Funny if it wasn’t so serious

Watching all these website close tents on the Kyrie Irving to LA story is kinda funny. Things are written like “Nets are being stubborn” and “the Lakers have other options besides Brooklyn” all sound cute but totally obfuscate the truth that the Lakers have scraps to offer. Russ will be cheaper to buy out in a few months, our role players either didn’t play last season or shouldn’t have, and the picks are few and far away. Rob is, frankly, completely out of his depth. Far from a master class in team building but rather a lesson on how to look desperate while actually also being quite desperate. Honestly, the Lakers are lucky LeBron has non-basketball reasons to stay. I have no doubt that for all the favors Rob has done Klutch as GM if the team were to lose LeBron suddenly Anthony Davis, and any other Klutch Klient, would suddenly develop a strong and persistent opinion that they should be playing somewhere else. Rob has one move to make and it’s hard to not think he’s still, somehow, blowing it. If (which basically means when now) Russ starts the season in a Laker uni, Rob might be fired before camp concludes. Why? Because we will not be a good team. We might be worse than last season or marginally better, but not good. More likely is he gets you sit in His chair until closer to the end of next season but you never know. Anyhow, we got LeBron and AD so if we don’t bring back players on multi year deals for Russ we’ll be in decent shape next summer. One wonders if it will be Rob’s hand guiding the ship or maybe someone else?