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They might actually like Hunter. Again I never got the vibe that Ellis was a big deal to them in the 1st place. Interestingly enough, they still have Derozan, Lavine, Monk and Sabonis up for grabs. The Kings might be the biggest sellers at the deadline. Sabonis is still a good player.

 

Lonzo is done. Turns out you need to knees to play in NBA

 

Well Lonzo played 25 min in a couple of games here recently. His shooting is iffy but he's been rebounding well, dishing 4 or 5 assists with multiple steals in a few recent games. He's not fully cooked yet.

 

Yep that's why the Cavs traded 2 PG's while stil having another all star PG on the roster - definitely believe in Lonzo

 

That's not what I'm saying, I don't care what the Cavs are thinking, Lonzo at 10M has more value to me than Kleber. I'd look at him if he gets bought out, if we do a two for 1 swap for somebody too. Actually with Ellis and Shroeder, I'm expecting him to take a buyout.

 

f*** the Kings. Told you they dont want to deal with us.

we could be offering Lebron James Luka and Reaves and they would say NO!!!!!!!!!!!

deal with teams that want to deal with us.

what do the bulls want for Colby White?

 

I like Colby too. He's on an expiring deal as well...I wish we had a couple more picks in our pockets.

 

Must be the Lakers tax. Any other team, they'll take their garbage 30% from three shooter getting paid $25 million next year. But when it's the Lakers, all of a sudden they want the Lakers 1st rounders and a young star.

I'm glad the Lakers didn't bite on that DeAndre Hunter trade that the Cavs kept trying to peddle.

Terrible deal for the Lakers unless they were getting picks in return that they can flip for other moves.

I'm fine with keeping Rui. He's not the problem but just visibly, the easiest to trade because he's got some value and has the salary to make a trade for a competent player.

Lakers best option is to try and package $25 million worth of salary involving Knecht, Maxi, and Gabe along with some 2nd rounders for decent role players.

Would like to see the Lakers get Gary Trent/Bobby Portis. Bucks aren't making the playoffs. Gabe/Knecht + 2nd rounders would work.

What do you guys think?

Gary Trent / Bobby would improve the Lakers shooting and give the Lakers two very serviceable role players rather than it being wasted on two guys who are producing negative out there. Frankly, it's too late to find defensive 3/D guys without giving up 1st rounders. It'd be in the Lakers best interest to start drafting these guys or developing younger guys (like Max Christie) than overpaying 1st rounders to these poverty franchises expecting overpay.

 

If we aren't taking any money back, and we don't flip our pick into multiple firsts in the upcoming draft, I don't think we are making any substantial moves. I'm not sure about this cap space plan, thinking that we are going to simply outbid some team for their RFA is a risky proposition IMO.

 

Dude gets moved/passed around more than a blunt
I will always thank him for saving us from ourselves.

 

At least Dennis is making a lot of FO contacts, along his journey..



Seriously though..he owns a team( or maybe even a pro league?) in Germany. I wouldn't be surprised to see him making some big moves in Europe when he retires. I met a Spanish guy a few months ago, that said the he was working with big Marc in Spain, and Marc had some big things upcoming too. We might hear from these guys, on the NBA Europe project down the road. I like Dennis, I like his life story, tough little spunky dude.

 

I like DS, our lack of production from the bench would have been fully answered with him around. Instead we have Cardio Gabe with his 0 stat lines

 

Guys tend to get injured worse here so definitely no to Alonzo IMO. No way he’d hold up for us.

 

Kings are just a bad front office. But I think Ellis will be in play this summer if we’re still interested.

 

Hey, calm down.

 

Even crazier is that people on here were adamant that Ellis was worth a 1st round pick

 

I think we’ve been way too hesitant to give up picks in general. I preferred waiting and just signing if we are high on him but I’m not against making a deal with the pick as long as it’s a player who can come in and help at a position of need.