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The Lakers trade for Anthony Davis..

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  • judasdurantjudasdurant Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    I think butler wants to win first and foremost. Y’all remember how he left Minnesota? Lol 

    he could still win in philly though, it did take a game 7 buzzer beater for the nba champs to our them 
  • judasdurantjudasdurant Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Kemba has been scoring 25 a game for years and look at all the good it’s done him. This is his only chance to win, but money talks and the supermax May be too much for him to turn down. Probably will be around 240 mil this year
  • mantis_toboggan69mantis_toboggan69 Posts: 264 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
    WC. There’s a lot of teams reported to be making pushes to him. If the clippers miss on Kawhi, I think they might be his best option. I propbably shouldn’t have said “almost surely leave”. It’s just my personal opinion that he always thinks the next situation will be better than the last similar to Kyrie.
  • Dawgy_FreshDawgy_Fresh Posts: 895 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019
    Klay to join LBJ /s

    but maybe his dad played there. He is going to be in Space Jam 2. He’d be perfect fit. 

    But unlikely because he fits perfect as a Warrior. 
  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The Sixers still have room to grow without adding anybody. Just re-sign their 2 free agents. Simmons and Embiid are still pups. Next year could be their time .If Toronto loses Leonard they will drop back. Boston seems stalled. That would leave The Bucks and Sixers as the cream of The East.

  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Getting rid of Ball must have been the sweetener for the Lakers.   Lavar has already guaranteed the Lakers never win another title due to trading his son. What a clown.   
  • donmdonm Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019

    More likely that NO won’t win a title with Lonzo.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Getting the prince clown jerk of a father out of their hair was reason enough for The Lakers to move Lonzo. I suspect Lavar might have something to do with Magic deciding he didn't need that shiit in his life.

  • DGDinNYCDGDinNYC Posts: 748 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Pels were right to sit tight and not make the trade in the middle of the season. They maintained leverage and their leverage grew even more with injuries decimating GSW. The West became wide open and there was lots of pressure from Lebron & Co to make this deal happen now.

    Durant ha already moved his offices to NYC and I'd expect him to be a Brooklyn Net sooner rather than later. He no longer trusts GSW as his injury was publicly misdiagnosed as a calf when there were concerns about the achilles the entire time. His camp is upset that GSW didn't immediately rule him out, thus forcing external pressure for him to play, for the sake of making Toronto have to prepare for his comeback.

    Lakers will target Jimmy Butler, Kemba Walker and/or Tobias Harris. AD needs to waive a trade exception to allow them to get back under the cap to get another max guy but they will get creative to make this happen.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    DGDinNYC. Something really odd about Durant's injury supposedly being misdiagnosed. I was driving and listening to a couple of sport radio jocks the day before game 6. One of them said something about the calf injury, then he said ''wink, wink'' and followed it up by saying it was the worst kept secret that Durant really had an achilles injury. They went on to say that GS management knew it...WOW. I Don't see how they could have just guessed right.

  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    New Yorkers are dreaming.   I wouldn’t expect Durant to join the Nets real soon.   He has a player option for $31.5 million, which is likely insured by GS.   The Warriors can sign him to a Supermax 5 year deal at an estimated $220 million, or $38 million for next season, although that number cannot be insured.  I expect him to sit out most, if not all, of next season as a member of the GSW.  

    WC, Durant was injured in game 5, so yeah, it wasn’t much of a secret ahead of game 6 that Durant had an achilles injury.  😃
  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019

    Bankwalker. Of course everybody knew Durant was injured, but GS was calling it a calf injury right up to where the achilles blew completely out in game 5. I did misstate it as game 6 but the conversation by the radio jocks was prior to the achilles blowing out. So did management know as these guys claimed ? If not, why not when people outside of the organization seemed to know ?

    Stay tuned.

  • Casanova_FlatulenceCasanova_Flatulence Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    As a long time Lakers fan I like this trade, because it gives them a star player they can build around for the future. However, the key to this deal is to delay signing by 30 days to secure extra $5-6M, affording the Lakers the opportunity to sign another max contract player. The Lakers need a top quality shooting Guard to go with LeBron and Davis.

    Lastly, as much as I like the move, there's no question it's risky. They are giving up a lot of talent and youth to New Orleans. I wish they could have kept Josh Hart.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    C_F. it makes sense BECAUSE it's the Lakers. They don't have to depend on the draft like other teams. Elite players will want to play in LA, for the most glamorous team with 2 super stars. For evidence of their appeal, both Lebron and Davis chose them over pretty much every other team in the league.

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