It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

that was the best lakers team of my lifetime

AD is easily a top ten player in the league. but you can't get full value out of bron and AD by surrounding them with G-leaguers. I guess magic is thinking he can sign some ring-chasing vets on the cheap.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:05 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah they would be in the market for pretty much anyone getting bought out and then this summer they'd have to re-tool the whole roster.

call me crazy but no single player is worth 3 starters and 2 1st rounders

it's an idea so crazy that it just... might... fail

he's worth that if they dont value any of them as having all-nba level talent.

celtics can still offer more

i mean theyve got possibly four first rounders this year, and a player whos way better than anyone the lakers are putting out there

never know what organizations value tho

atm, the conley + gasol to raptors rumor seems almost as intriguing as all the AD in exchange for half the Lakers roster jabber

injury prone vet for injury prone vets

yeah thats really some swinging for the fences shit by the raps, have no idea why the griz wld be interested in those players tho

has marc gasol even been good since the first 2 months of the season?

no he’s been really really bad. like a 50% ts since december

that’s what i thought. weird conception of a deal.

What could it be that caused the lakers to lose by 42 points...

yeah it's over pic.twitter.com/5zOfArs48h

— Ahmed/NBA is scared of Bron and Rich Paul (@big_business_) February 6, 2019

Lebrons worst loss. If they don’t get AD then we may have a playoffs without lebron.

Lebron is max messy drama rn lmao

The Lakers lost by 42 points tonight and things are clearly tumultuous in the locker room, yet LeBron just posted this on Instagram... pic.twitter.com/yEMVI502Vk

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) February 6, 2019

Also the lakers traded someone I’ve never heard of for Reggie Bullock who automatically becomes the best shooter on the team

feel like lebron needs to face himself as a person who went to the lakers with a bad plan

The plan was kinda ok but then they signed/added only knuckleheads who can’t shoot. And clearly he hates dealing with young guys and refuses to be patient.

idk kinda think he got rolled by magic

Seven of his teammates are closer in age to his son than to him.

Not to mention his coach was in his draft class.

It's all weird. And I'm happy about it.

I think he was going to LA no matter who the gm was. Magic a helluva salesman tho obv.

lebron putting up that thing on instagram is basically the "posting just to be petty" meme come to life

Magic def (publicly) promised another star FA last summer tho. Paul George’s choice looks better every day.

feel like maybe magic and bron are on the same side of a cultural divide

feel like lebron needs to face himself as a person who went to the lakers with a bad plan

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it would really be a sort of justice if lebron missed the playoffs imo as his punishment for this corny private equity third act of his career, yeah I said it

yeah i pretty much agree

love 2 beat la

Kev otm.

yeah no sympathy if you can't win enough games to make it, though magic is presumably also responsible, for picking out that miserable and uncomplementary set of vets to sign after lebron was on board. bron and role players should be able to make the offs

https://deadspin.com/pacers-fans-taunt-brandon-ingram-with-ruthless-lebrons-1832377749

Sources: Clippers and Sixers have agreed to trade Tobias Harris, Boban Marjanovic, Mike Scott for Landry Shamet, Wilson Chandler, Mike Muscala, 2020 first-rounder, 2021 unprotected 1st via Miami and two second rounders.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 6, 2019

damn

elton brand is insane!

simmons-redick-jimmy-tobias-embiid is kind of a ridiculous line up but still... shamet is a first round rookie so they essentially traded 5 picks for tobias harris!

also those are basically their only players

for a half season of tobias harris

why are the sixers acting as if their team is going to implode if they don't win the championship this season

this trade is completely insane? i kinda feel bad for sixers fans

the crash landing from hinkie to colangelo to elton brand has been harsh

thats 4 all star level players in the starting lineup. probably all brand has in his sights.

warriors brass shoulda never let jerry west go

damn that's weird

it's true but there's also diminishing returns at a certain point. not only are you trading 2 first round picks for a half season of tobias harris, you're trading 2 first round picks for a half season of tobias harris on a team where he has to share the ball with jimmy butler, joel embiid and ben simmons

how is this a real trade

yeah and jimmy is still figuring out how to fit in... and now they add another new major piece.

any way you slice it between the four of them you're diverting the ball away from a player you've heavily invested in be it in draft capital, trade capital, salary whatever. maybe ben simmons' shots go away but then you've turned your first overall pick who is an all star into a glorified version of mbah a moute.

and that's to say nothing of the other 8 guys on the team who might want to shoot the ball from time to time