Sucks. He's salary filler at this point. The verbiage in LA's news is contradicting. someone who hasn't played since February and isn't progressing as quickly as anticipated has had setbacks. Period. Otherwise they'd be on the court by now.
Zombie Vando is almost officially here - sucks balls as that Boston game was the best I've ever seen him play. Scottie Pippen like player before he got hurt last year. Dorian Finney Smith come on down the Lakers need (or if Bruce Brown is alive and his knee is well: he'll do)
Damn..Two weeks ago, he was just experiencing " minor discomfort ". With no new setbacks, interesting situation developing here.
Listen, I drive the team Cam bus but here's the problem... based on his career it's when, not if, will he get hurt. Hell, he's already two injuries in on this season. At some point one of those injuries prevent him from returning as the impact starting caliber defender he is right now. If there's a crystal ball that guarantees he'll give another healthy 55+ games, lock it in and focus the trade chips elsewhere. I just don't think that's realistic. I at least want a pivot option and you can never have enough + defensive wings especially if you're not giving up anything. I don't think DFS will cost a first at the deadline. Maybe next month when teams are still asking for the moon, but the losing needs to start soon if teams want to lock a top 5 pick and there's a lot of s***ty and/or severely injured teams this year so the selling needs to happen sooner than later. I like the idea of trying to orchestrate a 3 team deal involving the Nets and Wiz. Nets get: Gabe, Wood Wizards get: Vando, JHS Lakers get: DFS, Valanciunas We address both positions of need, clear two roster spots and don't lose any available talent. Asset wise, I'd be willing to do a first swap or top 20 protected first + 3 second round picks and $3 million cash. They can fight over who gets what.