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

pissing off owners is rarely a positive thing. He has now gotten into this with at least three teams. I am leaning towards moving off him. He is going to cause problems within the team structure. Not going to be good.

 

Kaminga is a 20 point scorer away from the Warriors starting. Look what he did when Jimmy Butler got hurt. Look at his stats. The guy is so skilled. He’s a greyhound running. James Worthy esque. The key is keeping him engaged. Getting rid of Ayton you have to replace that with Kaminga. Ayton was the perfect backup with Kessler. We rushed that move. We can talk pouting all we want. But going from Kessler to Ayton was perfect. Better get Kaminga.

This is a leverage play Kaminga has leverage. He knows we need him. His agent is a moron.

if someone offered me 30 million and I wanted 35 million. I’m taking 30 million. That 30 million still puts me in a tier of 30 million. I’m not tripping off the 5 million. I still have 30 million. That’s some dumb s***. Dennis Schroeder s***.

What players don’t realize today from a financial aspect is that owners teams don’t want to shell out big money. Kaminga take the money. Take the deal this is a good team.

Kaminga makes our roster more balanced. And honestly we need more scoring losing LeBron and Hachimura. Facts.

Lebron what a vanity play. I’m going to call him vanity. The sad part is teams don’t want him. And Rich is trying to make it seem like LeBron is the top free agent price. These teams could care less if they get him. The dog and pony show is not the same when he was 24. This is a 42 year old aging superstar trying to have one more shot of teams dancing for him. When he came to the Lakers he just came and it was Lakers Philly.

is this what he wanted here??? Teams pitching on voice note???what a joke. It was always Cleveland and Warriors. The Warriors would be happy to not get him. Lindenborg looks like the real deal. So awesome let’s stunt his development for a season of LeBron ball washing.


Yall talk about how good the teams will be. You still gotta play defense. Embiid and Lebron in a front court???? Yikes.

Philly would be good. The Knicks will still beat them. Cleveland I just don’t see it. I saw a team that got run off the court.

James Harden and Donovan Mitchell can’t guard anybody. And it’s a joke you add LeBron teams might put 180 on them. Between Mobley and Allen they’ll be in foul trouble when teams are going at them.

these are teams players LeBron is seeing back east

Cunningham
Tatum
Gianiss
Brunson
OG
Leonard
Quickly
Banchero


So let him have the Cleveland retirement party.

Rich Paul is a joke. Making money off lebrons back. He was a DEI agent. Yeah I said it. And now he’s trying to cosplay as Scott Boras or Bill Duffy with a little Jerry Mguiewre


He has a podcast. The s*** that was going on with this team behind the scenes is a joke.

I’m watching summer league to look at Carr and Adou Thiero. We’re gonna need these guys bad.

Kessler is a force at Center blocking shots altering but being the presence in the middle. I hope we see the guys together at summer league.

Clippers Wagler man I see it at Summer league right away. He couldn’t get his shot off and he couldn’t get around guys. Be assertive and take command of the ball. Go to the basket. He didn’t get a couple of calls.

but it’s clear as day to me Acuff is so better then Wagler it’s not even close. The Clippers are going to regret that one. Acuff was scoring with ease. His shot looks wet. He was going to the basket at ease and finding others.

the fact that the Clippers took this guy and the Nets took Mickel Brown over Acuff is disturbing and a Joke. What were they thinking? What were their scouts thinking? Does anybody watch basketball????

 

good but f*** Popovich f*** the Spurs. They refused to trade Kawhi to us.

 

If Lebron does end up going to Cleveland, and really wants to get Bronny there. Rather than a draft asset like a 2nd rounder, do we see any players that could solve some issues with our team construction. Maybe Jaylon Tyson or Nae'Qwan Tomlin.

I don't know a ton about the Cleveland players to know their on court value.

 

Mine is kind of a culmination of every reaction to everyone, from Reaves to Looney to MAYBE Kuminga.

I keep saying that I am fine with people disagreeing with me and saying anyone got overpaid this off-season. I don't want to silence that. I guess the constant expression, from anyone on here, with each name being dropped it weird. Like, I think MINUS Grimes and MAYBE Kessler (except the picks), every signing has repeatedly been a bad signing because they haven't produced for what the pay is. So, I get the idea of paying for production vs potential, so that answers that part of my question. I guess the problem I say to that, is how do you convince someone to come to your team if you don't pay for their potential vs their production. Like, if you pay for Production of career at that point, I have to believe most everyone would just be re-signed by their team since the bird's rights and all that. So, that's my perspective. Again, I am trying not to sound critical of people's issues or beef with things, because this is an open forum...so we need to express what we want to....I guess I am trying to understand the "negative" perspective to maybe make me a moderate fan of the off-season vs sounding only like an optimistic or only like a pessimistic.

I don't think anyone is true pessimism in here, but....there's a lot of "Don't like that" going around too so.......

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/lakers-predicted-pass-jonathan-kuminga-163825531.html

Article is talking about Bruce Brown. Don't know if it's postering by the Lakers but we shall see.

 

Word is atl has interest in Watson? Maybe they want to make Kuminga’s outgoing salary high enough to generate the TE for Watson?

 

I’d like to hear from @OX1947 on the moves we’ve made so far and who HE would like to see picked up, that we’d have a chance to pull off …. to round out the summer moves?

 

TIL TIME is Windhorst

 

Ring chasing over narrative?

 

Meh

 

seems the narrative from the Rob defenders, "he always wanted to go back to Cleveland to finish his career" was total BS. What a surprise.

 

Not a Rob defender, but I won't believe another team outside of Cleveland or Miami until it happens. This feels like the media just using rumors to generate interest in a slow news period.

Could certainly be wrong but we will know soon enough.

 

Why the shot at Rob here? You wanted him to have the PO this year? “They’ve” been pissed ever since.

 

lol

 

I am personally not seeing all these Defender posts. I wouldn't be surprised if people are defending him, but I am missing where they are posting them it seems.

I am on the team of he SHOULD go back to Cleveland. Just ride into the Sunset and MAYBE get them another ring and be done, but like....I don't get a vote. As long as he doesn't go to the Clippers or the C Bags...I am good.

If he wanted to get a lot of praise of giving a team a HUGE shot in the arm to LIKELY win a title, he'd go to Minnesota or Philly. Beyond that, I don't know what he gets, glory wise, going back to Miami, and all he gets is more glory than he already has going back to Cleveland and giving THEM that shot in the arm.

He won't go to Washington, but THAT would be the ultimate UNO Reverse if he did.