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I didn't know Trout had knees
Longer -- AD is awesome, and can fit in with just about any team. It probably wouldn't be like a 4+ year stay, so it seems like we could figure out a way to fit his contract in now while so many of our young guys are still on rookie deals.
But I think the Lakers would want a player for him, and I don't think we will or should do that. They would do it for very high value draft picks, but we don't have a bunch of top tier "will probably/almost certainly be in the lottery" picks. Fair to project OKC's own picks won't be in the lottery, and the rest are pretty low % chances of being a top tier lottery pick. A lot of top 5 protections, some top 10 protections, and/or from teams that right now just don't look like they'll be in a position to turn into a top 5ish pick either. There's a chance! But long shots. Clippers seem very tentative year to year and I could see a mass exodus, but I don't see Ballmer hard tanking with the fancy new arena coming online.
That leaves SGA, Jalen Williams, or Chet to get him, and I don't see it happening, SGA is obvious. Jalen Williams is still way too unknown to a lot of people, but is absolutely ridiculous for a 2nd year player and is almost certainly a future all star. Chet is basically our entire (very effective) rim protection when he's on the floor, he fits the team really well because of that, Presti loves him, and the upside is pretty silly. Lu Dort has somehow gone from a defensive specialist/terrible shooter (in)famous for being left completely open from 3 in our bubble playoff series against the Rockets to shooting 40% from 3 on volume, and may be the best 3 and D guy in the league right now. He's on a super team friendly deal and I don't see him going either.
So that leaves Giddey, our picks, and a few high quality bench players on incredibly team friendly deals. I don't really see LA going for that without demanding so many picks that we say no, as the team friendly deals of Isiah Joe (thanks Philly) and Cason Wallace don't really help a tanking team despite helping us a lot.
My expectation is that the picks are going to be used to trade for high quality role players more than one big headline superstar. Eventually we have to worry about paying a lot of guys, and the picks + trading them around to get other players are what we need to build a roster around the big money deals. We do have cap space in the short term, but yeah not seeing how we get AD here despite it being a good fit.
Siri 452
Juan Soto 447
Pérez can donger both sides of plate
::Phoenix dangling Durant in a 3-way for OKCs picks enters the chat::
Like teats on a bull
the world is cruel sometimes lol
If that's not a thing then Bronny made a terrible decision in declaring for the draft. I mean, it was a terrible decision regardless, but it's an even more terrible decision without that motivation.
I think Bronny has 0 chance of "legitimately" being drafted, but he can still go back to college either way.
The Pelicans can take their 1st this year (though they will likely take next year’s and leave the Lakers with their own pick at 17)
The Lakers also have their 2nd
Bronny is around a 13th round talent
Agreeing up front to draft Bronny when you desperately need low-salary young guys is stupid
Do you have the balls to tell Lebron that you won’t draft him but will consider signing him as an UDFA? That risks Lebron dangling his free agency to someone else
Agreeing to it then allows other teams to fuck with you by saying they’ll draft Bronny before you can- very likely nobody would but that’s potentially a butt-puckering risk
That’s just with the picks- having a father and son on the same roster, with conditions/expectations, is 1) an HR nightmare 2) an inevitable drama-fest that will tear the team apart and 3) absolutely fucking horrible for Bronny, this whole thing has to be murdering his soul and self-esteem
Bronny has an agent without having to sign with an agent, ha, yeah
Like I've seen people say he could benefit from the scouts and analysis of his game he'll get from the pre-draft process, but I feel like he has access to that already? But what's more "nepotism" than trying to get that stuff for free when you could otherwise pay for it I guess.
It turns out MPJ is the least crazy member of his family by just being an anti-vax crunchy wackadoodle instead of that + *gestures to rest of his family*.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
angels also struck out 10 times so of the 54 outs 28 were strikeouts. pretty weird baseball game.
That's like a microcosm of the trend in stats the last 15 years. Between velo and spin-rate juicing/over training it's now normal for the league to have more strikeouts than hits per season. K/9 numbers are the highest they've ever been, league average is down about .030 compared to 20 years ago.
The hell with anyone touching Ted Williams/.400, you'll be lucky to see another George Brett or Tony Gwynn .380+ season again.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Pack it up, on to the next round.
That must have been so painful for him, given his well documented and thoroughly proven hatred of the 76ers.
I don't know Monty, Vaighn's carrying his left a little low, this could come back to hurt him in the later rounds.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I think our series start date is set either way, but wear each other out and give me some good games.
Also looks like Milwaukee/Indiana gets the fun 3:30 pacific start time today. Doc Rivers has a chance to do the funniest thing and lose with Giannis and Lillard after blowing them out without either last game, if they can make it back.
Who among us hasn't wanted to chuck a baseball at Siri, or Alexa, or Hey Google?
He’s maybe top of the list of players with the biggest gap between on and off court appeal.
Theyve combined for 3 shot attempts in 39 minutes of play. Crazy.