2019/20 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

I wouldn't be as annoyed as I am now if Magic, Rob and Jeanie didn't bend over backwards to sell us on the 2018 plan. Two max contracts! That's what we heard for months even though to get there we would have to get rid of some guys that are currently playing well on the team.

There are ways to save some face here but man it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Like being sold a brand new sports car only to find out it's been around the block several times.

 

lol, the russell hate is funny. what did he do? outplay our untouchables. what did we get? cap space we can't use or a center we don't want.

win? nope. terrible asset management born of overconfidence and inexperience.

that's what people are mad about. russell's not a star, but he could have been moved for something that wasn't unusable cap space.

 

We got Kuzma. I wasn't happy about the Lou trade either but we got Hart and that's all that really matters at this point.

 

Agreed. Hindsight is pointless. As is the Dlo talk. I wish it would stop.

 

I'm not one to debate movies and such. But I gotta say that the series Longmire on Netflix with its 5 or 6 seasons that I really liked a great deal .... had the stupidest last 15 minutes of a nonsensical ending in the history of show business.

 

Trade deadline is two days away and it seems pretty quiet. Besides the Griffin trade that happened last week, we had a pretty small trade Nets/Bucks trade. A lot of teams gauging value. A lot of playoff teams trying to shore up any weaknesses.

 

Nope. Not after claiming that THEY will get s*** done, unlike their predecessors (again, Magic). You don't get the benefit of the doubt after you've kicked your way in and pounded your chest.

 

oh yeah, everyone piled on russell after he was dumped at his lowest possible value by people with nothing invested in him (you know, like they would have with randle and clarkson earlier in the year had they had any takers).

i said he outplayed our untouchable players. you retort with trashtalk about him after the fact, lowlights, and even some innocuous stuff. not sure what you're proving? i could link to his big scoring games and big shots and quotes from people inside and outside of the organization claiming he'd be a star.

people like to reframe the trade to protect their emotions, but the truth is that had anyone suggested it before it happened 95% of laker fans would have screamed about how insulting it was to even dream of offering such nonsense for a #2 overall pick who--contrary to popular belief--had been not at all disappointing.

now we take credit for kuzma and russell's knee injury (whilst completely dismissing ball's troubling absences, btw).

*shakes head*

anyway, i guess we can talk about preserving some space for 2019 for the next year and a half...

 

Every time I see your AVI guy lurking from the bushes I think of Dudley Moore in the movie 10. The opening scene in this clip at the wedding and then at 1:08 while being a voyeur with the telescope and the fall down the hill. Softens some for me your irrational hate of Jeanie Buss and Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka.

 

Getting Kuzma and Hart is a trade I make 100 times out of 100 at this point for Russell. Hart is a D-Fish impact player for the future. Stats and ability will be secondary, his intangibles are huge on a young team. Kuzma is Kuzma. He looks like he's going to be a superstar.

 

Lol

However, I think I’ve rationalized my hate plenty of time.

 

makes no sense. you simply don't move players at their lowest value point.

he played better basketball than our current crop. our current crop has also done absolutely nothing. you down with ingram/deng for an expiring and the 28th pick this summer?

i was in favor of trading the #2 pick for someone proven. russell wasn't traded for someone proven. he was traded for cap space. or a 4rpg center. take your pick.

i'm still all for trading the young players for players who are better. i would have gladly traded russell for a talented veteran. if you'll recall, i was one of his bigger detractors in terms of his demeanor (since pre-draft, i might add!). so this suggestion that i'm in love with russell is preposterous. i just know a lame front office move when i see one, and that one stunk when it wasn't immediately followed by capitalizing on the leverage.

when we had the pick after? absolutely.

and as i said already: russell missed 18 games in two years with the lakers. ball's about to eclipse that in 2/3 of one year.

ball/deng for expiring/28th pick?