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Please. As someone who has lived it first hand and was there right in front of Vanessa at game 7 against Portland and has met Kobe many of times. I know what those two are and what they were to this organization.

read the post man. There was no comparison. It was Ayton and Luka both in their prime together.

I said Remember when Kobe and Shaq were in their prime together? It worked pretty good and it did. 3 championships and they were in their prime together.

so I was stressing the importance of having two players in their prime together the same age. Were they will grow together and have those same drives of winning but also one won’t be older where they will be in the league together and still have the benefit of the player playing great getting the best out of their career. That was the point.

it wasn’t hey Luka and Ayton are Kobe and Shaq.

 

Windhorst Windho really stirring the pot.

 

I liked seeing Bronny James show that Kobe at summer league and say I GOT HIM.

Cooper Flagg let me guard him. Bull call that was great defense by Bronny. Ball should’ve been ours bounds Lakers ball. I liked seeing Bronny take the challenge.

only Kobe would do that. Against Mike Bibby and the Sacramento Kings. Against Allen Iverson and the Philedelphia 76ers. And Paul Pierce and the Boston C Bags.

Loved seeing Bronnys compete. You can’t teach that. But it was great seeing that. Only leaders do that.

 

Gave the article a chance without seeing the author(s), reached the point where they said Lopez grew wary of the Lakers future and chose to sign with the Clippers and instantly knew it was Ramona Shelburne.

There’s literally been zero evidence that Lopez spurned us for the Clips. People guessed we were “zeroing in” on Lopez despite it being pretty clear we were getting Ayton.

Think about it, the first several paragraphs of the article discussed how the Lakers were wining and dining Luka to ask who he wanted to team up with. He’s friends with Ayton who became available a day before FA. But nah, we were totally focused on Lopez, right.

Shelburne has become a total hack and Windhorst isn’t much better.

 

Once again, I can’t wait for us trading LeBron away automatically helping us win the Lottery next draft. That’ll be the best.

 

Golden state needs to be penalized for tampering. Why are they even asking LeBron does he want to get traded there? And you know they asked his people. That’s tampering.

 

spot the f*** on.!!!!!!!

 

You knew it was b******* when you saw the authors. Known Laker Hater Brian Windhorst. And other Laker hater Ramona Shelbourne. I got receipts.

Ramona used to hate on the Lakers John Ireland days. ESPN LA 710. During the Deangelo Russell Brandon Ingram era.

The Lakers don’t know what they’re doing. Nobody wants to sign there.

Jeanie Buss was her source. All she would do was slam Jim Buss.

When Rob got the job she wasn’t getting sources. Got pissed. LeBrons people weren’t giving her s***. Because Lebrons guy mouthpiece is Dave Mcnemin.

 

The fact that you can pair Luka with Deandre Ayton after trading Anthony Davis. Has to be admired by Laker fans of Rob Pelinka.

 

Been saying…Bron opted in to get bought out (“you owe me”) so he can get his money, play with Steph, Jimmy, and Draymond, without them losing assets. But the new owner doesn’t owe him, the Buss family does.

Hope they do trade him. Don’t want Luka’s prime years influenced at all dealing with LeBron drama.

 

This whole thing is a bit of a joke to me. Where is LeBron going to compete - where trading 50m of salary leaves them as a competitor?

Golden State would have to give: Kuminga (25m), Podz (4m), Moody (11m) and Hield (9m) and that only gets them to 49m. They’re going to play who exactly around Steph, Lebron, Jimmy and Dray? They’d be at 193m in salary with just those 4 guys.

They might offer us Jimmy instead? At which point I ask for a first round pick back and accept it if Lebron wants to leave.

Cleveland has to give up Allen, Hunter and another player or Garland and one of Allen/Hunter. That’s going to kill a lot of their depth at Guard and Big.

I just don’t see it.

 

Again, I think he is pouting for a buy out. So he keeps his money and the new team doesn’t lose anything. Then him and Dame go to that team.

Dallas
Cleveland
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Knowing him, he would just go to OKC for a year. So weak.

 

There is no way in the NBA of America will the Lakers buyout Lebron James.

What does that do for us???????

How does that help us?????????

okay Golden State we’ll do a Shaq trade. Give us. Kaminga Podz And That 1st round pick and Moody


but if you want him on Cleveland give us Allen Garland Hunter


We gonna get our players back.

wanna go to San Antonio you can give us Barnes and Vassell and Johnson go ahead.

This narrative that LeBron is gonna get his money and walk to another team is a joke.

His son is here on the summer league team. No way his Momma going for that. Savanah ain’t going for that and she runs it. Daughter playing Vollayball out here. Bryce in Arizona.

Makes no sense.

Lebron is pissed they didn’t run things by him. What the F you supposed to do run a sale by a player???? They could’ve done a better job after about bringing him in what’s coming up.

I will give Lebron he did welcome Luka with open arms when he was traded here and made him feel welcome.

 

I mean this passionately. We lost Kobe. We lost Gigi. I was SOOOO ready to follow her career locally in HS, College, the WNBA and just like Kobe whatever she was into after her playing career. That was tragically taken from all of us. But OMG …. blessed Lakers fans that we all are …. here comes Bronny James and oh hell yeah I am here for that. When you have those kind of genes and are tutored mentally by your Pops who is legit one of the 3 greatest players of all time and you are ALREADY a Laker …….

 

WTF …. seriously? Nice pile on post …. I admit his snit is annoying /or worse too …. but back to reality, Shirley you can’t be serious. Even threw in “so weak” like it was a real possibility with OKC … after seeing what that kind of move did for KD’s legacy.

 

It’s hard to tell when you write in run on sentences.
Yeah, I was at many games as well from 1999-2003.

 

Seriously?? I didn’t say it would happen or that the Lakers should do it - of course they should get something. Said it’s what he wants or is angling for. And all this pouting and annual manipulation is weak.

 

Just saying out of all the Lakers I’ve met Kobe the most. He came to my personal events. So I get very passionate when I talk about Kobe. He’s my guy. More then anything he’s done on the court just the guy he was off the court.

 

Umm this Hansen Yang kid looks fun. White chocolate flair to a Jokic like passing game

 

High drama and it's only July. That's the Lakers