2018-19 NBA Thread

Plus, if you’re Milwaukee, you’d have to think you have a decent shot to re-sign AD. The Bucks currently have the best record in the league and a top-5 player in his prime who seems to be easy to play and get along with. If they can keep that going after a trade for AD, he’d be an idiot to want to leave that situation.

Of course, I’d hate for him to go to the LAL, but he’d be a sidekick for the first time in his career, so maybe that’s the real “punishment.”

 

Remember that collection of shit we thought the Lakers would offer to the Pelicans for AD. They couldn't even do that.



NOLA is gonna say Kuzma and Ingram and multiple picks + cap relief or wait until 2020. LeBron will be older and that window will get smaller.

 

If I'm NOLA I don't know that I take any less than Ball/Kuzma/Ingram/Zubac/Rondo and two number ones. And even then, I don't know that I do it.

Good to see the Lakers haven't learned from lowballing San Antonio or Indiana.

 

It makes no sense for the Lakers to trade Ball and Rondo. Who would play point for them? LeBron?

 

It's a salary thing. Either they throw in Rondo or they include Beasley and Stephenson.

If they pull off a deal I think this year is pretty much a write-off for the Lakers anyway.

 

Joke answer: Jack Nicholson he'll be just as useful as any other PG with LeBron and Davis on that team.

Serious answer: Pope?

 

A guy who gets released this year, followed by a more concrete option next year. It also isn't super-hard to get a decent point guard option, if you're willing to pay the luxury tax - Dennis Schroeder was salary dumped between seasons, for example, and Reggie Jackson is in the same category. Not great players, but OK options.

 

They don't really need a ball-handler at the point anyway. They need a guy who can hit an open 3.

 

LBJ sitting out tonight after his one-game return; he's just a few more failures away from proving correct my prediction that he's Pujols 2.0.

 

Physically, he's the most gifted player to ever pick up a basketball. He just doesn't have the killer instinct that Jordan or even Kobe had. He's going to have to settle for being the second-best ever.

 

Hell, he should probably just retire.

 

I'm not saying that at all. But I doubt he ever makes the Finals again.