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Dwyane Wade weighs in:i don't know, i just keep adding to "Lebron to the Sixers" as the odds keep looking good
So we hear his wife wants to be in LA and 43 million dollars worth of homes pretty much validates it. Maybe Gary Payton was right saying little Bronny had enrolled in an LA area school. Maybe he's a fool. But Lebron gonna be a Laker. I suggest the NBA demote the eastern conference to minor league status soon thereafter.
The East will get stronger when he heads West, elite players that can't join LA or GS will migrate to the Boston/Philly type teams to get away from the Warriors and Lebron.
my understanding is that the nba policy is far more lax and even if you were to misrepresent an injury prior to a game, the punishments are unclear. It could be interesting moving forward with the gambling because it is a priority of Silver's and there have been some rumblings that that is the real reason that he's been so hard on the tanking and on transparency of officiating.
There's a slight difference between "not to the Lakers" and "won't win a championship with the Lakers"
Why is that? I thought MJ nut-huggers were allover the premise that it is better to get swept in the first round than in the Finals.
Assuming Rivers and Jordan opt in or are kept, they are over the cap. They would have a lot of work to do.
Also gonna keep my eyeball on Boston to win the East. Seems very likely if James lands in the West or in Boston, obviously.
Great value.
I'm more impressed with James' ability to drag otherwise-lotto teams to the Finals than Jordan getting otherwise-2nd round playoff teams to titles.
Yes. That would put them squarely in the discussion. Now add Durant and Boogie.Kraft... said:If the Lakers sign Lebron and George then are able to trade for Anthony Davis you think they could compete with the Dubs?
Assuming all the youth they have accumulated is out the door(Kuz, Ingram, Randle, Ball). Would that plus picks be enough to even land Davis?
Once they signed LeBron and George, they would be at the salary cap and in a salary match situation. The Lakers would likely have to offer Deng to apply to the salary matching, throw in a couple of the kids (Ball / Ingram / Kuzma), and offer a couple of first rounders to even get New Orleans to pick up the phone. IMO, if AD was on the trading block, the Celtics have a lot more to offer that the Lakers do. And I doubt the Pelicans would be that enthralled with the Lakers trade package.Kraft... said:If the Lakers sign Lebron and George then are able to trade for Anthony Davis you think they could compete with the Dubs?
Assuming all the youth they have accumulated is out the door(Kuz, Ingram, Randle, Ball). Would that plus picks be enough to even land Davis?
Good for you. I know you've been firmly behind Dubs futures, but a M5!!!! Nice.Chaos Commish said:
Makes no sense from NO's standpoint. And the value of any Lakers picks immediately dies if Lebron signs there. And they get dumb Deng and dumb Lonzo's dumb dad? Cool.
Agree re Boston
Davis is another potential HUGE chip in what could be another crazy NBA off season. Wanted to get his name out there 
Are they going to set up a ladder in the middle of the key so Fultz can shoot?have you forgot the 6'ers play in the East??
Probably not. The Lakers are said to have $61 million in available cap space and it would probably take $70-75 million to max out James and Paul. If they found someone to take on Deng's $18 million contract, then possibly they could sign two true max free agents. But there aren't many teams other than the Lakers with a ton of salary cap space to just eat $18 million. And the next issue would be they would not have enough salary to trade for the third guy getting a max contract in a sign and trade in a salary match situation. Also, by that point there would not be a lot in it for the team doing the sign and trade. It will be extremely difficult in today's NBA for any team to roster three max contracts.
The butthurt look on you isn't a good look.modogg said:
The kid was looking at taking a 15 year old Acura to college. An FBG convinced me to bet heavy if I believed what I said about Durant to GS. So I did. I almost bought a silly old supercar for my midlife crisis needs, so I could give the kid my daily driver to take to school. Then in PMs @sbonomo(who knows cars better than the rest of us) called me stupid and told me to get an M5, even linked me to one he liked. It's a 2012 so nowhere near a new one in value. NBA threads may attract idiocy, but there's some smart people around here worth listening to sometimes.
But it is the Lakers and then you have the inside track on the other Ball kids.
Bovada has it as follows:
You're saying if PG13 was on the Lakers this year and they faced off in a 7 game series against those Lebron led Cavs, the Lakers would roll?
He is saying the 2017-18 Lakers with LeBron and the supporting cast of George and others is better than a 2017-18 team with LeBron and the Cavs supporting cast.
