BREAKING: Pelicans agree to trade AD to the Lakers
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I wonder do they re-sign him. I’m not sure if there’s a place for him and Zion. It was cool when he was getting 9 million a year. But at 25 or so?
Not if he wants to be a full time starter and not play center....
The Celtics, Nets, Pacers, Portland, Denver, Mia.. would be good fits...
He's great third option and energy guy for a lot of teams..
Well Randle can step away from the basket, so that can work...he’s kinda a smaller 5 but is very physical in the post to bang with the best....so it can work if they want it to....but at that price is the key...
Its funny cause Randle and Zion from the Videos I've seen are not that different when it comes to how they ball. The only difference is Zion is younger, has a higher ceiling, but he's a bit short to be a star PF at 6'7.
Agreed
These are who i look at...
Of course Kawhi
And kemba and jimmy
Klay and kd aint leaving but you can ask
If kyrie was smart...
But to keep the money right?
Surrond those 2 with SHOOTERS???
Beale
Bojan
Danny Green
Terrance ross
JJ
Brogdon
Khris middleton
And seriously?
D'Angelo Russell
Insanity but...
If JR Smith will take minimum
Hell maybe even DWade?
@largebillsonlyplease am i nuts?
But he don't need ALL that.
Look how Masai did it.
Ainge WASTED talent by stock piling and mismanagement
Treating players like "assets"
Lebron AD green Kuzma and solid pg?
You got beale, green and bojan and robin lopez?
Or reasonable facsimiles.
You good to go.
They need defense, depth and shooters.
Thats it.
Lol @ listing most of the coveted free agents and saying not all that
Let's not talk about Masai cause he traded for a top 5 player
Then made other trades to get other all star caliber players
And he's done that multiple years in a row
Awww man at this point it’s chanpuonship or bust. They should win a ring next year with Warriors out the way.
I don't know league well enough to name bench players that can still give you solid defensive effort and shooting.
My point is its THERE.
Especially when you have those 2 major pieces
Masai BEEN nice trust i know he bent over the knicks a few times.
But they can LEARN from that cause now LA got 2 top 10 players
And need to build around them.
And NOW is the time
You can't let the warriors reform like Voltron in that new arena in 2 years.
Its like when Jordan retired
They got a tight window that is about to be shut.
They had the pieces to build around him and traded them
That's not what they're trying to do
We'll see as free agency approaches what happens
We have no idea what kind of gm snake rob is so I'm not saying he'll be good or bad
But it's lightweight disrespectful to compare him to the brother who clearly knows what he's doing as in "all you gotta do is like this"
Which unfortunately is probably what snake rob is thinking
I wrote that wrong
I would never dismiss what that brother did
You saw i went in on the "genius" of Ainge
What i meant was Lebron and Rich showing rob the blueprint, Masai did too.
Now time for that man to put up or shut up
No Magic scapegoat
My point is they got 2 all time greats and over 30 mil cap space.
With a mid level exception
And a fertile free agency pool
And ALL teams willing to deal.
Rob its on you...
I don't know where you heard all teams are willing to deal from cause they have nothing to deal now lol
With Durant injury completely upheaval mode for free agency...
Teams gonna be in win now mode.
And like i keep telling you...
Not everyone can handle that luxury tax like golden state can..
Who was Ainge gonna trade for? He traded for Kyrie and then dipped.
Houston? Portland? Denver?
None of them have a big man who can compete with AD. Denver is the only one but Joker isnt quick/athletic enough to hang with AD. and just like Joke, AD can shoot from the outside and pass but his defense isnt up to par. Houston/Portland rely on a 1-2 punch from their PG/SG so you better hope you shoot 75%+ from the outside cause aint no bringinit inside, neither have a big man for AD and please dont bring up Capela cause he's trash. What my Lakers lack is depth but like other mentioned, if we can get players like a Danny Green, Tobias Harris, etc then its all good. We shall see what happens with Kemba/Butler. But Im not worried about Portland/Houston. The only real threat is Denver.
LA might fuck around and sign Boogie to a 1 year deal cause aint no team bout to give that nicca the max. Then we gonna have the twin towers down below like the old Spurs days.
I can't disagree with anything you said
I think the blueprint in how to defend those teams has been shown. We know Antoni can't adjust.
What are u conceptualizing about me being suspect and @killagram
Waste of time. Would also be terrible for competition with KD out and GSW being dead and buried.
Houston seems to be imploding.
Blazers are a all star away from being a real threat.
Denver is the tricky one. Denver to me just doesn’t have anyone scary. I guess Jokic would be that guy but I don’t know. I think they need to find a number one to go along with Jokic.
None of them can say they got the two best players in the league though.
I agree but we been down that path before with Boogie and AD. I don’t think Boogie taking no small deal again. They gonna have to use they cap space to get him.
If Butler leaves I would like to see the Sixers pickup Randle at the 4 and Marcus Morris or Rudy Gay at the 3.
Boogie to Boston if Al Horford walks
Pelicans’ AD is a problem. Laker’s AD will be a spot up shooter. You have no 3 point shooting, so if the Rockets threes are falling, Lakers will be toast.
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I STILL dont understand who all these picks the Pelicans got from the Lakers gonna work with all the restrictions protections and swaps.
I thought all the pick they were stockpiling was for AD?