The gist of how Laker fans have been like on Twitter all summer: Simping hard - led by Stephen A Smith and Ice Cube.
If the NBA needs LA vs Brooklyn in finals every time to make $, then they have bigger problems. NFL be laughing their arses off. I still can’t believe the many millions that watch the NFL draft.
Free speech here, I can compare all I want. So yeah they do compare, both are sports. Unless they both are not sports you tell me
If we get Jaylen Brown in a Dame trade and Ben Simmons in a CJ trade then I say fuck it do it, both are under 24 and have superstar potential.
Laker fans think they can get Dame with Alex fucking Caruso as part of the deal. I thought this board was delusional.
THIS is the trade package we can't refuse? Seriously? This is the equivalent of the deal that we sent to Houston for Pippen.
SMH Philly would give us Simmons, Shake and their #28 pick. That's a 24 year old all nba level player, a 24 year old underrated starter and a first rounder... they might even give us their first rounder next season too. They would make losing Dame less painful but that Lakers offer is laughable and I think Wiseman, Wiggins, 7 and 14 isn't close to as good as what Philly could give us. Hopefully what Olshey is working on right now is moving CJ in a three way for a legit second option forward to play with Dame.
That looks like some of the garbage Fantasy Football trades some of the dudes in our league offer. They think offering a lot of garbage is fair because you are getting more players. Those dudes are scrubs.
Yeah, I think we could get Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart and a future first to pair Dame with Tatum. At that point with all of the defense that those two guys provide, that might be our only move we would make. CJ, Smart, Brown, RoCo and Nurk starting Ant, Nas, DJJ and a taxpayer MLE big off the bench. The problem is I think we'd just be back in the same position as we are now, making first and second round exits. Just better on D and not as potent on O. That being said there isn't a player on that roster that has the kind of cache Dame does to make demands about making the team a contender. That seems like a really fucking Olshey move that would seriously piss me off. Edit: Actually maybe Neil makes the Dame to Boston trade and then trades CJ to the Knicks for all of their draft picks this year (19, 21, 31) and then re-signs Norm. I think then we'd have room to use the full MLE which he could use a large portion to sign Nerlens Noel and the rest to sign Kris Dunn. We trade Ant for another first rounder in this draft and only draft defensive minded players. We'd go into the season with our only goal to be the best defensive team in the league. Maybe we'd run a full court press all game every game. Smart, Norm, Brown, RoCo, Nurk, DJ, Noel, Dunn, Nas, CJE and a bunch of rookie defenders.
