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Nah man. Wasn’t directed at you.

 

No to DFS, I was ecstatic every time I’d see him check into the game for Houston



I don’t know who this guy is so I’m assuming this is just an aggregation of speculation, but if we pulled this all off I’d be pretty happy

Reaves / Sexton / Bronny
Grimes / Carr
Kuminga / Williams / Thiero
Luka / Mamu / LaRavia
Kessler / Richards

(I’m using Trevor Lane’s approach to slotting in the positions based on likely defensive matchups, hence Luka at 4)

Maybe you have to dump LaRavia too but I’d prefer to keep him as depth. Maybe you end up trading Bronny for a second round pick to help the salary dumps, and replace him with Manon

Then at that point I’d want to fill the last two spots with some veterans who are down to play the Jared Dudley role. Mainly just a locker room presence to provide experience and stability but maybe can fill in for emergency depth.

 

if we pulled that off, it's an A+ offseason, and it's exactly the three players i want who are still left.

i don't know if we can get kuminga AND ziaire, as i'm not sure williams is going to go for the vet min. teams still have money, and somebody who has more than vet min has to see that he can be useful. i think if we strike out on kuminga, the obvious pivot is to try to move knecht (and possibly bronny) into space and offer williams the 6 million he was going to get this year before his team option was declined.

i do think richards is probably looking at vet mins, though hayes signed for 6 per, so maybe he's holding out, too. we could try to shift hardy around to accommodate a richards acquisition, too.

so, yeah, i think plan A is moving off some combo of knecht/laravia/hardy to get kuminga, and plan B is the same but for williams and richards?

all three would be wild.

 

Suddenly Austin at $41.2M seems like a bargain.

 

I hope Rob protects the Lakers interests for once. Can't be 2 years with a player option or something similar. We need to be able to retain Kuminga, if he actually improves.