The Show Must Go On: 2013-14 Los Angeles Lakers thread

[Regular_P]

is our best case scenario 6th pick?

teams we won't pass: utah boston milwaukee orlando philly

Utah's gonna finish with a better record than LA. Boston, Milwaukee, Orlando and Philly are gonna finish higher in the lottery though. Just gotta hope those ping pong balls bounce in our favor. The team with the worst record rarely gets the #1 pick.

 

[#StarkSet]

Kobe an @sshole for that contract.

we could have signed 2 max FAs

I bet he went into a meeting expecting a fight


And they were like take 50m for 2 years


He was probably like

 

[GreatestLaker]

Blame Cokehead and Cupcake for offering it.

Exactly. No other team could offer anywhere near close to that. They didn't even see him play after coming off major surgery. They could have at least waited till the summer. They had all the leverage and still fukked it up.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Utah's gonna finish with a better record than LA. Boston, Milwaukee, Orlando and Philly are gonna finish higher in the lottery though. Just gotta hope those ping pong balls bounce in our favor. The team with the worst record rarely gets the #1 pick.

Except Cleveland. That rat dan gilbert always trotting his disabled son around for Stern's sympathy.

 

[Hater]

Except Cleveland. That rat dan gilbert always trotting his disabled son around for Stern's sympathy.

Which is why we should send a child that's terminally ill to the lottery. This will guarantee us a top 3 pick.

 

[gho3st]

One team already reaping the benefits of new TV money on the local level is the Los Angeles Lakers. The 17-time NBA champions rank second with a value of $1.35 billion, up 35% from last year. The Lakers earned $122 million from local TV last season, which marked the first year of the team’s massive 20-year, $3.6 million deal with Time Warner Cable TWC +0.55%. The Lakers’ Time Warner payout last season was more than 20 times what teams like the Bucks and Bobcats generate (see “The NBA’s Richest Local Television Deals“).

The cable money pushed the Lakers’ revenue to a record $295 million, net of revenue sharing. The team’s revenue sharing bill is roughly twice the size of the tab for the Knicks, who get a break due to their $1 billion investment in Madison Square Garden. Even with revenue sharing and a $29.3 million luxury tax bill that accompanied the NBA’s highest payroll, the Lakers turned an operating profit of $66 million, second highest in the NBA.

 

[#StarkSet]

Good they can eat that tax and sign both melo and love


Would only be for a year

 

[GreatestLaker]

Good they can eat that tax and sign both melo and love


Would only be for a year

They can't. Lakers only have one max slot left. Kobe's contract basically accounts for 2 max slots.

 

[Hater]

Man.. y'all hear Jimmy Neutron on the radio saying Embiid is basically another Hasheem Thabeet? I'm so sick of this fakkit why is he employed by the Lakers? I mean seriously what does he do other than ask stupid ass questions?

 

[GreatestLaker]

Man.. y'all hear Jimmy Neutron on the radio saying Embiid is basically another Hasheem Thabeet? I'm so sick of this fakkit why is he employed by the Lakers? I mean seriously what does he do other than ask stupid ass questions?

Why because they are both African? He is an idiot.

 

[MoneyTron]

Pau has been beasting these past few games. Excellent.

 

[Hersh]

can we make a move for a melo /love now.. and keep the tank on course?

 

[GreatestLaker]

can we make a move for a melo /love now.. and keep the tank on course?

How is that possible? We have no assets.

 

[gho3st]

Pau has been beasting these past few games. Excellent.

sounds to me like those extensions numbers are going up.

 

[MoneyTron]

sounds to me like those extensions numbers are going up.

Do the Lakers have to offer?