2026-27 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

I don’t care what optimism you are selling here …. am NOT going to talk about your balls. Only Karacha’s today.

 

I think our offseason plan should have been to add to the team and push players further down the pecking order. So add two starters.

From that point of view, we replaced players in the same spots - it’s arguable if they’re better or worse - but we didn’t achieve our goal of becoming more competitive and getting to 8-10 playoff rotation pieces.

Right now Luka, Reaves, Kessler, Grimes, Mamu, Ayton and Sexton are clear playoff pieces. We’re probably missing a few extra.

 

Yes they Are. Remove Lebron add Luka. Why not? Its Rockets with no KD.

 

That totally ducked the question my guy.

 

Whats crazy to me is over the past 10 years Lebron was in the finals 1 time and now we cant be better without him with a more balanced team. It all depends on health.

 

I’m happy to call him our third option, I just think a defensive big like him should be the 4th best player on the team like a Gobert. If he gets played off the floor in the playoffs we are in trouble.

 

Ok ok counting 2016 2 times. But you get the point. The title no longer goes through Lebron. We have not prevented a good team from advancing past us in years.

 

Nobody has repeated in the West for 8 straight seasons now. It's tough out here.

 

Please don't...lol.

 

Last years team without Luka and Austin convincingly beat what is widely considered one of the best young teams in the league. Meaning a lot of the role guys stepped up big time and meaning they had chemistry.

I was really convinced we'd keep at least Kennard and Smart and I think we should have, considering for how little they signed. Rui I can understand moving on from since he probably wants closer to 20mil.

I think Smart in particular was like a defensive leader out there setting the tone and leading by example.

 

If you have a plane and you add a third wing does it makes it better? The only way we needed that version of Lebron is because of injuries the same of Luke K. If the team was healthy you dont need that. What you need is the big man. the wing the spark off the bench. Yes Lebron is still good enough to beat a depleted team. Now to answer the question. Could this team no Luka no Austin beat a hurt Rockets team? Why not If Sexton turns into a 25ppg and 6apg player with higher usage? walker 18ppg and 12rpg 3bpg? WE DID NOT BEAT THE FULL STRENGTH OF Rockets. If we did not face them we were going out in round 1.

 

You still tap dancing. I didn't say anything about who the Rockets had or didn't have. I simply asked if you think this bunch wins that series without Luka and Austin. Obviously you don't think so that's why you are deflecting all over the place.

 

Yeah I'm of the same opinion.

Which is why I like these moves if they were a bit cheaper + sending a couple contracts for the picks, allowing us to keep Smart + add Collins/Tobias/Rui. That'd would have made at least a B grade offseason, if not A-

I get that, especially for a guy so limited offensively, hard to be a 3rd wheel.

But we clearly built the roster with the vision of Kessler being the 3rd guy

 

Yeah, it does. The first two keep it afloat and the third is used for steering.

Hehehehe

 

What does it matter if this group wins that series? In what circumstance is that relevant?

https://x.com/i/status/2072492764630258016

 

Did you not see i said yes as Sexton Walker would step up in their absents. What you dont Think Lakers get to over 100 points without them? LOL. Now vs OKC were the games competitive or lopsided? So with Lebron was not even close. Yes we can beat a Rockets team with no Vanfleet, KD etc. even if we dont have Austin and Luka.

 

Smart was so unexpectedly great for us all year. I get it, he had an injury history before he came to us, but I still would have gambled on this for a few more seasons.
Kennard showed he was more than a shooter and I thought, would be a no brainer to retain.
Both went for very small deals.
I’m fine with tearing most of it down for younger players, but you can’t just have a team of mostly offense. We needed to add a decent defensive wing and sitting here hoping on a vet minimum wing to come and give us a fourth real starter just shows again, how unbalanced our roster is.

 

….. fire up that sciatica and rest the first half of the season again?

 

So Boston was like hold my beer Jaylon Brown for Paul George crazy. Tried to tell yall some things in this league is about money. They just wanted to get off of that Jaylon Brown money. They won a championship and that’s it.

Lebron has the media protecting him. Anybody but the Lakers. I was telling yall and peeling the curtain. This was Mark Walters. He wasn’t offering LeBron a contract. And they wanted to go younger and move off of LeBron. That just wasn’t going to happen.

as great as LeBron was here and he did win us the championship. Bought us Luka cause he got us AD which led to Luka.

and Mark wanted the Luka era. Lebron didn’t get the offer and didn’t get an extension last season. He did an amazing job and thank him for not making it a distraction all season when he knew he wasn’t coming back.

Boston I don’t know what they’re doing. Glad we have an owner who wants to win.

Why wouldn’t you get Moore athletes with Kessler I just don’t get it. Some of these were over pays. I guess Grimes was a request for Luka. I wanted Grimes he’s good. He can do alot. A good shooter and scorer. He’s gonna get his 35 minutes here you best believe that.

I just think the Lakers want to get younger. A lot of these moves will hinge on how good Cameron Carr and Adou Thiero develop. If they can become anything we think they can it will save these deals. Because that perimeter defense with Kessler as the goalie is huge.

 

I don't believe that. We don't even know what we have. Kessler and Sexton have never been to the playoffs. Grimes and the Wild Russian, have very limited experience, and even more limited production there. The playoffs aren't the regular season, and automatically assuming leaps from multiple players, isn't a great idea.