Could Lillard break up the Anthony Davis Lakers?

Anthony Davis will be a free agent and the Lakers traded away half a decade of young assets to get him.

Could he bolt as a free aegent if the team has a bad playoff loss and no good way to add future talents?

Dame broke the OKC team last season. Some say he basically broke the Harden Dwight Rockets team with 0.9

Can he break up that ugly purple and piss team? Id love to see it.

 

And maybe AD will pull a KD and come join the team that beat him. Haha

 

Please. I would love it. But also, if he does can one of those stars come to our team for once. I'm tired of Dame breaking teams up only for them to bolt to another super team somewhere else.

 

Supposedly Dame and AD are close. God it would be nice to steal him from LA.

 

Nope, don’t get your hopes up

 

It would make up for a lot of Shaq/Kobe heartache.

I think it would also be funny to see LeBron go through his amazing career through four eras, only to find himself ending it on what is essentially the 2003 Cavs. The perfect bookend.

It'd also be interesting to see what would happen in the context of the Clippers winning the championship. If the Clips go on to several years of dominance while LeBron has his Jordan-on-the-Wizards swan song, would LA give up on the Lakers? How much of being a Lakers fan is the storied history, and how much of it is just the glamour of competitive basketball in LA?

 

Thought for sure this was a homer KS thread.

 

But after we get AD I dont think the Clips win any championships....

 

Silly assumption. NO would probably tender a league minimum offer saying “We’ve got our second superstar in CJ!”

 

How much cap space can the blazers possibly have for next season if they went all out for AD?

 

Great player, amazing leader even better person but no

 

We can't sign a max level player, we could only acquire one through a sign and trade.

 

Lots of salary money needed for both to make a trade work and LA would likely demand Nurkic as a part of it, which would be a bad idea, , and cap-wise more players have to be added. Too risky for Davis being on an expiring contract after next season unless an extension is agreed to this ... Fall? Winter??

What is the NBA schedule for a 2020 offseason? Draft, Free Agency, contract status for players, FA negotiating window?
No clue when these are, right?

 

We have $4.8 million of our salary cap for 2020-21 locked up with dead money on Andrew Nicholson and Anderson Varejao contracts that Neil waived and stretched years ago. That was such a dumb short sided move for a team that wasn't a title contender at the time.

If we didn't have those contracts we could trade away all of Collins, Little, Simons, Hezonja, Hood and Ariza to a team with cap space, then have enough cap space to just sign Anthony Davis around a max contract. A core with Lillard, CJ, Nurk, Trent then sign Davis as the final starter, then use the Room MLE to sign a 6th man, sign a couple vet minimum guys to fill out the bench. Use a few picks from trading away that first group to get bench help.

I don't know if I would like to root for Davis to join our team in such a manner... it would be like rooting for a pathetic weak competitor of an NBA star as we saw in Durant. I guess we aren't a 73 win team... but still just seems weak for AD. Maybe he could instead join a young talented team such as New Orleans.

Neil could try to trade away the above group and try to sign another top free agent such as Gordon Hayward if we feel like he would be that 5th starter to make us a contender. I'd think maybe Hayward signs a 4 year deal starting at that roughly $28 million we could get to. But that is a lot of money to give up and we are losing all those rookies with upside.

 

zero point zero

 

Step 1 of 4 complete.

 

I am very curious about what will be in the end. I am also going through the divorce process now and it is extremely stressful. At first, I thought I would get over it easily but I realized that it is not so easy. I tried to somehow reconcile and return the relationship, but it didn't work and I don't think it was a very good idea either. Now I try to get over it and read a lot about personal development and tips and tricks on how to get over it. The last thing that inspired me was https://breakupangels.com/author/nicole/ and I was really impressed.