Real

Not a Bron or Lakers fan but I'm glad to see him cement his status as the G.O.A.T. Real ones knew and never needed the validation of another chip to understand Bron is the greatest to ever do it Congrats to him and L.A., R.I.P. Kobe

Depends if DArren Collison tryna comeback too

y’all are gonna see how many vets are gonna want to play for us now, chasing rings.

also, one of Kuz or DG won’t be on the team next playoffs.

ALSO, THT GETTING ROTATION MINUTES. QUOTE SCREENSHOT WHATEVER, 100% HAPPENING

Dudley tryna comeback so bad to be 15th bench man, said he’s gonna beg Pelumi’s, don’t think k it’s worth having him around to ride the bench again

vet minimum and he was one of the most important locker room guys, should just keep him

i don’t really mind Rondo moving on if that’s what he wants to do. if he re-signed he’d just be a headache all regular season again and then probably back to a contributing factor in the playoffs, but still injury prone and one year older.

Might be best for him to move on and get paid one last time by somebody else, he did his job and delivered us a ring, and i take back all the slander even though it was fully warranted at the time, i just didn’t know he was the biggest troll walking the planet

Cousins will be back and Cacok is the 3rd string 5 going forward (i hope)

Locker room glue guy for minimum salary, I have no problems at all

Same but that prolly depends on the signings we make and if we good enough to have a constant Dnp-cd, feel like that should be the last signing

Fair thought process

The sail has shipped, I don’t think he’s coming back at all

AB / Rondo
Dipo / KCP / Caruso / THT
Bron / Morris
Davis / Gallinari (assuming he takes MLE)
Howard / Cousins

Dipo trade for Kuzma and DG. Gallo takes MLE. Not sure if this would even work salary wise overall. Lowkey tbh losing a 6'7 Danny to be a body out there for perimeter defense kinda hurts our defense overall since he could at least guard some wings

Dudley Bill Simmons podcast is a good insightful listen

and no i dont always listen to simmons podcast

Yeah was nice, BS still annoying as s*** tho

Add Cacok, Korver or Courtney Lee, and Wes Matthews and we repeating

Bottom line is this, I doubt these players seek out new contracts from other teams.There's only 4 teams that have 15 million + in cap space, they are all trash.

Can Rob convince Rich to have KCP opt into his option and save the Lakers some money long term? Rob wants money in 2021 so I don't see him handing out huge contracts this summer.

Kuzma will have to stay unless we find a player worth his skill that is equal in contract size, unless he's packaged with DG of course. We'd probably want to find a guard with an expiring contract - Oladipo.

Goran (MLE), Rondo (player opt)
Bradley (player opt), THT
KCP (player opt), Danny G
LeBron, Kuzma
AD, Howard (vet min), Cousins (BAE)

A Waffles can dream.

It really was, had a friendly tell me to listen even though we both hate Simmons and he brought up a lot of good points about what the team really thought about the Clippers, AD’s growth and the effect he had on LeBron, etc.

and Rondo’s IQ and the Dwight stories lmao

should Dudley be on the roster next year

As a 15th man making minimum salary he wouldn't hurt and that's really all we can ask for. Hardly ever gonna be days where the 15th man has to play anyway, so might as well keep a guy that's great for the team dynamic.

I think vets will recognize that they have options this season. Like they did last season.

They aren’t some overwhelming presence like MIA or GS was. Or CLE(Certain factors played a role in this) was for that matter. They’ll be able to read the room and get on in places like GS, BOS, LAC, DAL, etc...& be competitive. LAL won this year but nah lol

There’s a lot of good teams right now.

Dudley needs to switch to the coaching role. He can be a player development coach. He wants to switch into that role anyways, might as well do it now.

This works too, I'd like to have him back just off the positive impact he has around the team. Let me put it this way, when was the last time you've seen a LeBron James team have zero in-season drama? Usually you have the early season acclimation periods, then around January/February, right near the trade deadline you have the rumors of in-fighting leading to LeBron sending out a passive-aggressive tweet. We didn't have any of this lol. If we can keep the good mojo flowing, by all means.

Exactly. They looked like legit buddies on and off the court. You're right, that has never been a LeBron theme'd team.

This off-season will be interesting between the contracts, who wants to come here and our coaching staff. I'd like to keep Kidd, Handy, Hollins if possible.

I'm surprised Kidd hasn't interviewed elsewhere.