NBA ***2024 NBA Thread - Let The Games Begin***

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Lakers should have never signed Lebron.

In 2018 the Lakers had Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Julius Randle, Kyle Kuzma, KCP, Ivan Zubac, Jordan Clarkson, Brook Lopez, Alex Caruso, Josh Hart, and GP2.

Out of this group Ingram and Randle became all stars. Kuzma is a borderline all star. Clarkson became a 6th man of the year. KCP, Lopez, & GP2 became big contributors on other championship teams. While Lonzo, Zubac, Caruso, and Hart all became quality role players.

They were stacked with young talent to work with. They had draft picks and cap space. They could have kept drafting talent, developed or signed a young superstar, made strategic trades for the right role players. They could have developed organically from year to year. Had they done that they would be in the same position as the Nuggets, Kings, Timberwolves, Thunder, ect. Instead the Lakers traded all this away for one fake ass bubble ring, 5 losing seasons, and no future. Since Lebron came to the Lakers:

2019: 37 wins
2021: 42 wins
2022: 33 wins
2023: 43 wins
2024: On pace for 38 wins

Its time to TRADE LEBRON and start over. He has destroyed the culture and reputation of the once great Los Angeles Lakers.
 
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Sweater of AV said:
Lol at LeCan hitting the side of the fucking backboard and giving the game away in every way possible. Prime Snaq is a cleaner free throw shooter than this absolute unit of a can.

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Just trade LeCan to Golden State. Give the Flakes a fresh start.
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I picked up during the 2nd half of that game and one of the things that struck me the most was how often Lebron put in zero effort on the defensive end, and I mean zero. Multiple times his man, be it Smart, or Jackson, or Bane, would shoot a 3 and Lebron would not even raise his hand, he literally would not even put his hand up. I get it, he's "old", but he doesn't even look to be trying on the defensive end.
 
MusterX said:
I picked up during the 2nd half of that game and one of the things that struck me the most was how often Lebron put in zero effort on the defensive end, and I mean zero. Multiple times his man, be it Smart, or Jackson, or Bane, would shoot a 3 and Lebron would not even raise his hand, he literally would not even put his hand up. I get it, he's "old", but he doesn't even look to be trying on the defensive end.
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Now you see what I was talking about yesterday about defensive effort. Lebron gets a small pass from me though because of his age but it’s a league wide issue as I talked about. Its why teams are scoring 150 regularly now.
 
Corona said:
Lakers wouldve been a 3-6 seed for a few seasons at best if they rode with that 2018 team. Unless they got KD or some bs they weren’t winning any championships.
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They wouldn’t have even got out of the first round. None of those guys have gone on to be superstars. I’d rather see a team go for it than be complacent and still suck.
 
Revolver said:
They wouldn’t have even got out of the first round. None of those guys have gone on to be superstars. I’d rather see a team go for it than be complacent and still suck.
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In today’s league you need at least one elite player to win a ship. None of those guys are even top 25 at their peak. Unless a superstar fell in their lap they wouldn’t win shit.
 
Corona said:
In today’s league you need at least one elite player to win a ship. None of those guys are even top 25 at their peak. Unless a superstar fell in their lap they wouldn’t win shit.
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To win in todays league you need build organically. Denver, Milwaukee, and Golden State all developed their rosters organically. Even Toronto built their team organically and just added a superstar to their homegrown and developed talent. All the best teams in the league developed their own talent and acquired pieces strategically. Nuggets, Bucks, Thunder, Heat, Celtics, Kings, Timberwolves, ect.

Signing aging superstars to win now is so last decade.
 
Corona said:
Lakers wouldve been a 3-6 seed for a few seasons at best if they rode with that 2018 team. Unless they got KD or some bs they weren’t winning any championships.
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Outside of the Bubble year the Lakers have been a 7-12 seed since Lebron came
 
Tbh Gabe Vincent is gonna get healthy and they're probably gonna get Zack Levine, and look like a beast again as long as the latter can stay healthy with AD and Bern
 
OneOfOne said:
They need to develop young talent like the guys they had back in 2018
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The lakers haven’t “developed” any young talent in decades. Unless you can draft a future superstar your team is stuck in purgatory in today’s league. Having a bunch of b/c level players and your ceiling is the bricks and pelicans.

OneOfOne said:
Outside of the Bubble year the Lakers have been a 7-12 seed since Lebron came
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Lebron is old and gAyD is fragile, everyone knew it was going to be a short window.
 
OneOfOne said:
To win in todays league you need build organically. Denver, Milwaukee, and Golden State all developed their rosters organically. Even Toronto built their team organically and just added a superstar to their homegrown and developed talent. All the best teams in the league developed their own talent and acquired pieces strategically. Nuggets, Bucks, Thunder, Heat, Celtics, Kings, Timberwolves, ect.

Signing aging superstars to win now is so last decade.
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Lmao. Golden state begged KD to come. Otherwise all they would have was one title against an injury depleted roster.

All these teams had a top 3 nba player on their roster. That’s all you need with a great supporting cast. The lakers currently don’t have a top 3 player. Don’t even think they have a top 10. That’s why they aren’t good. None of the guys the lakers had prior to Lebron coming have developed into a top 25 player so there was no point in paying max money to keep.
 
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