Lakers offseason thread: Renovation era

Imgine if he was in the 03 draft

  • 3 titles by now?

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  • Nobody has been better since he was drafted

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pete clemenza

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PTBG...what you posted is something that Lakers fans need to look very closely at.


Bynum is a restricted free agent after the 2012-13 season, he will command the max, so Pau has to go one way or another.

Kobe is set to make 28 and 30 mil over the next two years :damn: Gasol 19 mil and 19 mil :damn:

You cannot afford 3 max players. The way things are going the Lakers may be done by 2013.
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Yea, thats what I'm worried about, but I'm confident that we can trade Pau and get the best available assets for him and just go from there. I wished we can reconstruct Kobe's contract, cuhz he is getting paid too much and is taking up our cap space though. Right now, the key thing to do is trading Pau and go from there, even if its a trade in which we might not get the better end of the stick, but we gotta trade Pau cuhz we have to max out Andrew, and just go from there.

Kobe was selfish for doing that if you ask me. There is no doubt he was thinking about being the only 2nd player with :mjpls: to make 30 mil in one season. If he was smart, he should have taken a paycut going into the final years of his career to add another player and go for 7 titles then retire.
 

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Kobe's contract was signed BEFORE the new CBA. It wasn't an issue then. Plus keep it real, most people watch the lakers for KOBE, go to lakers games for KOBE, when someone says lakers they think KOBE. Yall know how much revenue he brings to the Lakers? If there was no Kobe, then that new tv deal would pretty much be irrelevant cause who would watch for Bynum, Sessions, or MWP lol? I'm not saying me, seeing how i'mma Laker fan first, but that's just the general public view. Jim Buss said he's really underpaid since he brings almost 70 million to the Lakers.

If we can get Dwight, Gasol can go for 2 or 3 quality players. shyt, maybe we can get Lowry and Royce White from Houston. White is like a poor poor man's Lebron.
 

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If LA deals for Dwight, Gasol needs to go for 2 or 3 players.

I'd be elated if they could swap him for Smith and Marvin Williams. Is that what they asked for and ATL said that was too much?

Those guys would be a perfect compliment to Howard up front.
 

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There aren't words to describe how I hate David Stern! The rejected CP3 trade for "basketball reasons" really fukked us over. Think about it for a second, we got to the 2nd round of the playoffs with Ramon Sessions playing like he never made a jumper in his life. And now our grand scheme is to re-sign this f@ggot! We would have been in so much better shape with CP3 under contract this year while getting rid of Pau's contract and we have more cap room for this season.

Have we tried to get Houston back on the horn to work on a Scola, Martin, filler deal for Gasol?
 

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the lakers will go into next season with Pau and Bynum in uniform, and virtually the same roster they had this year +/- some meaningless FA's that wont make much of a difference in the grand scheme

:laugh:

RIP
 

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I got traded.. This girl I was dating traded me for this Dominican cat because he had more swag
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?

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Im reading on laker ground that if Dwight is traded to lakers, Brooklyn wouldnt have capspace to sign him, and if he signed with another team he'd lose 30 mil due to bird rights.

Is the gamble worth it if all that is true?

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