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2018-19 NBA Thread: Magic Johnson leaves Lakers in order to pursue other jobs to be completely terrible at (3 Viewers)

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msudaisy26 said:
Kind of feel like this hurts the Spurs trading Kawhi now. Philly will be scared to pull a big deal on a rental, and Kawhi probably wants to go to LA even more now and the Lakers might not be willing to up their offer.
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Ball, kuzma and #1.

No Ingram for you.

Plus u r taking Deng.

Or Lakers should wait it out.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
#### all this
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seriously, and F Lebron, if he wanted Lakers the whole time he should have just said it instad of all this crap. Now all the sports heads will talk about how right they were. 

the only good thing about this is i will be able to pound Lakers win totals for next years because for some odd reason people will think this is about basketball and that Lebron will love to be playing 48 minutes still. 

Call b.s. on wanting to play with his kid too. Will best his body up having to carry the load for the Lakers. Great family guy there

 
tjnc09 said:
What's the bet?
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If Leonard comes we’ll bet LA wins a title within 3 years. 2 dominant players on both sides of the ball - yeah I’ll back that. Any trade still leaves the Lakers with talent. Cupboard won’t be bare. Then they can mid level to their hearts content with players to fill out the rotation. 

 
modogg said:
seriously, and F Lebron, if he wanted Lakers the whole time he should have just said it instad of all this crap. Now all the sports heads will talk about how right they were. 

the only good thing about this is i will be able to pound Lakers win totals for next years because for some odd reason people will think this is about basketball and that Lebron will love to be playing 48 minutes still. 

Call b.s. on wanting to play with his kid too. Will best his body up having to carry the load for the Lakers. Great family guy there
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Keep this up and I'm not going to let you talk to my girlfriend

 
modogg said:
seriously, and F Lebron, if he wanted Lakers the whole time he should have just said it instad of all this crap. Now all the sports heads will talk about how right they were. 

the only good thing about this is i will be able to pound Lakers win totals for next years because for some odd reason people will think this is about basketball and that Lebron will love to be playing 48 minutes still. 

Call b.s. on wanting to play with his kid too. Will best his body up having to carry the load for the Lakers. Great family guy there
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:loco:  Free agency began about 19 hours ago, a circus this was not.

 
Kind of bummed, as James was a great foil for the Warriors for the last four years. 3 out of 4 against a possible goat, supporting cast be damned, was pretty sweet. The tax is not on GS' side, but age is not on Lebron's. But he is clearly not making winning his 1st priority.

Flip side is how great Lavar/Lebron shtick will be. Wonder what Lebron said into his jersey during that postgame with Lonzo.

 
I'm happy Denver re signed Jokic.

Dude is the best center in the nba that nobody talks about 

 
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Good Posting Judge said:
LA should just wait this thing out and get kawhi for nothing next summer. But i am sure they wont.
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They have Lebron for 3 years locked in of his late prime. They shouldn’t be wasting a year because they think Ingram might be a borderline all star in 2-3 years. 

 
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msudaisy26 said:
How many times are you going to just make #### up and get called out for being wrong?

LeBron announced July 11 2014 he will be going back to Cleveland

Wade signs with Miami July 15th 2014

Bosh signs hours after the LeBron. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/heat/2014/07/11/chris-bosh-contract-miami-re-sign-maximum-houston-rockets-offer/12547379/

As for the 2nd part of your statement, WTF are you talking about? This is rhetorical please don't answer.
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Lebron was incredible disrespectful to Blatt from day 1. Didn't appreciate him and every other player followed suit with it. Lebron would change plays called by Blatt right in the huddle blantantly in front of Blatt as well. This led to the other players ignoring Blatt and losing the locker room. one particular play I remember being hashed was I believe the Playoff game vs Chicago the series both Rose and Lebron has GWS. A lot of talk was discussed how Lebron changed the play in front of Blatt and Blatt had given him a look like really? The play worked that Lebron called so it wasn't fussed about as much but in the finals it was clear as day. 

This is from ESPN Marc Stein and WIndhorst said Lebron came off as a petulant Superstar which didn't make him look good. Said he thought James didn't mind keeping Blatt as it was something for him to kick around. This is also where a lot of the Lebron makes a lot of the FO decisions for Cleveland started as well. Many reporters basically said Lebron acted like a child during the whole Blast fiasco and it didn't make him look great at all. 

From ESPN:

I saw it from close range in my role as sideline reporter through the Finals for ESPN Radio. LeBron essentially calling timeouts and making substitutions. LeBron openly barking at Blatt after decisions he didn’t like. LeBron huddling frequently with Lue and so often looking at anyone other than Blatt.

There was LeBron, in one instance I witnessed from right behind the bench, shaking his head vociferously in protest after one play Blatt drew up in the third quarter of Game 5, amounting to the loudest nonverbal scolding you could imagine.

Which forced Blatt, in front of his whole team, to wipe the board clean and draw up something else.
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I don't see why every one is so mad at LeBron. The guy has played more minutes than anyone the last 10 years. I don't see why it so bad if he takes a June off, maybe even a May. 

 
DJackson10 said:
Lebron was incredible disrespectful to Blatt from day 1. Didn't appreciate him and every other player followed suit with it. Lebron would change plays called by Blatt right in the huddle blantantly in front of Blatt as well. This led to the other players ignoring Blatt and losing the locker room. one particular play I remember being hashed was I believe the Playoff game vs Chicago the series both Rose and Lebron has GWS. A lot of talk was discussed how Lebron changed the play in front of Blatt and Blatt had given him a look like really? The play worked that Lebron called so it wasn't fussed about as much but in the finals it was clear as day. 

This is from ESPN Marc Stein and WIndhorst said Lebron came off as a petulant Superstar which didn't make him look good. Said he thought James didn't mind keeping Blatt as it was something for him to kick around. This is also where a lot of the Lebron makes a lot of the FO decisions for Cleveland started as well. Many reporters basically said Lebron acted like a child during the whole Blast fiasco and it didn't make him look great at all. 
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Way to move the goal posts, still says noting about the so called screw job you claimed he did to Wade and Bosh. Which he didn't.

 
msudaisy26 said:
I don't see why every one is so mad at LeBron. The guy has played more minutes than anyone the last 10 years. I don't see why it so bad if he takes a June off, maybe even a May. 
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Maybe that is why, but he still is going to have to play a ton of minutes each night to carry that team. Just a terrible idea, he is going to be miserable the next 3-4 years and honestly i think most of us will enjoy that because he did this to himself. 

 
msudaisy26 said:
:lmao: no one is saying he has to be Stephen Curry next season, but if you actually think it won't improve slightly and that the 76er's will coast to the ECF and probably the NBA finals just adding LeBron to what is all already there you are fooling yourself. Assuming they stay healthy.
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That's the biggest question especially surrounding Embiid. Can they stay healthy. Does Lebron really want to go play for a team with one of the top guys he plays with may not play half the year? No one is Saying Simmons needs to be Curry but comparing Simmonds and James jump shots is a pretty big jump in this. Lebron didn't have anywhere close as bad of a jumper as Simmons and he also didn't seem to have what I also believe a mental block of being afraid to shoot from further away. Lebron was still attempting jumpers though. It needed some fine tuning and work though at the next level however no where near what Simmonds needs. When the Sixers came out saying they didn't want Ben to focus on getting a better shot and just focus on playing PG that doesn't sound like an issue (The jumper) you can fix over night. That's something that might need half a year or more to get close to anything. Hence why the Sixers said we just want him to focus on Playing PG his rookie year. 

 
modogg said:
Maybe that is why, but he still is going to have to play a ton of minutes each night to carry that team. Just a terrible idea, he is going to be miserable the next 3-4 years and honestly i think most of us will enjoy that because he did this to himself. 
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So you two are on speaking terms?

 
Kahwi on Philly even without LaBron is nasty.  Almost assuredly comes out of the east.  With the way the west will beat up on each other with brutal payoff series after series I wouldn’t count Philly out at all.  Super young and athletic.  

 
DJackson10 said:
That's the biggest question especially surrounding Embiid. Can they stay healthy. Does Lebron really want to go play for a team with one of the top guys he plays with may not play half the year? No one is Saying Simmons needs to be Curry but comparing Simmonds and James jump shots is a pretty big jump in this. Lebron didn't have anywhere close as bad of a jumper as Simmons and he also didn't seem to have what I also believe a mental block of being afraid to shoot from further away. Lebron was still attempting jumpers though. It needed some fine tuning and work though at the next level however no where near what Simmonds needs. When the Sixers came out saying they didn't want Ben to focus on getting a better shot and just focus on playing PG that doesn't sound like an issue (The jumper) you can fix over night. That's something that might need half a year or more to get close to anything. Hence why the Sixers said we just want him to focus on Playing PG his rookie year. 
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he would have played all year if he didn't catch a wild shoulder that fractured his face. are we really pretending that is injury prone?

 
DJackson10 said:
That's the biggest question especially surrounding Embiid. Can they stay healthy. Does Lebron really want to go play for a team with one of the top guys he plays with may not play half the year? No one is Saying Simmons needs to be Curry but comparing Simmonds and James jump shots is a pretty big jump in this. Lebron didn't have anywhere close as bad of a jumper as Simmons and he also didn't seem to have what I also believe a mental block of being afraid to shoot from further away. Lebron was still attempting jumpers though. It needed some fine tuning and work though at the next level however no where near what Simmonds needs. When the Sixers came out saying they didn't want Ben to focus on getting a better shot and just focus on playing PG that doesn't sound like an issue (The jumper) you can fix over night. That's something that might need half a year or more to get close to anything. Hence why the Sixers said we just want him to focus on Playing PG his rookie year. 
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I never compared LeBron and Simmons shot, and every team's biggest obstacle is staying healthy/

 
modogg said:
Maybe that is why, but he still is going to have to play a ton of minutes each night to carry that team. Just a terrible idea, he is going to be miserable the next 3-4 years and honestly i think most of us will enjoy that because he did this to himself. 
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I know you are angry because he's leaving your team, but what did he do that was so bad? Guy wants to live in LA. Its a pretty great place.

 
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