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Attorney. @Princeton '12. Former writer for @sbnation at @LakersSBN .
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D’Angelo Russell: 26 years old
Malik Beasley: 26 years old
Rui Hachimura: 25 years old
Mo Bamba: 24 years old
Austin Reaves: 24 years old
Jarred Vanderbilt: 23 years old
Max Christie: 19 years old
This feels a whole lot better.
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Shaq going straight for Wilt’s 100 points with Griffin/LMA guarding him, lmao.
2004 Lakers Superteam In Prime vs. 2021 Nets Superteam In Prime
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He gone.
Kyle Kuzma is reportedly looking for a "sizable" contract extension from the Lakers. Kuzma is extension eligible this offseason.
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Kawhi Leonard and Paul George both turned down LeBron James in the past two years to form a super team. Got no one to blame other themselves for their present predicament.
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Minny just gave Utah more firsts for Gobert than the Lakers gave for AD. Woo boy.
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One of the more endearing parts of the Lakers fanbase as of late has been the relatively uniform happiness for the rebuild era prospects doing well elsewhere after departing.
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Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins getting paid significant sums of money to deliver consistently garbage analysis is a blight upon our society.
“If LeBron James wins his fourth title with three different franchises, I will put LeBron James back in my top-five all-time NBA players."
- Paul Pierce
(h/t
@LakersDailyCom
/ ESPN)
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Rui playing 18 minutes in a matchup with iso-loving big forwards is…inexplicable.
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Caruso with absolutely amazing effort to disrupt Brown's dribble or the Lakers probably lose the game.
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I agree, Tatum should leave for a real championship team and win a title there.
The Celtics would be better off if Jayson Tatum idolized Kevin Garnett rather than Kobe Bryant.
@GlobeChadFinn
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PG: D’Angelo Russell | Jordan Clarkson
SG: Lonzo Ball | Alex Caruso | Josh Hart | Svi Mykhailiuk
SF: Brandon Ingram | Kyle Kuzma | Talen Horton-Tucker | Isaac Bonga
PF: Julius Randle | Larry Nance Jr.
C: Ivica Zubac | Thomas Bryant | Moe Wagner
Over/under for wins this season?
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Woj calling this a "steep price" and what the Pels received "impressive" is so goddamn gross. Same guy was chiming in on how the Lakers didn't have enough for fucking months and now it's ambrosia. What a fucking worm. Pad that Griffin PR.
ESPN story on the Lakers landing All-NBA star Anthony Davis --- for a steep price to the Pelicans.
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All-time defensive coach. With another ring, he’ll enter the annals.
Lakers Defensive Rating this season
With Anthony Davis: 1st (106.4)
Without Anthony Davis: 2nd (106.9)
Without LeBron & AD: 4th (107.9)
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You had a challenge for the Murray soft contact call with 0:58 left. That one’s on you.
Darvin Ham says there were some tough non-calls against the Lakers.
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Give Handy a raise, Lakers.
Steve Nash reportedly wants Lakers assistant Phil Handy on his Nets coaching staff.
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Malik Monk still undoubtedly the best part of the Lakers’ offseason other than finding Reaves.
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Alright build Bron his statue outside Staples ASAP.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James on why he hates Boston Celtics fans: "Cause they racist as fuck."
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See you in LA in 2021, Lonzo.
Pelicans guard Lonzo Ball has signed with Rich Paul of Klutch Sports. “For me, it was an easy call and it was the right time to make that call.”
ESPN Story:
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Obviously big accomplishment for the Suns/Bucks but every time I see the conference title trophy, I remember the below and how blasé the Lakers treated their countless WCF trophies. This one was chilling next to some files in some random office corner.
Best part of the tour of the Lakers facility: the 2003-4 WCF trophy sitting forlorn and forgotten in a corner.
http://t.co/pErTRzsU6x
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Randle with another 40/10/5 game and all of Lakers Twitter swoons harder.
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The Lakers’ scouts keep topping themselves.
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Reaves basically erased Klay down the stretch in the 4Q. Total champion off ball.
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Dennis Schröder’s put up 17.6/5.2/5.2 on .507/.389/.813 (59.4 TS%) over his first five games in a Laker uniform and played very respectable, energetic defense over that same stretch. Dunno about you but that seems like a damned good return for what the Lakers gave up to get him.
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Amy Coney Barrett about to sit on the Court for 40 years. Good job folks who didn’t think this was important in 2016.
BREAKING: Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. Find updates here:
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Schroder/Matthews/LBJ/AD/Marc with an AC/KCP/Kuz/Trez bench. That's disgusting.
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Raising a banner against the below .500 Celtics? Inject it into my veins.
Lakers will be bringing in fans this month starting April 15 against the Celtics.
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No and anyone who still thinks this is absolutely nuts.
Can we all finally agree that Lakers trading all their assets for AD was a L
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If Bron tweets a clip of the Kawhi laugh from his account, Twitter dies, right?
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That moment in which he passes Kobe on the all-time scoring list will be an interesting one on Lakers Twitter.
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Shaq statue can be pulled down Saddam-style for this playoff run.
Shaq and Charles Barkley can’t stop laughing at Anthony Davis for leaving game in a wheel chair with a head injury
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This is great analysis but also has the effect of making me fucking miserable.
This is unbelievable basketball smarts by Alex Caruso. Calls out the exact out-of-bounds play before the Grizzlies move an inch, tells teammates what to do, then puts himself in the perfect spot to force a jump ball.
Also won the jump against a guy four inches taller than him.
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The Lakers cobbled together a young group with no draft picks, a healthy amount of SBL development and targeting reclamation projects and they look enormously better than nearly every vet the team signed this past offseason. Give the scouts more resources.
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Ariza’s been back for a month. Time to close the book on him. Fine if he plays for 10-15 but he has no business starting, especially with SJ showing life on the perimeter.
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The current switch-y, shot blocking, rebounding, three point shooting, high effort Christian Wood is the mythical ideal frontcourt partner we’ve been searching for AD for years. Man is this synergy amazing.
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“I didn’t watch the game.”
Anthony Davis is supposed to be the Lakers best player (he’s not) and he’s got 8 PTS (if you’re playing you’re healthy) vs the Knicks.
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Really should be emphasized: BI erasing PG in the 4Q probably won LA the game since the latter was absolutely unstoppable beforehand. And there's no other player on the team that could have done that. Hart/KCP are too small, Kuz/Beas aren't good enough there. Major props to BI.
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Lakers are going to load manage all season to no end. Five seed here we come.
The NBA is targeting Dec. 22 for the start of the 2020-21 season and a 72-game campaign that finishes before the ‘21 Olympics, sources tell
@TheAthleticNBA
@Stadium
.
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Not to take away from the completely correct point on AC but hat tip to Kuz for fighting over the screen, providing trail coverage, then switching seamlessly after that, and finally stunting toward the ballhandler. Unrecognizable from the guy he was as a rookie.
It’s a crime that Alex Caruso is not going to make an All-Defensive Team
This possession is nuts
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I wholeheartedly support the Clippers in this noble endeavor.
The Clippers and Knicks reportedly have trade interest in Russell Westbrook, via
@KevinOConnorNBA
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Alright, that was fun. Now deal Russ for Hayward/Rozier/PJ and let’s get on with the off-season.
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Caruso/KCP/McDaniels/Bron/AD would have kept opposing teams to 70 every night.
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95% coaching.
Lakers led for 165:24 of the 240 minutes in the series. That’s 69% of the time and lost the series 4-1.
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Think the biggest beneficiary is Reaves, who now gets to be firmly off ball. Overall a plus in my book.
Just in: Spencer Dinwiddie plans to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers after he clears waivers, sources tell
@TheAthletic
@Stadium
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26-year-old on a cost-controlled deal who provides borderline if not already All-Defense level play on that end. Of course every team wanted him.
Report: Lakers coach says ‘every team’ wanted Alex Caruso during trade talks
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Split the MLE, $3M a piece. Works for me!
Former teammates DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry are reportedly interested in a reunion, this time with the
#Lakers
. Both are unrestricted free agents.
(per
@BA_Turner
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The Heat literally couldn’t score when Bam’s man could help crowd the lane and Dragic would have been hunted by Bron as food all series. Carnival barkers with these inane takes.
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Lakers should be interested in both.
Gary Harris and Terrence Ross seem like buyout/trade candidates for Orlando at the deadline, they just have no real role on that team anymore.
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Fire Ham into the sun.
Anthony Davis: “We have stretches where we don’t know what we’re doing on both ends of the floor.”
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Bron/AD/Schroder/Trez/KCP/Caruso/Matthews as a top seven is wild. And Pelinka might not be done yet.
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Reaves checked in for Bradley at the 2:42 mark of the second quarter with the game at 59-57. Lakers then went on a 12-4 run.
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Not a day goes by in which the Lakers’ trade package for AD doesn’t look better and better. Bucks gave up a bonanza of a package for a guy who’s a quarter of the player. The Clippers busted the asset cupboard for PG. And so on.
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It’s an extreme long shot but if the Lakers get Lowry, good fucking luck beating them this season when healthy.
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LeBron James, age 35 in the NBA Finals: 29.8/11.8/8.5/1.2 on a 67.1 TS%. Incomprehensible.
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Russ/THT/1st for Kyrie/Harris. Make it happen.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets are actively engaged in trade discussions centered on a Russell Westbrook-Kyrie Irving package, league sources tell
@YahooSports
:
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I borderline considered THT as an option with no. 11. He's awesome. Incredibly switch-y guy, wide bodied, huge shot upside, young with tons of upside, this is an incredible pick in the mid-second. Home run by the Lakers. Blown away. Well done, Pelinka.
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If you think Rui unlocked the Lakers’ lineup, Lauri would make them a world destroying force.
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Seriously, Bron with 27/7/10/4, Kuz has 16/8/7, and BI has 23/5/3 (in 22 minutes!). The non-Bron vets surrounding the kids have been a giant flaming pile of shit and Luke just compounds it.
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Lakers should go grab Wes now. No sense in letting him get poached by anyone.
Source: Andre Iguodala — a three-time Warriors champion and 2015 Finals MVP — agreed to sign a deal to return to Golden State. The Brooklyn Nets were also a finalist.
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If Vogel has them in the T5 again this year, he’s among the greatest defensive coaches of all time, flat out.
Frank Vogel: I'm good at coaching defense!
Lakers: Fucking prove it.
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According to Woj on SportsCenter right now, Klay would be really interested in the Lakers if LA deals for AD and open up a close-to-max slot in FA. And this is also presuming that GS doesn't offer Klay the full max.
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Really should be emphasized — a gap of 2.4 PIPM is enormous. It’s bigger than the gap between Kawhi and the bottom of this list. Bron and AD are lapping the rest of the league in terms of the level they’re performing at now.
Lebron James and Anthony Davis lapping the field in playoff PIPM (player impact plus minus)
#Lakeshow
Via
@The_BBall_Index
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The Lakers should immediately offer Andre Ingram for Ariza and tell Phoenix that they're trading Ingram for Ariza. GET IT DONE PELINKA.
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Best defender on God’s green earth.
This is a 6’11 big shutting down an All NBA guard for *eight* dribbles…..then making a timely rotation to force a shotclock violation
Destroyer of Worlds
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Bring our son home.
Watch Caruso here. One possession game, under a minute left. Nets tried to screen him four times to set something up for Bridges. They wasted a ton of clock and had to heave up a prayer.
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Lakers should be calling up Atlanta about De’Andre Hunter ASAP.
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Bron/AD and Kobe/Pau never doing this is wild.
Anthony Davis and Rui Hachimura become the first pair of Lakers teammates since Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal (2003) to both score 35+ points in the same game.
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Props to Reaves. This is probably a blowout without him keeping the team alive in the 3Q. He’s probably the most exhausted guy on the team checking Steph near constantly and still came up big on offense.
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BRON ACKNOWLEDGING THE GOAT THIS SEASON IS THE FUCKING BEST.
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I will accept Lonzo, Caruso and LA-native DeRozan breaking the Celtics as my salve for them doing it in a different uniform.
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Oh fuck off Jackson, this was 100% viewed as a tough job when Vogel took it.
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[stares at the Lakers’ incoming MLE offer]
"Is playing for the NBA Championship more important than a contract? Yes. At this time, yes. I’m not twenty anymore."
- Danilo Gallinari
(Via
@Sportando
)
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The amount of stuff that needed to happen behind the scenes for there to be a public venting like this is nuts.
What a statement from Russell Westbrook’s now former agent
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Oh, so now Pelinka in LA is actually working according to Woj.
ESPN Sources with
@ramonashelburne
: Knicks owner Jim Dolan is already considering a front office model that is working with Golden State (Bob Myers) and the Lakers (Rob Pelinka): Hiring a top basketball executive out of the player agent ranks.
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Walker makes a lot more sense if Russ, THT and/or Nunn are gone FWIW.
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THT might be able to switch like Josh Hart onto bigs w/tons more wingspan, can handle super well and create shots like Swaggy, finishes around the rim like Ingram, and creates events on defense like a mini-Lonzo. And he'll still be 18 when the season begins.
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Yup, this will definitely sustain me for an entire summer.
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You play impossibly bad lineups, fall into a huge hole, the good lineups try valiantly to get back into the game, and then fall short since the deficit is too big. This is 100% a coaching problem.
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The rebuilding period broke some Laker fans who don’t realize that these guys would have never started as rookies on a good team.
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One of Pau's best and most glorious moments.
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Rotation guys don’t grow on trees. Keep him around.
“To stay [with the Lakers] would definitely be [priority]
#1
” - Taurean Prince on his upcoming Free Agency
(via
@Trevor_Lane
)
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Something tells me Schroder was not beloved in the locker room last year.
"You're trash!" 🗣
Trezz had some words for Schröder after this bucket
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Kyrie is passing the softest lob on God’s green earth over to Pelinka to dunk. Finish it, Rob.
Stephen A. Smith just said Kyrie is planning on joining the Lakers and is willing to wait until next offseason to sign with them and pair up with LeBron once again
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The butterfly effect if he signs that deal is tremendous. Russ deal doesn’t happen, Lakers keep assets and depth, DS would be overpaid but a productive rotation member.
Dennis Schroder says his former representation advised him to reject the Lakers’ $84M offer
“I would have signed it. I would never just leave money on the table. My mom didn’t raise me that way.”
(Via )
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LeBron: "We continue to believe in [Lonzo], he's our starting point guard, and he's the head of the snake [on defense]."
Woop, woop.
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That Bron/AD/Trez play was like the Kobe/Pau/Bynum 1-4-5 passing sequences, whew.
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Rob told Bron that Jerami Grant is incoming.
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Your reminder that OKC will be about $6M above the tax line next season for just eight players under contract. Can't trade a first rounder until 2024. Best player under 25 is Terrence Ferguson. Oh boy, they have some tough decisions to make to avoid purgatory.
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Pelinka is shameless, lmao.
.
@Kostas_ante13
has rejoined the
@Lakers
as part of his two-way contract.
@Thortontucker
has been assigned to the
#SBLakers
and is expected to play tomorrow night vs the Stockton Kings.
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So Jeanie told Uncle Dennis to pound sand when he asked for illegal cap circumvention and benefits. Good for her.
Improper requests, an investigation, and a superstar chase gone sideways: The untold stories from Kawhi Leonard's free agency that left the Lakers fuming, at
@TheAthletic
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A team made up of current NBA two-way players would win by 30.
@ochocinco
Gonzaga would beat 3-4 NBA teams in a best of 7 series. Magic, Rockets, Thunder, potentially Pistons. They are sitting on legit 6-7 NBA players including 3 absolute studs in Timme, Suggs, and Kispert.
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You can be a retired player and not be an insecure, grumpy member of the no fun police? That’s allowed?
Plenty of good stuff in this convo between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and
@TheSteinLine
, but I love this answer from Kareem on LeBron approaching the NBA scoring record:
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Caruso blocking Schroder is some vicarious Laker fan schadenfreude in spades.
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The roster is imperfect but there’s still plenty of optimization that can happen and Ham is operating at like 20% efficacy right now. AD is back, you traded for Rui, Wenyen’s here and still this small lineup bullshit.
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Yes? That’s the whole fucking point of being a fan? I want my team to win every game and the rest of the league can bask in their awesomeness. What even is this drivel.
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Mills, Ariza, Iggy, Green and Dwight is a great veteran group. Gimme gimme gimme.
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