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So with LABron (not since '96 with Shaq, have we nabbed "the" free agent) about to make his first public appearance and announcement as a Laker today, its a good time to look at our final books, some key upcoming dates and how the rest of 2018/19 free agency has gone so far. (All sourced material is from Spotrac.com)

LA is capped out and looking at about 106.5m in team salary (roughly 4.5m above the salary cap of 101.9m) for 15 players on the roster (not counting our 2way contracts of Caruso and Wear). We're roughly 17m away from the luxury tax threshold (123.7m) and roughly 23m away from the cap apron (aka hard cap of 129.8m). We are not in any danger of paying tax or being hard capped this coming year.

Also, we used up roughly all but about 1m of the room exception (4.45m) to sign Beasley. We used the vet min exception (1.5m will show on our books) to sign McGee (who will actually get paid 2.4m...

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1. Step One - Pick your favorite animal and a part of the body, and write them down somewhere.
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Out of respect to Eric, I won't post his entire article, but here's some notable quotes.

I don't think we discussed it much, or even at all, but this is part of us building a new winning culture.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ebrity-speaker-series-promote-culture-success

I really don't want to make this thread about 1 team, but seriously f*** the splash brothers...

With the additions of Rondo and Stevenson to our perimeter defense of Zo, Hart, KCP and the Kraken arms of BI, our perimeter D should be lit. Add in our Sasha doppleganger with the 47th pick and LA should be right at, if not better, than the 3rd place defensive ranking we got in holding opposing 3s to 34.6%. Only Boston (33.9%) and Philly (34.2%) did better. Also Stevenson helped the Pacers earn 5th overall and Rondo helped the Pelicans earn 8th overall in those 3FG% defensive rankings. And guess where the Pacers and Pels stood during the postseason? (2nd and 3rd,...