Lakers - Kings- Trade Very Unlikely; Both Teams Focused On Draft

Please god, no.

 

I woke up this morning feeling rather apathetic about this whole thing. If it happens it happens, I don't care at this point. I'm not married to any style of rebuilding, and I don't want to build a farm system here as well. Do what you do, Mitch.

 

These talks could literally be weeks old. The whole situation is a mess, and now that word has gotten out it's that much less likely to happen. If the Kings truly want veterans ready to win now that means LAL have to find a 3rd team willing to give up those pieces for 2, and there is always the possibility that the 3rd team decides they would rather have Cousins than 2 and just does the deal themselves.

A trade with 2 teams is tough to pull off, 3 teams though-especially when major assets like 2 and Cousins are being thrown around- are insanely difficult.

 

Any specific deal that gets leaked doesn't happen. The only exception to that was the whole Dwight fiasco. It turned into a public spectacle. However, even during the part of the deal that resulted in Dwight coming to Los Angeles; there was about a week of silence and didn't get reported until the deal was also almost done. This has a chance to go that direction. Sacramento is going to have a circus, and I'm looking forward to it. Give him hell, DeMarcus.

 

Great. I want this rumor to go away as quickly as possible.

 

Not always true. An example would be Kevin Love and Wiggin last year. There were speculations for over weeks and both team denied. It eventually happened anyway. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

 

Lakers don't leak anything. Historically, the Lakers work in the shadows. We don't know want's going on until the deal is almost completed. All 'leaks' usually come from the other team.

 

seems like karl is the only really pushing for sacramento to do this, divac and ranadieve want nothing to do with it. not surprising as he's an old school type coach and characters like cousins are nothing but a headache for him

unless this situation actually works in our favor and ranadieve is forced to deal cousins to please karl and agrees to a lesser package. if mitch can dust off the old wand and somehow acquire cousins without giving up #2 and clarkson then i'm all for it. but the likeliness of that happening i would assume are slim to none

 

Something tells me Ole George ain't going to be too popular with having forced Boogie out of town and no improvement on last year's play, if that even, when Cousins was healthy. I'd imagine this scenario wasn't in his job interview. I don't like George. Maybe it's just his face as someone else said last year.

 

Nice breakdown.. I was strongly in favor of this deal, but maybe not so much now.

 

Maybe this is already well known, but the speculation right now is that this whole thing is coming from Cousins' camp.

 

That's what Windhorst reported the other day. He said that Cousins has 'privately' asked for a trade. He expressed interest in going to Los Angeles.

 

Turns out if we get Cousins, we have to sign this guy, or no deal.


Damn, George is a tough negotiator.....

 

Julius + 27 + 34 and switch picks... that's the absolute most I'd give up for this guy. That'd allow us to keep Clarkson and still get a talented rookie to form our young core.

 

So we haven't learned our lesson yet? Jesus, we are in a good position already, we are about to have an excellent trio of young guys. Why give that up? We aren't winning a title with cousins/Kobe. It's not gonna happen. Get over it. We gambled already, and we lost. Are we really going for it again?

Please tell me these are just rumors and there is no basis for these rumors...