mirrors.
Laker fans to Dennis as he walks out the door: And the score is: Final Verdict: Can't wait to see you at Staples soon:
Terrible...his agent should be fired immediately. I knew once we made the Westbrook trade, Schroder wasn't coming back, but man...we get absolutely nothing out of an asset we gave up a first round pick for. That bothers me, I couldn't care less, about how bad he looks and all that. It's a bad look on the Lakers for getting zero in return for the guy. It's still a loss for us IMO.
It was a gamble that didn’t pay off. But I would have made it as well. Green was awful and Schroder was the runner up SMOTY. Worth a shot to fill that vacancy at PG. Who knew he was such an idiot?
I think the only thing worse than this was the Le'veon Bell holdout a few years back. Steelers were going to pay him 12 million per for 3 years, he wanted more because he considered himself a dual positioned player. He thought he was going to re-invent the position, he sits out the whole year, loses 12 million and essentially signed a worse contract to play for the JETS. Does nothing there. Does nothing in KC after. What makes it worse than this situation with Schroder, is Schroder has time to possibly get lucky and get a bigger contract next year or something. Le'Veon Bell was on the trajectory to a hall of fame career and now he's known as the guy in the Hall of I didn't play so I wouldn't make 12 million.
what I think is the most interesting thing, is we could have easily done the same deal as Boston before we signed Nunn, but we didn't even bother I guess Dennis really burned his bridges with the Lakers
One of the worst miscalculations in NBA history. I'm all for betting on yourself, but a huge prerequisite for that is to not be a dumb a**. Thinking back, the only time Dennis didn't cause a stir about coming off the bench was when he was backing up one of the greatest PGs of all time in CP. And he's not even dumb enough th think he's going to get the start over him. In ATL he began to fuss in the final year or so before they ultimately picked him over Teague moving forward. According to the Boston report today, one of the reasons he was waiting to accept the Boston gig (other than money that he wasn't going to get) was he was STILL looking for a starting spot. Meaning in a matter of months he's going to whine about backing up Smart. It's like he's taking the Rondo playbook and reading it backwards. Going from LA to Boston will certainly earn even more boos from Staples. I can't imagine truly believing someone is going to pay you around $125m only to accept $6m. That's astonishing if you sit and think about it. Hopefully this makes him take a hard look in the mirror, because such delusions of grandeur will get you committed to Bellevue. Here's where I think it all went wrong, point by point and why he was seen as toxic from the entire league... - made starting demands on a team coming off a championship WITHOUT YOU - self > team and a history of it - ludicrous salary expectations - refusal to take covid seriously on multiple occasions - ratted out the face of your team in attempts to save yourself from media persecution - locker room issues with Kuz who has had zero issues with anyone ever - doubled down on asinine salary expectations as free agency started - zero growth as a player in the season - inability to step up in absence of teammates - inability to be a true PG combine all that I don't take a run at him before any of the marquee names that went off the board before him and took all the starting spots. Better luck next summer... Spoiler: GIF NSFW - LANGUAGE
I am starting to think the Lakers are the luckiest team in sports. Schroder declines us overpaying him by 15 mil, the Lakers replaced Schroder with Westbrook and we got him on a shorter deal. Which means after two years, Lakers get 47 million off the books if they choose not to resign him. If we resign Westbrook after 2 years, that means he likely helped the Lakers win a title. You can't write this s***. Lakers may not win the title but man, we have to, as fans, give Jeanie and Rob and Lebron and all the guys credit for trying. That's where I stand in this, win or lose.
I have zero feeling for Dennis. Good or bad. Turning down 84 million with his skill set was financial suicide. Even if he is rich now. 70% of athletes go broke after their playing careers. I hope that number is inflated for his sake.
Yeah. But hard to blame Rob. He made the seemingly good trade for what it cost to bring in a talented guard that LBJ wanted too to take some of the load off him. He was so bad attitude and culture wise plus couldn't be available and play well the absolute worst time in the season due to his not taking the virus seriously .... just killed any desire for him from other teams and we couldn't move him. I'm sure Rob tried his a** off. And I can't support the well we should have traded him then at the deadline because he did have a lot of moments of looking good and doing things we brought him here for, and we had a great chance to still win it all at that point. Still, Rob's detractors will be all over him for this.
