2018 Off-Season Thread

[turty11]

Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread

I sincerely hope that they move free agency ahead of the draft like some of the teams are suggesting.

[ggsimmonds]

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I sincerely hope that they move free agency ahead of the draft like some of the teams are suggesting.

Narrowly missed the agenda.

They will give a close look into adding bonus point "hotspots" on the court though

[lakers24]

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I sincerely hope that they move free agency ahead of the draft like some of the teams are suggesting.

Same, cause this crap is annoying....like, we still have 3 more days of this lol.

[Vni]

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Same, cause this crap is annoying....like, we still have 3 more days of this lol.

It's easy to stay away though.


Honestly I'd rather nothing happens and we ride our young core one more year.

[ojandpizza]

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All I know is every year every big name is rumored to be headed out to LA and it never amounts for anything more than just something we mock and make a joke of. This is the first year it’s felt like their could be some legitimacy to the rumors. Even if they end up landing nobody this year, at least this time around the “rumors” seem tangible.

[King_B_Mack]

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All I know is every year every big name is rumored to be headed out to LA and it never amounts for anything more than just something we mock and make a joke of. This is the first year it’s felt like their could be some legitimacy to the rumors. Even if they end up landing nobody this year, at least this time around the “rumors” seem tangible.

They really don't though. Nothing is more tangible about right now than anything we got last year about Paul George. I'm too lazy to go tracking them down, but I wouldn't be surprised if they copy pasted some of these articles and tweets and just switched out the names involved from last year. This was the same kind of stuff going on. Paul George was heading to LA the whole second half of the season because he's from there. All the connections and signs pointed to George doing everything in his power to get to LA. Then it was a matter of Indiana wasn't going to trade him. Then it turned into him telling everybody that will listen that he's going to LA no matter what. Then it was Boston and Philadelphia having the better assets that Indiana would rather deal with to take him on and hoping to change his mind, but Indiana was going to engage in trade talks with LA because he'd made it known he would only re-sign with LA so "nobody was going to give up anything of value for a rental." They pumped up all the destinations he could go and kept hammering that it was going to be LA because that's where he wanted to go and none of them, not a single one of them mentioned OKC being a potential landing spot at all and next thing you know out of nowhere, George is headed to OKC on July 1st. The only thing different here is the LeBron factor, which is irrelevant, because Pop and RC couldn't give a **** about LeBron's decision.

[CMH]

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Two things.

We wouldn't even know these stupid ESPN stories if guys here didn't post them. Some of us don't visit that garbage network and website. Please help us.

Finally, I'm sure Pop and the Spurs are holding off on any Kawhi discussion because they don't want to help LeBron. They know he's going to factor in players on a team and if it's true that his camp is pressuring teams to acquire an All Star, why be the team responsible for building a super team of LeBron, Kawhi and PG?

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[ProfessaPackMan]

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I hope the Spurs hold off on it and/or gut the Lakers but at the same time, I hope other teams aren’t sitting around waiting for them to trade so they can make their moves.

Basically make y’all moves regardless if he’s traded or not.

[ojandpizza]

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They really don't though. Nothing is more tangible about right now than anything we got last year about Paul George. I'm too lazy to go tracking them down, but I wouldn't be surprised if they copy pasted some of these articles and tweets and just switched out the names involved from last year. This was the same kind of stuff going on. Paul George was heading to LA the whole second half of the season because he's from there. All the connections and signs pointed to George doing everything in his power to get to LA. Then it was a matter of Indiana wasn't going to trade him. Then it turned into him telling everybody that will listen that he's going to LA no matter what. Then it was Boston and Philadelphia having the better assets that Indiana would rather deal with to take him on and hoping to change his mind, but Indiana was going to engage in trade talks with LA because he'd made it known he would only re-sign with LA so "nobody was going to give up anything of value for a rental." They pumped up all the destinations he could go and kept hammering that it was going to be LA because that's where he wanted to go and none of them, not a single one of them mentioned OKC being a potential landing spot at all and next thing you know out of nowhere, George is headed to OKC on July 1st. The only thing different here is the LeBron factor, which is irrelevant, because Pop and RC couldn't give a **** about LeBron's decision.

Just feels like over the past 3-4 years now (not just PG) that most of the rumor mill going around about everyone running to the Lakers were more Stephen A Smith type of reaches, like him saying LeBron would visit with GS this off season, than it was Woj breaking the stories like they are now. And the PG thing was also a bit different, if he winds up in LAL this off-season they weren't even wrong. He wasn't a free agent at the time.

But that's not even really what I meant by my post anyways. I'm not saying the Spurs give a **** about LeBron's decision or would ever even consider sending him to the Lakers. I'm just saying the word that he, PG, Bron all possibly wanting to be there seems real this time around. For the last however many years now we've heard that every free agents wants to go there, could end up there, will strongly consider the Lakers, etc even when they were a dumpster fire team and none of them even ending up meeting with them, much less strongly considered signing with them. This doesn't have that vibe.

[Vni]

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Lakers with the young core and cap space do feel like a legit option this time around.

[areobee401]

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I swear some of y’all suck the fun right out of this time of year. We might as well delete our accounts and log off for good with the all restrictions as to what is or isn’t worthy of discussion.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I’m with King on this. Only reason it “feels real this time” is because 2 of them can be UFAs this year and 1 of them still has to wait another year before they can hit UFA but they don’t want to wait. And of course like Vni just mentioned.

If these dudes still had another year or 2 on their deals, then it wouldn’t really “feel real” either.

[jeremym480]

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Posting crap from ESPN because

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[The 24th Letter]

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I swear some of y’all suck the fun right out of this time of year. We might as well delete our accounts and log off for good with the all restrictions as to what is or isn’t worthy of discussion.

Fair point.

To be honest, I'm kind of bummed that seems we wont get any interesting free agent pitch meeting stories this year. I want to hear about how Mark Cuban brought out Dak Prescott and a Paul George ice sculpture to get him to sign...

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[Vni]

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I swear some of y’all suck the fun right out of this time of year. We might as well delete our accounts and log off for good with the all restrictions as to what is or isn’t worthy of discussion.

I have no issue with people being interested and/or posting the different rumours that are around. I'am just too tired to care or attempt to get into it lol.

I'am not even waiting for news, if they come good, if they don't come, good. I don't feel like the lakers should be desperate this time.

If i'am the front office I don't go all hollywood on the free agents. I tell them, this is what we have, this is what we want to do and how we want to do it. Do you believe in us and want to be a part of it?

That's it. No bilboards, no movies, nothing.