What Are the Lakers and Warriors Doing? Plus, the Lauri Markkanen Sweepstakes | Group Chat 

Put chapters in please

I can’t wait until lebron retires. The most tired topic of all time and I understand that it’s deserved but I’m so so so so tired of it.

Warriors talk 16:10

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That Wiseman pick really f-ked the Warriors over.

"champing at the bit" "perplexion". Bunch of road scholars.😂

The Warriors cut salary as they desperately needed to do. They'll mouth words about wanting to play the highest level etc. But anyone with eyes can see serious playoff basketball is not really in their future baring some sort of miracle injury curse on all their opponents or perhaps some totally unexpected leap from one of the young guys that has no historical precedence. As a Warriors fan I'm just happy I won't have to watch Klay shuck us out of games while playing no D and have absolutely no one hold him accountable.

Justin went full American with Finnland xD

Perplexion is totally a word

Personally id be wanting cason wallace back in a deal if i were talking with the thunder

Where's the Ingram to Cleveland for Jarrett Allen convo?!?

The Lakers are NOT in the apron, and LeBron confirmed he would take less from his max to ensure they don't.

Need a back up big and scoring SG or SF. Austin and Lebron run point

Yeah, that's my jazz. Screw up tanking in the years where it makes sense and tank in the years with bad drafts. Being a Jazz fan is painful. Announcers think we have a "savvy fanbase", but we don't. They wet themselves if the Jazz are bad and don't understand that in order to win you have to tank in this league.

Timestamps

I get OKC is young but growth isn’t always linear and so are these other teams. What if ANT becomes an MVP candidate? What if McDaniels becomes a better shooter? What if Luka takes another leap? What if D Live becomes an all defense level player? On the other hand what if Chet struggles at the 4? What if J Will looks worse without the 5 out spacing? They’re young, they’re great, I expect contention, but people are assuming all the positives of a young team without accounting for the swings and not applying the same positive outlook to other young teams.

If I’m the warriors I think I sort of wish Steph would just ask for a trade right now. Get the rebuild started, ship off Steph and draymond for an enormous return while you still can. He’s not going anywhere tho

Al Horford with his basement ahh defense.

Dame and a Lopez for Curry

So here is how far off the warriors were last season - 3 more wins they are 6th - 5 more wins they are 4th - 11 more wins they are 1sr So here is the teams ahead of them after FA and draft -Thunder made big depth improvements + 5 games -Nuggets lost KCP -3 games -Timberwolves taking big swings -1 game at least this season -clippers lose Paul George -6 games -Mavs lose defense and gain offense Even -suns no changes so even - Lakers no changes - 1 game cause of rookie coach mistakes - Pelicans - solid pick up + 4games - kings no real changes so even. Honestly I think the warriors improved the bench to the point that they ride depth to 50 wins this season so what they’ve done makes sense to me.

Also. When we're talking about Detroit giving up $52M for 2 years for Tobias? Can we talk about how teams need to spend a minimum of 90% of the cap?

great listen

Did Wos just say Joker is not good enough to be a championship center? Because Joker is not as good at defense as Horford.

klay going to start pouting if he get bench

Darius Garland to Orlando Magic 🪄

The Warriors owe something to Steph and Klay and Greene and have managed to draft and cultivate a younger generation of players. This is not what the Lakers are, the owe nothing to Lebron. They don't need to drag this thing. They know they are not winning and they don't have any young talent to continue once Lebron decides to leave. It's unthinkable what they are doing. p.s there is not 7 feet version of Klay, Klay is the second best shooter of all time. Someone who shoots well, is not a replacement to that.

Their best player isn’t 40. Lmfaooooooo

Wtf is going on with the “Shure” label on middle dudes microphone. How the hell is it wobbling? 😂 sorry random af

Demar would be a poor fit.

Lebron was never leaving, wtf are you talking about? Lakers had more options for contracts if he opted out, which he did.

Horford Blasphemy

I paused at 35min bc I have a perfect solution for the warriors and the jazz: First, the Oakland As move to Salt Lake City and change the name to the Utah Baseball Friends or whatever they want. Next, Utah sends their basketball team to Oakland and they change their name to the Oakland As Now, GS can trade Steph into Oakland's cap space and no one's feelings are hurt. I live in Oakland and I'm convinced that people don't even watch baseball, it's just a great logo and color scheme and people want to rep their city. If the A's were a basketball team, you would have ZERO problems attracting free agents. Oakland is a cool place that a young black millionaire would love to be a part of. Only deterrent is California state tax I've already had this idea but it was a trade with the san jose sharks, i thought Oakland would love hockey if it gave it a chance, Raiders on ice? The elephant is standing on a hockey puck holding a hockey stick, easy edit. But Oracle in green and gold? The elephant standing on a basketball, holding the rim in its trunk like he Shaqd that thing off the backboard? Cmon man🔥

Where did you hear Klay didn’t want to play for the Lakers??? They don’t have cap space! They offered Dlo in a sign and trade and the warriors declined. Why does everyone think that the lakers can just go out and sign anybody despite being ridiculously over the cap??

The Lakers had only one serious move. Trade Lebron, get back young talent and start rebuilding and in the mean time have AD lead the team.

It’s going to be an interesting season. Despite the bad offseason, I still believe in my Nuggets even though Woz & Rob no longer do.

It’s so obvious that this current Laker era is over, just start over and rebuild. Stop pretending you are still a contender

OH GOD NO THE LAKERS AND WARRIORS HAVEN’T HAD ANY MAJOR FREE AGENT SIGNINGS THE WORLD IS COMING TO A END EVERYONE SEEK SHELTER WHO CARES!!!! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Good ol Xenophobic Wos

One Utah factor may be that all the other GMs have become wary of (or frustrated with) trading with Ainge.

Can we talk about the cost of living between states and cities? Whether you're a coach or a player. 🤔

lakers gonna be trash all over again

what was the record of the Lakers, when Ham finally let the team that made it to the western conference finals play. The lakers still have AD, and the team that only few years Ago made it to the western conference final. I hope with a better coach than Ham. GS got worse, Denver got worse, clippers got worse. Lakers owned OKC in the regular season. If adding Caruso and Hastlestian changes that watch basketball. Luka and Irving are not better than AD and Lebron.

Wos only has hot takes, no substance

Ham and Taurean Prince are gone that's worth like 7-8 more wins 🎉

I’m shocked the dude in the middle actually gets paid to talk about basketball

This is the last szn we see BOTH Lebron and AD in a Lakers Jersey. The truth is the Westbrick trade essentially closed the championship window for Lebron & Co. The Lakers are now in a place of limbo. Lebron is too old and makes too much money to trade the future for. I think it’s best to blow it up and get what you can get for Lebron and AD and hope Rob Pelinka doesn’t find a way to fuck up the re-build. Feels alot like the end of that last Kobe contract.