A contender? Nah, they've improved on paper to be sure, but I'd still take five teams in the west over them.
This about ownership now. There owners don't care about luxury tax and and right there are the ones that are aggressive right in this trade deadline. Then there owners like ours not so much.
Dude can move, he blocks shots, he can shoot from outside and dude can move. We should have wanted him. He can't get minutes because of Carter Jr. and Wagner... no one on this roster could sniff minutes in the Magic post.
Yeah, they'll avoid the play ins if they can stay healthy enough to. They'll be a tough out in the first round or an easy out in the second.
That is bullshit. He has had some good games. He has some skills and some mobility. He is just too small against bigger centers.
He has 38 blocks in 40 games this year. I heard he was not as good as he should be considering his length. Time to give Badji some minutes to see what he can do.
Yes some teams understand it and give out reasonable contracts. The Lakers have exactly zero contracts guaranteed right now in the 2025/2026 season and only two player options (Lebron/AD) in 2024/2025. They're able to keep getting mercenaries every year on short contracts that are easy to trade when/if they have to upgrade. Beverly's 13m expiring is going to be tempting for someone. Portland on the other hand keep handing out four+ year contracts to Little, Simons, Nurk, even Payton gets 3 years. Constantly overpaying because that's the only way to get anyone. Until we learn that it all starts with stars in this league and that we need to do what Phoenix did yesterday, Lillard will never have a contender around him. Worse case we swing for the fences, fail miserably, and get the exact number of championships we'd have gotten anyway- zero.
