They pretty much traded this year's pick twice..lottery protected in the deal with Cleveland last year for Sessions...and unprotected in the deal in the offseason for Nash...can't really get too upset at the front office for that...definitely not retroactively after we were ready to have them knighted after both of those moves when they actually happened...what killed this team IMO was the vetoed CP3 trade fiasco and it's fallout, the lakers in all reality never recovered from it....the fatal mistake was not trading Pau and his contract for depth and/or athleticism...this year everything that could go wrong, did...they got one last chance to trade Pau high this summer after the Olympics, but kept him...only to discover he's absolutely finished and worthless making 19mil a year...traded for Howard but he has been a shadow of himself, not fully back yet to where he was before the injury...we expected a top 3 player and the best defensive player in the league, and have gotten just a solid center...a wash or slight downgrade from Bynum last year...injuries killed us....we've been trotting out flat out a talent depleted squad most of the year, despite the perception and expectation of "superteam"...our best bench player and trade piece in Hill just went out for the season...freaked out early, fired Mike Brown and hired a coach that's even worse for this team's personnel...top to bottom worst lakers season I've ever witnessed