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chugg21 said:
This is a 3 player draft. I'd take Lonzos expected growth starting from a baseline of 10/6/6 with elite defense at ages 19/20 over anyone in this draft outside of the top 3 and possibly Garland. Hunter & Culver don't excite me in any way.

Also why would they ever consider dealing for Conley when they're entire core is 20-23? That's ridiculous.
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Conley is valuable because he is a solid player and his expiring contract creates cap space. A team like the Bulls could attract FAs a lot easier than a team like Memphis.
Whomever acquires Conley should be a team trying to get better while trying to get cap space for FAs.
Thus Chicago is that type of team and plus they need a veteran and a PG to go with their young foundation.
 
MSOrange said:
Wonder if this has ever happened before?

Top 5 picks make up NBA All-Rookie first team
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The 2003 draft class is Darko away from doing that.
They had LeBron/Melo/Bosh/Wade and then the 7th overall pick Kirk Henrich.

The article also mentions the last time the top five picks were all first-team rookie honorees was in 1984-85 -- a class consisting of Hakeem Olajuwon, Sam Bowie, Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins and Charles Barkley
 
chugg21 said:
This is a 3 player draft. I'd take Lonzos expected growth starting from a baseline of 10/6/6 with elite defense at ages 19/20 over anyone in this draft outside of the top 3 and possibly Garland. Hunter & Culver don't excite me in any way.

Also why would they ever consider dealing for Conley when they're entire core is 20-23? That's ridiculous.
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Also Culver and Hunter can shoot. They have defensive upside potential. One of those guys could blossom into a Paul George type player. I would rather have that upside than a PG who can’t shoot and in the modern NBA is an almost necessity.
 
Alsacs said:
Conley is valuable because he is a solid player and his expiring contract creates cap space. A team like the Bulls could attract FAs a lot easier than a team like Memphis.
Whomever acquires Conley should be a team trying to get better while trying to get cap space for FAs.
Thus Chicago is that type of team and plus they need a veteran and a PG to go with their young foundation.
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They just took on Porters giant contract to grab an above average young veteran because he fit the timeline. Conley would make 0 sense there in every single way. If they just wanted a veteran that won't mature with the kids then they can just give Rubio $20m and not sacrifice an asset.
 
Alsacs said:
Right now the Knicks are less of a clown show than the Lakers.
Steve Mills and Scott Perry are competent NBA adults who know what they are doing.

Jim Dolan hasn’t embarrassed himself since the Oakley incident.
Lakers have Pelinka snaking their legend who is getting killed for being the team President and not the GM.
The owner is wishy washy and doesn’t appear like she wants to anyone to dislike her thus won’t make hard decisions.

The Lakers are more dysfunctional the Knicks have people in place as long as their owner just stays playing music with his band and out of the public you can see the plan.
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He banned a fan from the garden like 2 months ago!
 
Kawhi is seriously limited out there with a quad strain is my guess.
 
chugg21 said:
If Ball gets dealt to Chicago for #7. Is it worth the Pels dealing AD for Ingram, Kuzma, 4 and 7? As the resident Pels fan, I think I'd take it. 3 top 7 picks with 2 good young players is a nice haul. Ingram though presents his own problems if you trade for him. What the hell do you pay him after the season?
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As a Laker fan I don’t want it. With him one year away from free agency, I’d rather take our chances that NO may eventually take a lesser package and that nobody else will take the shot at mortgaging the future for what may be a rental.

I don’t want to give up every promising young guy we have for Davis/35 year old Bron/and all the vet minimum ring chasers we can find to surround them with.

Build the young core, and sign somebody good with our max slots(hopefully AD in a year).
 
The Raptors were 17-5 without Kawhi. They could play without him... except in the playoffs where the entire team played scare and totally relied on him.

The other are stepping up tonight... even Green and FVV are almost acceptable.
 
Horn88 said:
I've heard and read a lot of Lakers fans almost viewing yesterday's Magic appearance as a positive. Now the organization can say Magic was a big cause for the chaos but we're tightening things up now and moving forward in a cohesive direction. Ramona, who is Jeannie's unofficial spokeswoman, is basically playing this card to the public as well.
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two days now of los angeles talk radio calls are still running heavily against magic

this is not to say that they are pro-jeannie or pro-rob; they are not

but magic does not seem to have sentiment on his side, either.
 
Thinking about it more...I mean, that’s basically Ball(#2 pick), Kuzma, Ingram(#2 pick), AND the number 4 pick we lucked into? 3 top 5 picks and a guy who was played like a top 5 pick? Not only no, but hell no. Let’s build with our 4 talented young guys. And we’ve got max slots! And we’ve got LeBron! We don’t need to trade everybody else with a pulse for one guy.

* I have zero faith that we’ll play this right. The Pau Gasol trade was our last great move that counted. The Chris Paul trade curse is real.
 
OrangeDW said:
Thinking about it more...I mean, that’s basically Ball(#2 pick), Kuzma, Ingram(#2 pick), AND the number 4 pick we lucked into? 3 top 5 picks and a guy who was played like a top 5 pick? Not only no, but hell no. Let’s build with our 4 talented young guys. And we’ve got max slots! And we’ve got LeBron! We don’t need to trade everybody else with a pulse for one guy.

* I have zero faith that we’ll play this right. The Pau Gasol trade was our last great move that counted. The Chris Paul trade curse is real.
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Klutch Sports will make sure LeBron gets help.
 
jncuse said:
The Raptors were 17-5 without Kawhi. They could play without him... except in the playoffs where the entire team played scare and totally relied on him.

The other are stepping up tonight... even Green and FVV are almost acceptable.
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I know...all they need is somewhat adequate bench play and they may be fine. It'd be nice to see Siakam heat up a bit.
 
Alsacs said:
Klutch Sports will make sure LeBron gets help.
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A healthy Lonzo, Ingram, Kuzma, whoever we draft at 4, and whatever good players we sign will be plenty of help.

I can truly say just as a basketball fan - even if this was another team we were talking about - I’d much rather see an aging but still outstanding LeBron help a young team find its way and grow into a playoff team and a contender the next few years than try to repeat his last Cleveland run(except being older).

Of course, I’m the kind of fan who was loving watching old MJ leading a young Wizards team into playoff contention. And they probably would’ve made it if he didn’t get hurt. The “ringzzzz” mouth breathers were all crapping on him because he wasn’t the best player in the league winning “ringzzzz” anymore, but I thought it was beautiful stuff that he was leading one of the worst teams in the league the previous year in the playoff hunt. That injury was a bummer.
 
OrangeDW said:
A healthy Lonzo, Ingram, Kuzma, whoever we draft at 4, and whatever good players we sign will be plenty of help.

I can truly say just as a basketball fan - even if this was another team we were talking about - I’d much rather see an aging but still outstanding LeBron help a young team find its way and grow into a playoff team and a contender the next few years than try to repeat his last Cleveland run(except being older).

Of course, I’m the kind of fan who was loving watching old MJ leading a young Wizards team into playoff contention. And they probably would’ve made it if he didn’t get hurt. The “ringzzzz” mouth breathers were all crapping on him because he wasn’t the best player in the league winning “ringzzzz” anymore, but I thought it was beautiful stuff that he was leading one of the worst teams in the league the previous year in the playoff hunt. That injury was a bummer.
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Ingram is a borderline All-Star guy.
Kuzma is just a little defense away from being a stud but Lonzo IMO is a Rajon Rondo player.
He kills a team in the halfcourt.

Lakers are better off trying to get Kevin Love for the 4th pick. Unless LeBron just accepts his role on this team as a mentor and doesn’t care about rings. Beating the Warriors will be tough but LeBron atleast needs a shot at them and can’t be on a rebuilding young team.

I do think Anthony Davis unless he goes to NY will be a Laker the following year unless the Lakers use their cap space.
Klutch will take care of LeBron.
 
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