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I'm glad that I'm older and I can appreciate how incredible something like this is. And adolescent GS fan doesn't have that same perspective.
Pelinka, or any agent, would have to give up representing players and coaches in order to be hired as a GM. Now, the relationships he made as an agent might help grease the wheels to future deals with former clients, but he can't represent players and an NBA franchise at the same time.
I respect this. I wish I could hate the Dubs, but Steve Kerr is unhateable and I can't help rooting for him.
Exactly. Which is why failure to move him in market where he's clearly in demand would be a disaster and suggest that Magic may think we need to win RIGHT NOW.
I hope to God he doesn't think that. I know he's super-competitive and wants to win, but he has to see the bigger picture here.
I am assuming Rubio goes to Detroit and Jackson to New York. I would like that for the Pistons.
I don't think it is a horrible offer, I think Drummond is worth a little more. It looks like Toronto has two 1st round picks for 2017 with the better pick going to Orlando. I would probably trade Drummond for for Jonas and the other 1st
Pretty much this and the fact that a bunch of the old "Kobe/Laker" fans are now hoping on the Dubs bandwagon. GAH.
I am just catching up on the NBA, but has Jonas's value went up that much? Especially to require pick(s)?
Drummonds has gone down. His obscene contract is $10M more per year than JV. He is a giant liability from the line. Not as versatile offensively.
The timing is very strange. I figured Mitch and Jim would get the season. It strikes me as an angry reaction to not getting Cousins, though without knowing what Sacramento wanted beyond Ingram, I can't rush to blame the front office for not getting Boogie.
Not really. They actually added salary for what's basically a second round pick.
Very late. As of now, they have the fourth best record in the league. Better than nothing. Not thrilled about Brewer, but needed to match the salaries and at least his contract doesn't run longer than Williams'. Should help with the tank.
$500k for 1st rounder seems fair.
It's basically a second round pick that requires an extra year of guarantee. It's not that great.
It keeps the fanbase happy because it's a first round pick (in reality it's worth less than an early 2nd) and it also gets rid of their best player so they can tank into that top 3 pick which nets them a great pick in a great draft and also lets them keep their 2019 first rounder. They had to trade him for the best thing they could get before the trade deadline to tank, and it's very likely there wasn't much interest.
i love the quotes from Walton a month or 2 ago pissing on the Sixers and saying they would never tank. I guess that is how it goes in franchises like that, but he should be lambasted across all sports media at least for a bit. I get if you don't want to admit to it, but he was really "holier then thou" with it, when the reality is the Sixers and Lakers have been pretty similar during the whole "tank" years
If you're a contending team with tons of max players then I agree, but if you're a lottery team any 1st round pick is good.
The whole pick protection system is really contributing to the tanking. I mean the Lakers are going to save a 1 because they suck so badly. So I'm HIV positive that is contributing to the Lakers strategy. It is what it is.
wouldn't be as big of a deal if Walton and their organization pretended that they were so above the idea of "tanking" and that they would never do that to their fans.
. Not to get political or anything, but reminds me of Trump and declaring any news source that doesn't agree with him as fake news. 
No way the Lakers do this because if they lose their pick this year they also lose their 2019 1 (unprotected) to Orlando. They need to not lose that pick.
I'm hoping Walton is right and the basketball gods punish tanking. Brooklyn is a guarantee, and would love Orlando to slip to 2 worst and the kings take 3rd worst to leave lakers at 4th
From a Sixers perspective the ideal lottery result would be:
They also gave up a decent player. its a trade I would make if there were no other takers but it's not a "great haul".
I think that's the market for Lou. He's probably worth more in Houston than just about anywhere else too. The Lakers got what they could get, I think it was a good realistic deal both ways. Another key aspect of it is that the youngsters should pick up Williams's minutes, so it should help them developmentally a bit.
