2025-26 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

yeah, we all know that, and it's well deserved, but to what extent?

Max, $35 million, etc? idk, nobody else does either. There's been a few supporters in the minority that have put him at $35 million. He might even take a little less so we can add an FA wing if one becomes available Just depends.

 

He could have been fully healthy and shot like sh** and you'd still be making excuses for him.

And I really don't care about rust personally. It's the PO's Do or die. Every game matters. Time to get his injured a** out there and perform. Excuses are out the window with me.

 

Silver lining of this fall back to earth is that recency bias won't impact our summer plans.
I think we could overrate this unsustainable performance from this team and the chatter about bringing the team back was high around here and among Laker fans.
I was against it and I think it shows. We gotta get younger, stronger and faster. We need the best 2/3 defenders in the market, via trade/FA or draft. And from any position, we need to buckle up our defense, that will unlock the offense together with 2 top players at creating shots

 

It's going to be an eventful but tough summer to pull off. It's still hard for me to see a scenario where we're a legitimate contender in the 2027 playoffs (which should be the goal, when you have 28 year old Luka and Austin) without LeBron on the team, but it's also getting hard for me to envision him ever making it through multiple playoff rounds playing at the level we'd need him to.