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Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1485 on: January 30, 2018, 11:40:11 AM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1486 on: January 30, 2018, 11:51:28 AM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

I am having hard time imagining Lebron rejecting Lakers to go Clippers.... But i will be very very entertaining

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1487 on: January 30, 2018, 12:57:33 PM »

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Raptors won. Still too early to raise the white flag. As long as the Lakers are in the lottery there are chances to get a top 3 pick even if their record are outside top 5 worst.
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If LAL ends up beating both ORL and BKN, I honestly think our chances at this pick would officially be over.  :(
Nothing is official until the Ping-Pong balls are drawn.

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (19-30, 9th Slot on 1/30)
« Reply #1488 on: January 30, 2018, 01:00:32 PM »

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Lakers nation banking their whole future on LeFlop saving them .   This would be a HUGE blow to their egos if Clippers stle away Lewhine NEXT hallway down .....LOL .....Clippers having CP3 irritated there fans to no end .

Lakers fans counting on Boogie to sign to put together a super team....that train wrecked.   

laker fan base will crash and burn with no LeFlop or George this summer......Hee hee ..

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1489 on: January 30, 2018, 01:05:11 PM »

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Raptors won. Still too early to raise the white flag. As long as the Lakers are in the lottery there are chances to get a top 3 pick even if their record are outside top 5 worst.
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If LAL ends up beating both ORL and BKN, I honestly think our chances at this pick would officially be over.  :(
Nothing is official until the Ping-Pong balls are drawn.
One thing that would be official is that we would not be getting 4 or 5.  Only chance if Lakers don't have bottom 5 record is 2 or 3.  So, that's good news, right?  ;)

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1490 on: January 30, 2018, 01:38:22 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1491 on: January 30, 2018, 01:58:14 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Whether LeBron would play there or not, it was based on this Marc Stein post (among others):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2756649-marc-stein-says-clippers-clearly-believe-lebron-james-will-consider-signing

Mike

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1492 on: January 30, 2018, 02:08:17 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Whether LeBron would play there or not, it was based on this Marc Stein post (among others):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2756649-marc-stein-says-clippers-clearly-believe-lebron-james-will-consider-signing

Mike

Ah, I guess it's the universe where LeBron teams up with Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari... ::)

Also the one where Austin Rivers declines his $12.5 million player option next year to help save his dad's job.  (Although that one is actually possible.)

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1493 on: January 30, 2018, 02:29:56 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Whether LeBron would play there or not, it was based on this Marc Stein post (among others):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2756649-marc-stein-says-clippers-clearly-believe-lebron-james-will-consider-signing

Mike

Ah, I guess it's the universe where LeBron teams up with Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari... ::)

Also the one where Austin Rivers declines his $12.5 million player option next year to help save his dad's job.  (Although that one is actually possible.)

Is it possible to sign Lebron AND extend DeAndre, or zero chance?
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Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1494 on: January 30, 2018, 02:36:23 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Whether LeBron would play there or not, it was based on this Marc Stein post (among others):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2756649-marc-stein-says-clippers-clearly-believe-lebron-james-will-consider-signing

Mike

Ah, I guess it's the universe where LeBron teams up with Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari... ::)

Also the one where Austin Rivers declines his $12.5 million player option next year to help save his dad's job.  (Although that one is actually possible.)

Is it possible to sign Lebron AND extend DeAndre, or zero chance?

It's possible, but it means they'd need a lot of players to opt out and make some trades.  As is, DeAndre could opt out and they could let him walk along with every other free agent, and they'd still be about $15 million short of Lebron money.  To get both would mean Deandre would need to not opt out and they'd then near to clear about another $40 million to have cap room for LeBron.  If DJ opted out they'd need to make $45 million of room. I don't see it.

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (18-29, 9th Slot on 1/26)
« Reply #1495 on: January 30, 2018, 02:53:11 PM »

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Clippers in the hunt for LeBron. Paul George having a love fest in OKC.

What happens if they free up a ton of cap space and can't sign a top free agent next year? Besides us laughing, of course.

Mike

In what world are the Clippers in the hunt for LeBron?  He's itching to play with Tobias Harris?

Whether LeBron would play there or not, it was based on this Marc Stein post (among others):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2756649-marc-stein-says-clippers-clearly-believe-lebron-james-will-consider-signing

Mike

Ah, I guess it's the universe where LeBron teams up with Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari... ::)

Also the one where Austin Rivers declines his $12.5 million player option next year to help save his dad's job.  (Although that one is actually possible.)

Is it possible to sign Lebron AND extend DeAndre, or zero chance?

It's possible, but it means they'd need a lot of players to opt out and make some trades.  As is, DeAndre could opt out and they could let him walk along with every other free agent, and they'd still be about $15 million short of Lebron money.  To get both would mean Deandre would need to not opt out and they'd then near to clear about another $40 million to have cap room for LeBron.  If DJ opted out they'd need to make $45 million of room. I don't see it.
So basically....Lebron to the Clips ain't happening.

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (19-30, 9th Slot on 1/30)
« Reply #1496 on: January 31, 2018, 09:20:28 PM »

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Magic blowout the Lakers 127-105  ;D
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Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (19-30, 9th Slot on 1/30)
« Reply #1497 on: January 31, 2018, 10:02:41 PM »

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Nice job magic. Hope the magical  go on a win streak

Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (19-30, 9th Slot on 1/30)
« Reply #1498 on: January 31, 2018, 11:52:14 PM »

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Overall looks like a good night for the pick.

Lakers lost. Magic won. Nets won. One of Suns-Mavs guanranteed a win tonight.

Also there's rumors that the Mavericks REALLY want Randle in a trade. If they add Randle, maybe he helps DAL win games while LAL struggles a bit by losing him?  ;D
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Re: 2017-18 Lakers Season Watch Thread (19-30, 9th Slot on 1/30)
« Reply #1499 on: February 01, 2018, 02:06:51 AM »

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February looks like a mostly "cake-walk" schedule for the Lakers too 😐

6 out of 10 games are against the bad teams we need them to lose to! Two games against OKC who seems to play well against them, as well as Minnesota. And a game against New Orleans who obviously is not trending in the positive direction with Boogie out.

If the Celtics don't get Randle, hopefully Dallas gets him this week, before the Lakers realize they play Dallas twice in mid and end of the month! 😂