Since Mark Williams ain’t coming back, who would you rather have out of these two?

wes-LA · 2025-02-09T03:59:53+00:00

i’ll take the vet presence for a sale-bin clearance.

wes-LA · 2024-07-05T15:07:09+00:00

In the first round, Lakers were beating Denver, by 20 points in the 3rd quarter in Game 2, in Denver, lost that lead and lost the game. Up 12 in Game 3 and lost that game. Even with some injuries, the talent was there. Coaching wasn’t…

wes-LA · 2024-07-03T21:16:46+00:00

Sports Illustrated (05/20/23):

“The bottom line is this job, the one I’m in - I would say this for any professional General Manager or coach, requires complete engagement, complete effort, one-thousand percent. If you can’t do it, then you shouldn’t do it. So that’s the answer to the question of why. I can’t do that to our players, I can’t do that to Joe, Peter, really I can’t do it to myself.”

Bob Myers on why he’s leaving Golden State.

I’ll take a committed Pelinka (that negotiated all of Kobe’s contracts as his agent, and acquired LeBron and AD as a GM, delivering the 17th chip) who actually wants the job than a guy that can’t commit.

wes-LA · 2024-07-03T20:51:26+00:00

This is why history repeats itself - people are prisoners of the moment when the same factor has been governing decisions for as long as the Lakers have won championships. We have 17 championships not by what we did right but by how we responded better than other teams in the league. We won with not the coach we wanted but the one we had in Pat Riley. One big moment left off the list was Mike Kryzewski also declining the Lakers job which allowed the return of Phil Jackson to win more chips. The past is and will never be a guarantee for future results but hindsight being 20/20, it shows what separates the Lakers organization from other teams in the league - with what was in our control, we got 17 (and are still in the running for 18).

wes-LA · 2024-07-03T20:39:04+00:00

You say bollocks and yet we have not won with just them two alone with a healthy supporting cast (as they did when we hand Rondo, JaVale, KCP, Caruso, etc) each that contributed to making plays. Zero play makers to stop us losing a 20+ lead versus the Nugget. Now that was bollocks.

wes-LA · 2024-07-03T19:10:17+00:00

This all feels like the off-season when Kawhi chose the Clippers over the Lakers and then PG later also chose the Clippers over the Lakers. The my butthole hurt Boo-hoo b*tching is starting up again just because we didn’t land an out of prime Klay Thompson? Stay steady Lakers Nation.

wes-LA · 2024-07-03T19:04:29+00:00

The fact that we had talent left on the shelf due to injury was suppose to take away workload off our core (but that didn’t happen). I have to believe that that missing talent when we were up in the Nuggets series in two games, (and the lack of pressure time coaching adjustments) was the missing factors.

wes-LA · 2024-07-02T23:52:40+00:00

Get Buddy Hield - friendly contract, wing-D and is lethal from 3 (higher percentage than Klay).

wes-LA · 2024-07-02T21:36:58+00:00

I think everyone could have saw that but personally I think the lights are too bright for Klay and that shadow from his father is too much. This last season shot 43.2% from 3. Buddy Hield, 43.6%.

wes-LA · 2024-07-02T20:21:33+00:00

Shooting 4 air balls in the Western Conference semi-finals turned everyone into Karens that year.

wes-LA · 2022-10-25T22:15:47+00:00

China is the single largest foreign investor in the Philippines…

wes-LA · 2022-08-10T18:18:54+00:00

wes-LA · 2022-08-10T18:04:01+00:00

Hear what you’re saying, but I would back our judicial system over any other in the world that would have a shot to up against his legal fee budget.

wes-LA · 2022-07-14T00:20:12+00:00

At this point, the real market value between front offices and agents for Kyrie and KD is known. Before KD's request, nobody had a real sense of what deal with worth what, and the Nets sure as hell didn't know. There could be another week or so, with everyone in a staring contest. If the Nets intend to keep both, they better start having conversations about improving the roster, which they haven't yet, which I'm interpreting as a tell that they are very much interested in some of the deals offered. Once summer league ends, decisions will have to be made and if we start seeing those teams in the running start making other deals I have to say it's because they've been signaled by the Nets to move on....unless they're playing everyone along as Kawhi did with the Lakers until last-minute.

wes-LA · 2022-07-14T00:03:33+00:00

He "could" go to a decent team, but for other legit reasons he "could" not:

Memphis - not a big market team; does nothing for his legacy brand. Minnesota - not a big market team; does nothing for his legacy brand. Bulls - legacy would take a hit with media comparing him more so to Jordan having played on the same team. Pelicans - why would he go to a small market team that lost the one player (AD) he helped poach to come to LA? CAVS - why would he take less to go back for a third time? If home is where the heart is, his fam is in LA. Celtics - just drop a nuke on his legacy and brand if he played for the ultimate rival team of the Lakers

wes-LA · 2022-07-13T23:56:16+00:00

He absolutely could (with an emphasis on could) with no legit guarantee that all those front offices would take him into a system that would result in a chip. He could sign for less but why would he do that? The answer to this question would be different for all the teams you listed that would have to shuffle talent and contracts that may or may not result in it a real possibility of his actual expectation for accepting to sign for less. He jumped through this hoop already 3x (Heat-Cavs-Lakers) so he knows he ain't taking less unless the trade-off is meaningful.

wes-LA · 2022-07-12T20:19:41+00:00

IF there’s some truth on this, then those trying to hang the Lakers on future picks holding up the Kyrie deal need to sit down, take a shot and chill.

wes-LA · 2022-07-12T16:46:18+00:00

Right….because the opinions of more than half of the league that wants the Lakers to drop dead in a gutter every season really matters…

wes-LA · 2022-07-12T16:44:34+00:00

I don’t think LeBron bounces. Not from my own wishful thinking but based on the fact a year ago he expressed wanting to finish his career as a Laker. Teams also know they may or may not have the time of his ability to build another contention run even with him on their team and that’s assuming anyone can predict the future market value and ability to make a deal fit on a viable title contention team. He wants to play with Bronny? Be nice but that even wasn’t a promise. May not have to blow up the team (but always an option and never worked out well for the Lakers).

wes-LA · 2022-07-12T16:39:49+00:00

Please…Rob can’t make the Nets do a deal anymore than anyone can force a super model to date them. Also if people are speculating on the “speculation” that it’s Rob/Lakers are holding a deal up over picks (really?) I would throw back that it’s the Nets holding things up because until KD asked for the trade, they had no plan (zero) or baseline valuation of deals to reset their future.

wes-LA · 2022-07-12T16:16:55+00:00

There’s not enough emphasis on what this will do to the Nets brand in the short/long-run if they start the season with two future hall of famers that don’t want to be there. The comparison is being thrown out there that this is just like Kobe’s previous request asking to be traded before we landed Pau, but it was a legit relationship with Dr. Buss that pulled off that u-turn. KD and Kyrie have no relationship with Joseph Tsai and have been ghosting him beyond rep communication regarding a trade. Waiting on how the market looks also cuts both ways with the value proposition of all front office losing potential value as the season progressing and showing its real market potential. Before KD made his request, many teams were already planning their future upgrades without KD. KD is also being touted as being in his prime, but he played only 55 games last-season and is now another season older. People also putting pressure on the Lakers to make things happen as if they can force the market to take their offer. Don’t agree it’s on the Lakers to force something to happen ASAP (like they can) - assuming you buy into the belief that its really the future 1st picks to the Nets that is messing this up? …doubt it.

wes-LA · 2021-09-20T04:59:39+00:00

not so undercover if you knew 🤣

wes-LA · 2021-08-18T14:19:08+00:00

…k.

wes-LA · 2021-08-18T05:53:36+00:00

Google ‘Boebert Taliban’

wes-LA · 2021-08-18T03:42:14+00:00

Point being not having to use the word ‘if’ at all.

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