2022-23 Team Developments: News / Trades / Free Agents / Rumors

yeah, it's slim pickins. which is why keeping monk won't be easy.

 

He’s gone for sure, unless Rob can first pull that rabbit out of his hat.

 

My targets by order are:

RoCo
Pat
Mcgee
Bruce Brown
Markieff
Ingles
Looney
Prince
Derrick Jones Jr
TJ Warren
Jalen Smith
Thaddeus Young
Biyombo
RoLo
Hartenstein
Tristan Thompson
Dieng


(Without trades)

 

I’d cut Bazemore and try out Evans on a 10 day contract while we wait for the rest of the buyout market to emerge.

 

here's our long guy who can shoot.

 

glad to hear tyreke is able to at least give it a try. seems like he's had a real struggle with substance use in ways that sports fans take too lightly.

 

The guy is like a cockroach

 

In more ways than one.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see Rob go after Reddish again this summer.

Apparently, he had a deal but talks fell apart according to Windhorst because the other two teams involved in the transaction couldn't agree on draft compensation.

I think he makes a play for him again this summer.

 

When we had the title team in 19/20, he was rumored to have gone after Schroder during the trade deadline.

He wasn't successful acquiring him @ that time. When we would trade for him again, he did, and it was the first trade that went down that off-season.

That's my logic - he's very aggressive in going after what he wants.

We shall see, though.

 

LeGM is pretty persuasive.
Let’s see if Rob has learned his lesson.

 

The question I pose again:
Is Jeanie really going to pay extra for these buyout guys in salary and tax money?

 

I was surprised when it first came out that we were going to be aggressive for Dragic.

Now that it’s been brought up, I would love to have him (although my expectations for another 35+ year old player would be tempered). But I didn’t think he fit our biggest needs, and I didn’t think it was realistic that we would appeal to him.

Now I’m starting to wonder if that’s the strategy… publicly make it seem like Dragic is your number one target, knowing he’s likely going to sign elsewhere. That way when we do strike out on him, ownership can say “Well we couldn’t get the guy we wanted, so we’ll stick with our current roster”.

 

“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.”

 

This Lakers are cheap narrative is false. We have the 4th highest payroll in the NBA.