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

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  1. LTLakerFan

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    You right first third of the season and up and down after that. He was great for us in all the up times. Great call. :rock:
     
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    Honestly I’ll miss Hayes more than Ayton. I liked his energy. Better get someone to back up 5 game Kessler.
     
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  3. Kobeluka99

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    Dude I remember the days of Greg Foster. You need a backup big. It was rough for us with Shaq. I remember Foster was so good on Utah and then we bought him here and he couldn’t do nothing.
     
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    Yeah the clips JSM put up looked really interesting with that super quick twitch vertical defensive and offensive potential. Rebounding too?
     
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    I got an idea from LG. Maybe you guys who are in the mid-west or NBA junkies can help me. Jarace Walker an Indiana SF/PF, 22, with a crazy long wingspan is a Billy Duffy client. Probably isn't a starter, but when you plug guys next to Luka, they can look better? Again, I got this from LG, and I haven't seen this guy much.

    Help me, LB. Good fit or not?
     
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    @LTLakerFan Don't me just starting at calves tonight during SL. Watch the game too, brodie.
     
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    There’s this thing called Youtube? :rofl: :)

    Hey what did you think of one of your boys (?) Mike Garcia tentatively plugging Jake back into the hypothetical starting lineup (again) (like JJ did for 1/3 season) … over Grimes?

    :Shaqwink:
     
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    What do you think about these on the left ... pretty solid?

    :Laugh:

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    So all is quiet on the Denver front. Another idea, if we find a way to dump 3/4 of the dead weight package -- Vando, DK, Jake, Hardy by attaching all the 2nds and the remaining 2nd swap you'd clear enough to take on Braun. If they're willing to send out a first to dump him, you'd essentially recoup the value of dumping the 2nds.




    Another wing option off the board
     
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    Nah, not going to take Braun unless if they offered picks/swaps. That's one of the worst contracts in the NBA right now (obviously, Braun can bounce back) and he's nowhere worth paying 5/125 for.
     
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    That's why I said IF they gave up a first

    To clarify that idea: we dump our 2nds to get off our dead weight.
    You recoup that value with a 1st from Denver + Braun and his salary fits inside that space you clear.
     
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    Much respect to you, man!
    You can call me out anytime in the future and I will admit I was wrong as well.
     
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    I remember.
    Give me DJ Mbenga! That was my guy.
     
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    Knicks not done on the center market and that'll impact our options
     
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    Nick Richards is probably as good, as are some dudes we’ve yet to hear of. Let’s be the team that discovers one!
     
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    Can we just get Kaminga and be done with it?
     
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    If we get an actual starting level forward, Rob will receive a “B-“ from me for the summer.
     
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    if we get kuminga it's a solid A. if we get rui back, it's a B+. if we get spencer jones, it's a B+.

    other names will require recalibration of the FA judge-o-meter.
     
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    IF those ridiculous Player Options were team options and we get either Kuminga or Rui back, I would have given him an “A.”
     
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