Kuzma with 23 points in the 1st quarter.
And Magic wanted to trade all the young talent for AD
Official NBA 2018-2019 Thread - the end of the regular season is near
And Magic wanted to trade all the young talent for AD
Kuzma with 23 points in the 1st quarter.
Just tuning in, haven’t watch a game in a long fucking time...
Interested as to how they Lakers finish the season out, this a big game for them if they can get passed the “trust process”
And Magic wanted to trade all the young talent for AD
BGOL says they not talented and Boston's core is better.
And Magic wanted to trade all the young talent for AD
Man I think some of those reports was bullshit
BGOL says they not talented and Boston's core is better.
Hart
Ingram
Lonzo
Kuz
Is something nice to grow around
If that was offered the pelicans just don’t want to trade AD, plain and simple
Or either don’t want him in the west
Boring game
Bron didn’t even stick around to shake bens hand I thought they were cool
@jack walsh13
Y’all played a great game
Y’all played a great game
Sent Laker fans home early en shit.
Word was Lebron was hanging out real late. It showed. Lakers bench is straight ass. 
Fuck dat nigga. He knew he fucked up going to the Lakers from a basketball perspective.
I thought that was him. Funny thing is they mentioned Magic on the jumbotron but didn't acknowledge him.
He went to the duke virgina game yesterday trying to recruit players to his agencySent Laker fans home early en shit.
Speaking of that, I found it funny how Lebron brought KCP and Rondo...two players who weren't really in the trade discussions
Lebron has sort of divided the team...last year they were more fun to watch and seemed to like each other and have more fun on the court.
Now it seems to be a division of the old players and younger ones. How do you play with someone who is your boss?
Luke's line ups leave a lot to be desired(starting Bully already?), but how do you even coach that?
As a Laker fan it's a disconnect with the team. It's like my team got hijacked. I don't know who to root for, because they might not be long for the team.
You're trying to catch the Clippers, but you give them Zubac and make them better? The Lakers never trade with the Clippers.
Meanwhile Brooke Lopez and Thomas Bryant are both playing good ball.
Lebron has sort of divided the team...last year they were more fun to watch and seemed to like each other and have more fun on the court.
Now it seems to be a division of the old players and younger ones. How do you play with someone who is your boss?
Luke's line ups leave a lot to be desired(starting Bully already?), but how do you even coach that?
As a Laker fan it's a disconnect with the team. It's like my team got hijacked. I don't know who to root for, because they might not be long for the team.
You're trying to catch the Clippers, but you give them Zubac and make them better? The Lakers never trade with the Clippers.
Meanwhile Brooke Lopez and Thomas Bryant are both playing good ball.
All points I have been making.
Magic drafted baby shit soft Wagner instead of Mitchell Robinson, drafted sorry ass Svi and have already traded him and gave up Zubac for another soft CAC.
He got rid of 2 hustle guys in Nance and Randle and a real stretch 5 in Lopez. Shit is making no sense
At least none of them have spoken out about it yet. Morris is Boston came out and said the locker room in Boston isn’t s in a good place right now
They're probably scared too.
Jaylen Brown and Tatum are quiet. Just like Lonzo, Ingram, Hart and Kuz seem to be going along.
our vets are the happy ones, they're the ones who are straight. They over paid for KCP and Lance. Javele is getting more time than he ever has. Anything is better than Phoenix for Tyson.
Shittttttttt.. He said it ain't be a good place for awhile now. Kyrie already came out and said the youngins are playing selfishly.
Boston can be back at square one coming August.
That wasn't smart to get rid of Zubac, that's a big gamble giving him away for basically nothing. Zubac has potential to be real good.
Good game between Heat and GS....
Laker fans in here upset they aint irrelevant laughing stocks winning 20 games a season no more.
BGOL says they not talented and Boston's core is better.
Rozier>>Ball
Brown>>Kuz
Taytum>>Ingram
In my opinion and I also feel they have more upside(higher ceiling) then them as well...Now @Mask , if you are New Orleans; would you rather have kuz, ingram and Lonzo or Brown, Taytum, and Rozier???
They kinda don't know what the fuck their talking about. Their still overblowing what Butler told Brown as far as how he felt about the dribble handoff set at top of the key. Butler doesn't like running it. They've slowed down with it. I don't think Butler likes Embiid taking as many 3's as he does too but I blame Brown for that bullshit.
The top of the East
Assuming Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Boston and Toronto all advance, I'm not sure there will have ever been a playoff round with more potential to swing superstar free agency than the conference semifinals in the East. Two of these four must lose. Lose badly, and eyes will wander.
• Even the placid Bucks have four starters entering free agency. Keeping all of them might vault Milwaukee into the luxury tax. Are the Bucks willing to do that if they lose in the second round? How would Giannis Antetokounmpo -- up for a supermax after next season -- react if Milwaukee were to let the wrong person walk?
Amid trade mania, the Bucks have quietly coalesced into a juggernaut. They know who they are. They have found the sweet spot where guys play with freedom and confidence but don't break from the team construct. They can shapeshift into any lineup type. They are No. 4 in offense and No. 1 in defense, with the scoring margin of a champion. Coaches and players say privately that they feel something special brewing -- something some of them have never felt.
Adding Nikola Mirotic makes them even more malleable. (Outbidding the Sixers, who offered two second-round picks, per sources, probably made it sweeter. The Sixers and Pelicans also discussed the general framework of a Mirotic-Markelle Fultz swap before Philadelphia acquired Tobias Harris, sources say. It is unclear how far those talks would have advanced otherwise.) He unlocks more Giannis-at-center lineups, and can even jostle with some centers himself to spare Antetokounmpo wear and tear.
• The other three teams have four combined max-level free agents in Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris, Kyrie Irving, and Kawhi Leonard. The last two -- along with Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant -- will determine the league's balance of power.
The vibes out of Toronto over the past six weeks have been just a little off. The relationship between Kyle Lowry and Masai Ujiri is clearly not hunky-dory. It never has been. Lowry misses DeMar DeRozan. I'm not sure any of that bleeds onto the floor. Lowry will play his game when it matters. But back injuries and Leonard's load management have short-circuited Toronto's chances to build chemistry. Marc Gasol is an undeniable upgrade, but he further unsettles their rotation.
(Charlotte came close to acquiring Gasol before some last-minute haggling, per league sources. The Hornets had a lottery-protected first-round pick ready for most of this week, sources say. Losing Gasol hurts, but they get to keep that pick, and the East is so bad they might limp into the playoffs anyway. Just pray for Kemba Walker, who has zero help.)
Gasol brings a high-IQ game that can calm Toronto's offense in crunch time of playoff games. Toronto got him without sacrificing a first-round pick, or any essential part of their future. (Delon Wright could do well in Memphis, but he was a luxury for Toronto. The return beyond that is uninspiring for Memphis considering Gasol is a franchise icon. The Grizzlies in the end may have moved a year late.) He is one of the league's very best one-on-one post defenders -- an ideal antidote to Joel Embiid. He can drag Embiid away from the rim on the other end.
But does Gasol supplant Serge Ibaka as Toronto's full-time starting center? The Raptors have thrived with Ibaka there. He can play some alongside Gasol, but it might be too late to shift him back to power forward in the starting lineup. Doing that would slide Pascal Siakam to the wing, and Danny Green to the bench. Siakam can play any nominal position, but the Siakam-Ibaka-Gasol trio is a little antiquated. Toronto has gotten where it is by being rangy and fast, heavy with switchy wings. Some rivals are hoping they trade speed for size.
The right answer might be starting Gasol and Siakam, and I would guess that is where they land. Can they sell that to Ibaka?
Maybe the Raptors can toggle between Gasol and Ibaka depending on matchups, as they did with Ibaka and Jonas Valanciunas. Can they sell that to Gasol? Regardless, Toronto is all-in.
• Philly is too, having traded out of its war chest for Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris. (They still have a bundle of extra second-rounders coming to them.) The Clippers did well to snare two first-rounders for Harris on an expiring contract. Teams could not acquire first-round picks, even for good players, without swallowing bad money.
New Orleans wanted a first-rounder for Mirotic; it got four second-rounders instead -- strong return, still. Washington had one Otto Porter Jr. deal on the table that would have brought back a low first-rounder, but only if it took on money extending beyond this season, sources say. The Nets and Grizzlies briefly discussed a swap of Allen Crabbe -- earning $19 million next season -- and Denver's first-rounder for the Garrett Temple/JaMychal Green pairing, sources say. Memphis, facing tax concerns, instead flipped those two for Avery Bradley's semi-expiring deal -- and no picks.
Given that it took zero first-round picks to get Mirotic, Gasol, Porter and Harrison Barnes, the Sixers probably overpaid for Harris. The price telegraphs that they view Harris as more than a rental. He is better than those other guys. Philly's new starting five is loaded. How wonderful to have Harris as your fourth-best player.
Big Fours are rare. The financial cost is enormous -- more than most teams can bear. Typical fourth starters don't handle the ball as much as Harris likes. He's a great shooter, and there are no diminishing returns on shooters. But there will be diminishing returns here, no matter how rigidly Philly staggers their five starters.
Golden State's Big Four works because one almost doesn't have to dribble (Klay Thompson), and a second is content averaging six points per game if he gets to pass a lot (Draymond Green). The fit in Philly will be trickier, and there is a lot riding on them figuring it out in short order. No matter what they say today, it is not a lock that they max out both Butler and Harris this summer. (Both are good bets, and maybe certainties, to get max contracts somewhere. There are just too many slots out there now.)
The playoffs will be pivotal.
• Boston did nothing, but it won the deadline by virtue of the Lakers and Pelicans doing nothing with Anthony Davis. The Celtics are 25-9 since their 10-10 start. Now all they have to do is perform well enough in the postseason to coax Irving into staying. That became an even taller order Thursday.
It's possible Boston has the lowest game-to-game ceiling of all four teams, though it's hard to tell until we've seen them all play a fair bit. But the Celtics feel like the team among this group with the lowest margin of error -- the one that needs to play every second at peak urgency.
what you think about this bro???
LeBron and the Lakers
So what do you do now? Roll over and die like you did in Indiana on Tuesday, when the Lakers looked like the zombie pre-trade-deadline Cavaliers from last season? The Clippers could still make the playoffs, but I'm not sure they want to. The Kings are puppies, even if they are rising. The Lakers with LeBron and trade chips they view as worthy of netting Anthony Davis can't beat out those two teams for the last playoff spot?
The Lakers are behind, with the toughest remaining schedule of those three. I don't care. LeBron has never made excuses. He played a role, directly or indirectly, in destabilizing his team. Fix it. Thursday's thrilling win in Boston is a good start.
what you all think about this??
Harrison Barnes and the new cap space threats
Barnes will have to find a happy medium between the 3-and-D spot-up role he played for the Steve Kerr Warriors and the iso-tastic midrange alpha dog he strived to be in Dallas. More of the former is better, but that player type shouldn't take up 25 percent of a team's salary cap -- and almost never does on a contender. The Kings don't need to worry about that -- yet.
They managed to thread the needle of acquiring a player who helps them win today without compromising much future cap space, or sacrificing a first-round pick. (The Hornets chased Barnes too, but any Charlotte offer including its first-round pick would have come with money the Mavs didn't want, sources say.) The real decision point will come if Barnes declines his $25 million option for next season in hopes of negotiating a long-term deal.
Barnes will have to play a ton of small forward given the logjam of bigs on this roster. (The Kings sniffed around some deals that would have sent out Willie Cauley-Stein, but it's unclear how far they got.)
• The Mavs, meanwhile, enter the max contract derby by sloughing Barnes. That has gone poorly for them since Mark Cuban broke up a title team to chase Howard and Deron Williams. It's hard to see the top-tier guys -- Durant, Leonard, Irving -- giving Dallas a real hearing. Much of the next tier might be too old for the Luka Doncic/Kristaps Porzingis timeline. Unfortunately for Dallas, the restricted free agency crop -- the guys on the Doncic/Porzingis age curve -- is pretty thin.
But those two guys are precocious. They contribute to winning now -- provided Porzingis is healthy. Dallas wiggled its way to another bite at the free agency apple. I bet they are aggressive.
• Keep an eye on the Nets. They have caught the eye of agents representing high-profile players. They are getting ambitious -- with good reason.
• The Clippers have done incredible work over the past two years.
what you all think about this??
There is too much emotion and hope that AD ends up with the Lakers, from ESPN/Fox Sports to the internet, even down to BGOL
As with anything in life, you wait when there is no reason to rush. If yall woke up with Dell Demps' job, you would hold off until everybody can come to the table with their offers, especially when your job and the franchise's future depends on it.
The Lakers offer is not going to change, AD is 25 years of age and offers the Lakers a chance to have a cornerstone player damn near into the 2030s. They aren't just gonna pout like children and say "oh I don't wan't him now". They will still be as interested in him in the summer as they were this winter.
The problem here is that we are looking at it thru the lens of an iconic franchise vs a non-relevant one and there is a subconscious expectation that one should just submit to the other...
As with anything in life, you wait when there is no reason to rush. If yall woke up with Dell Demps' job, you would hold off until everybody can come to the table with their offers, especially when your job and the franchise's future depends on it.
The Lakers offer is not going to change, AD is 25 years of age and offers the Lakers a chance to have a cornerstone player damn near into the 2030s. They aren't just gonna pout like children and say "oh I don't wan't him now". They will still be as interested in him in the summer as they were this winter.
The problem here is that we are looking at it thru the lens of an iconic franchise vs a non-relevant one and there is a subconscious expectation that one should just submit to the other...
They not gonna trade him to the Lakers; if they were they would have already; he will get traded to some other team; if he wants to go to the Lakers, he will have to sign with them when hes a free agent....