Trade Deadline: February 6, 2025

Which is what most of us in here were advocating for. Get rid of the vets who aren't proven winners and go all youth.

We would have sucked royally last season and probably at least most of this season.

They just didn't call it "tanking" back in the day. But they certainly tanked for Duncan.

 

lol

https://bsky.app/profile/fredkatz.bsky.social/post/3lhpk4rcody2f

[KATZ] The Mark Williams trade has been rescinded, Lakers say.

 

Did he fail the medical?

 

must have. he had issues

 

Fuck the lakers

 

Lakers' trade for Hornets C Mark Williams rescinded due to 'failure to satisfy condition'

 

Post of the day

 

Yeah, The Admiral was supposed to be back with about 20 games left and they sat all of there other good players.
The post you were replying to would be like someone saying that we didn’t tank any of the last three seasons, we just had an insane amount of injuries.

 

the Lakers are 1.6M below the 2nd apron so it might be legal for them to sign a pro-rated vet minimum deal.

there are some UFA C's available:

Ibou Badji
Bismack Biyombo
Moses Brown
Damian Jones
Boban Marjanović
JaVale McGee
Mike Muscala
Tristan Thompson

Omer Yurtseven and Robin Lopez too

 

How about this...
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...eal-nixed-williams-fails-physical-sources-say

So I guess Knecht will still be on the Lakers and they won't be sending those draft assets.

 

Are the Lakers kicking themselves that they didn’t give the Blazers what they wanted for Rob Williams?

 

No - since Rob only lasted 8 minutes before injuring his knee, and played 0 minutes two evening before that - I'm sure the Lakers are happy to keep the unprotected FRP that Cronin demanded.

Cronin should regret not taking the pick with protections or Knecht.

 

So... basically the Hornets prevented the Lakers getting any one of the very available centers on the market. Nice.

 

Truly a murderers row!

Hey, maybe they can play Austin Reaves there so he can get minutes when Luka takes his spot.

 

We really should have dumped jerami grant to them when we had the chance. Instead he’s screwing us over

 

At least Cronin doesn’t think we’re one Tony Snell away…

 

At the beginning of his time as our GM Joe said that our team would never be content with just struggling to make the playoffs and that doing that doesn't make sense. He said what does make sense (even while pissing away the prime of one of the three greatest players this franchise has ever had) was to either attain the highest draft pick possible or contend. Joe said at that time that the biggest mistake a team can make is to be caught in between. Right now we're definitely in between.

Now he owes it to the players to let them "see this through"? It may be a mandate from our non ownership group or in particular our seemingly most meddlesome non owner Bert but any way you slice it, it goes completely against a philosophy Joe once had, that in my opinion is the only way to keep small market teams out of purgatory.

 

I agree with every single thing you just posted.