**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Did the Lakers trade MVP in the Westbrook deal?

 

[Lizakers]

2-10 start
Took us 62 games to dig out of that hole

Feels amazing
.500 this season in the west is like being a 3-4-5 seed any other season

.565 winning percentage the last 62 games

 

[aepps20]

THERE’S A PARADE IN MY CITY YEAAAAAAAAAH

 

[tupac003]

Hate the what if...but if we win the Mavs and Rockets game we would be tied for the 5th seed....

 

[darthska]

Not counting the games we lost this season, we're *checks notes* the best team in the league.

 

[Lizakers]

.667 winning percentage (12-6 record) since the day after the trade deadline

That’s the equivalent of a 55-win season

 

[sohi 23]

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Been saying Lonnie >>> Beasley

Lonnie is Shannon Brown

Beasley is Sasha Vujacic

One is multi-faceted, the other is one-dimensional

 

[drewsone]

great win
annoying.. cuz they made it close in the end
but good win
AD w/ 37 in a must-win.. cant say much else lol

SGA thought **** was gonna be sweet FOH lol

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

And now we are tied for the 7th seed.
2 games out the 4th seed.

Only 2 games out of 4th?

Eazy Peazy

 

[darthska]

Run it byke!

 

[sohi 23]

I know the season isn’t over yet, but I’ve loved the fight this squad has shown all year. They could’ve packed it up different times but they kept fighting thru bad roster construction and hella injuries. It makes it that much sweeter to finally see it all come together.

 

[pdino]

Lonnie was hitting 3s tonight. OKC would double AD and he'd pass out-->swing-->swing-->Lonnie open 3, knocks it down. Need guys to hit wide open 3s, and Lonnie came clutch. I like Vando, but he misses some bunnies at the rim, can't be trusted with layups . AR had a "bad" game (for him) against some tough wing defenders, but AD feasted on them.

Chicago plays fast paced small lineup, will be interesting to see the rotations as Ham will be tempted to go small

 

[rrickrude]

Finally made it to a game in I forget how long. Great Win!

 

[essential1]

If I may take my shirt off for a second.

Off-season has some pretty simple answers.

DLo 4 year / $120mil or so. That’s puts them at $25 or $27mil as a starting, the 4th year would be like $33mil.
Reaves whatever a 4 year deal looks like for him.

Buy out AD’s 2024-25 option, extend him for 3 seasons at whatever the new max is. He would be 2026-27.

Bron has technically 2 years left on his deal. I assume he fulfills them. Then signs a cheap deal wherever Bronny is.

Re-sign Rui for 3 years probably $10-12mi

Vando had 1 year $4mil. He probably ends up as an extension guy somewhere between $8-12mil.


Bron
AD
DLo
Reaves
Christie
Rui
Vando


There’s only 2 difficult questions:

Who do you use the exception on? Schroder or Wenyen.
Lakers will pick Schroder. But should pick Wenyen. (Not a slight at either. But you can find a good backup PG with limited resources far easier than a backup big. Reed’s $2mil and the second rounder could get you an okay backup PG most likely.

From there, how do you get value for Beasley and Bamba. Meaning trading for someone who can actually be a 3&D guy at the 2 or 4.
Something along the lines, Beasley/Bamba + 1st for Player and that teams first.

 

[had pants]

 

[htg designs]

We have enought to win it ALL. If everyone is healthy into the playoffs and through out. We can win it all. These games are a stress test. Squad aint perfect and chemistry and fully established, but we find ways to win more than we find ways to lose. And at full strength, our weak players have been tested and are already in playoff mode. We have an advantage of playing meaningful basketball already. Its hard to see with everything in flux but I wouldnt be shocked of we won it all.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

The roster is good enough but need to see them play at a higher level. This next game will be a good test

 

[atlsfinest]

1st team All Glass

d angelo buttshole

last thing we needed is another injury prone player

kyrie irving is playing tho

guess we really not getting to 500 today smh

go get kyrie man lmao

Can't believe you guys are watching what's going on in Dallas and genuinely saying "lets go get Kyrie". If we could be a D'lo+Beasley for Kyrie trade then go for it but signing Kyrie as a free agent could mean trading or renouncing the rights to basically every new addition we've made and we wouldn't be able to re-sign Raves.

If we get Kyrie, we'd be going back to having a team with 3 NBA rotation level players. Is that what you guys want?

 

[pmatic]

Don't know if I ever posted it, but if there was ever a future Laker it's probably Luka.

 

[atlsfinest]

 

[sohi 23]

Don't know if I ever posted it, but if there was ever a future Laker it's probably Luka.

I’ve always thought this too but never mentioned it out loud lol

 

[Lizakers]

OKC’s next 3 games are prob all wins

We gotta take care of both CHI games

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

This would be the last piece to fix all the mistakes of the President Magic era

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

I know the season isn’t over yet, but I’ve loved the fight this squad has shown all year. They could’ve packed it up different times but they kept fighting thru bad roster construction and hella injuries. It makes it that much sweeter to finally see it all come together.

That's all HAM and Staff

Don't tell that to the coaching non-believers tho lol