Dwayne Wade to Lakers?

What the fuck happened to #MyLakers?????

Fuck Wade, he's Steve Nash part two. Have they not learned a damn thing? Use the #2 pick for a big, use the 27th pick (Jerry West style and take a chance on Robert Upshaw), or trade up from 27 with whatever it takes to get two top 5 (D'Angelo and whoever Minnesota does' t draft) picks and you have a strong nucleus with Randle, Mudiay or D'Angelo and a big man . Fuck Kobe and that look at me contract, let his ass go/walk or just GTFO in 2016. He's single handedly destroyed my Lakers over the past 4 seasons

Lakers Draft if they don't move

#27 for
Delon Wright, PG, Utah
Robert Upshaw, C, Washington
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, SF, Arizona

#2 for
Jahill Okafor or Emmanuel Mudiay

*Dwyane

I would imagine that all the lakers need to do is allow kobe to be kobe on this currently constructed team and it will be just like tanking!

Let kobe fire up 35 shots a game and get his $$$. Then walk away after next year. Everyone wins.

As RD said, go big in FA in another year after kobe is gone and you have a nice substantial amount of young talent.

Tequilla said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Tequilla said:

Jimmy Buss is an idiot ... Jeanie will be running the total show in 24 months.

What has Jeanie Buss ever done other than fuck Phil Jackson?

You mean besides running the business side of the Lakers and locking them into the super lucrative tv deal with Time Warner? Hard to argue that she's made any wrong call in that regard since Jerry Buss's death.

Hard to read any article with her and not see that she's sharp and Jimmy is an idiot:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12000240/lakers-owner-jeanie-buss-says-tanking-unforgivable

Lol at giving Jeanie Buss any credit for the tv deal. The Lakers were long established as a premier franchise before Jeanie took over. They got the tv deal because of the demand. Giving her credit for that is like giving Donald Sterling credit for having a franchise worth 2 billion.

She's social and knows how to play the media game better than Jim. Aligning with Phil Jackson helped perceptions as well. I really don't know what she has done to earn any praise.

Jimmy is on the basketball side and mostly cedes the decision making to Kupcheck. People hate nepotism and Jimmy likes to drink and drug. He's probably an idiot, but I've never understood why he gets all the shit and Jeanie gets a pass. It seems like media bullshit to me.

RoadDawg55 said:

RaceBannon said:

The Lakers are after Cousins and the 6th pick for the 2nd pick and the kid from Kentucky that was hurt all year

Getting Cousins would be a great move for the Lakers. The Kings might be the dumbest team in the league.

Let's not shortchange Jordan and the Bobcat, errr, hornets. The model of a franchise is letting jordan be your owner/GM when his barometer is whether he can beat a player 1-1

George Karl wants Cousins gone, but their owner Ranadive came out and said that's not going to happen. What a dipshit organization that is. Karl has a history of butting heads with his star players and Cousins already has attitude issues. Gee I wonder what could go wrong there?

Ranadive has already put a player above the coach, which in this case is accurate but that isn't something you make public. He's awful but he wouldn't even be an owner if Stern didn't want to fuck over Seattle again.

I've seen mocks that have Okafor going to the Kings at #6 ... if that's the case then you can assume that the Kings will be able to finally pull the trigger on Boogie Wonderland.

Hard to blame Boogie for being a malcontent in an organization who has an owner who has openly opined on whether or not cherry picking would be an effective NBA strategy.

espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13148737/sacramento-kings-owner-vivek-ranadive-considering-firing-coach-george-karl

Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive has considered firing George Karl, who was hired as coach four months ago to help turn around the struggling franchise.

"If you fire Karl, now you can't control Cousins because he'll know he's running the place," the source said. "Now he'll feel like he's telling you what to do."

Lol, nice. Karl gets $11 million guaranteed for 4 months of coaching.

Actually, I don't think it's that bad for the Lakers if they can get shit figured out here ...

If they can pull off Boogie for the #2 pick ... and even more so if they can pull off assets (including Julius Randle) to get the #6 pick back, that's the MASSIVE element that will spur their rebuilding.

What are the odds that Westbrook heads to LA when he's a free agent?

If they strike out on Boogie, what are the odds that they can lure Love? Particularly if there is a wink wink deal in the background for Westbrook in the future? If the Lakers get a big, I think Love heads to Portland. IF they don't, I think he heads to the Lakers.

Kobe's crazy contract comes off the books after this season and they can go after a huge piece at that point.

As long as Jimmy Buss does what he does best (be a rich guy that likes to party) and not interfere with the grownups, the Lakers will be just fine. I have 100x the confidence in Jeanie Buss to do the right thing given her background working for her father from the bottom up in his sporting empire while Jimmy was busy doing whatever it was that Jimmy was doing.

Upshaw to LA? at 27, Love to Lakers?