Reality begins to set in for the click bait crowd. Took ’em long enough…
Utah won’t be trading LM unless it’s for a “can’t refuse offer”. Unlikely the Lakers have one they can offer, if they even wanted to in the first place. Also it’s unlikely most teams see that as doing good business when they’d have to turn around and pay him a ton of money for what was essentially one good season. He could just as easily be the next BI where he does well enough on a bad team but either can’t stay on the floor or can’t win at the playoff level. Or both, since he hasn’t managed to get there on Utah.
Chicago “resigned” to starting the season with LaVine. So much for getting draft picks for taking him on? Honestly, Chicago might as well wait and try and rehab his value. They have this odd belief they’re on the cusp of contending. Which I don’t get at all.
Speaking of Mr. Ingram, BI likely to stay in NOLA. Again, not surprising. He took a step back and nobody is probably excited to offer him a multi year max contract and/or send NOLA the haul they likely feel entitled to for him in a trade. Might as well hold onto your picks and let the market dictate his value next summer.
Welcome to the new CBA, folks. Big contracts for under-performing players are the new albatross in ways we can only imagine to actual GMs. It’s funny when the league signs an incredibly profitable deal and the players probably won’t see the half of it in terms of salaries simply because they agreed to a max 10% cap growth every season. 15-20% probably would have made more sense.
Also, shout out to whomever owns TNT for suing the league when they rejected the match. Hard for Silver to arbitrate the oddity that is the Timberwolves not selling to the A-Rod group now since this is, basically, the same thing.
Gotta love the dog days man…
Oh, I almost forgot. Super awesome Laker “insider” Mr. Buha confirms that the Lakers have been shopping DLo with nary a taker in sight. Awesome. Like LaVine I’d cut that off at the knees, publicly declare the roster is fine as-is and sorry coach but we couldn’t lure Shaq out of retirement to be your bruising center and focus on February.
At least media day will be interesting. “Hey DLo, what’s your reaction to the Lakers shopping you all summer and nobody biting?” (DLo drops mic and walks away)
The good news Jamie is the Lakers have resisted going after the names that are out there. It’s funny, the Trailblazers were criticized for giving Jabari Grant that big 5 year contract. Then Dame leaves and that contract becomes even worse. There was speculation that the Blazers would have pay to get out of it. Enter the Lakers and they suddenly want 2 first picks along with the 3 contracts it would take. Two of those would be good players they could flip. In essence they want lakers to pay to get out of a crummy contract. Teams have been trying to screw what’s perceived as a desperate lakers team. Kudos to Rob for not doing something stupid like he did with Russ. It’s best to see what the team looks like after a couple of months.