It’s been a couple of days since the Lakers renounced their free agent rights to Julius Randle and quickly pivoted to sign Rajon Rondo to a 1-year, $9 million deal. In the instant reaction world of online analysis, one would expect a site like this one to quickly process these events and spit out a […]
Free Agents
Lakers Free Agency: Deconstructing the Madness
With an absolutely torrid opening to the Lakers free agency, I’m still trying to process what exactly just happened and decided the best way was to outline initial thoughts on paper here. The most important thing, of course, is that the Lakers have Lebron James, while Boston and Philly do not, and we are thereby […]
Lakers Renounce Rights to Julius Randle, Make him Unrestricted Free Agent
Julius Randle’s time with the Lakers has come to an end. Per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Lakers renounced their rights in restricted free agency, making Randle an unrestricted free agent on the open market. The Lakers have renounced Julius Randle, making him an unrestricted free agent, league source tells ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July […]
Report: Lakers to Sign JaVale McGee
Okay, things need to slow down now. After signing LeBron, re-signing KCP, and reportedly agreeing to a deal with Lance Stephenson, the Lakers are still at it, apparently. Per ESPN’s Chris Haynes, the Lakers have agreed to a contract with former Warriors big man JaVale McGee: Sources: It’s a one-year, minimum deal to pry away […]
Report: Lakers to Sign Free Agent Lance Stephenson
A whirlwind Sunday that has seen the Lakers add LeBron James and re-sign Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in free agency just got even more wild. Per ESPN’s Chris Haynes, the Lakers will add another wing and former Pacer, Lance Stephenson. Sources: It’s a one-year, $4.5 million deal. https://t.co/DUcYC4EDNo — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 2, 2018 Stephenson’s deal […]
Lakers to Bring Back Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on 1-Year Deal
If you read my post on the Lakers ideal free agency, you’d know that I wanted 5 specific things to happen. The first was LeBron James joining the Lakers. That has happened. The 4th item on my list, though, was for the Lakers to bring back shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Well, per Chris Haynes of […]
LeBron James chooses Lakers in Free Agency
LeBron James will join the Lakers in free agency. He will sign a 4 year contract worth nearly $154 million with a player option for the 4th year. James announced his decision via press release through his agency, Klutch Sports. We’ll have a full analysis later, but my first reaction is full of so many […]
My Ideal Lakers Free Agency
Before we go too far down any path, a few summary bullets of things we sort of know — either because they happened or because the reporting on it is signifying as much: The Lakers have waived Tyler Ennis, clearing his salary off their books. The Lakers have waived Thomas Byrant and cleared his salary, […]
On the Lakers, the Spurs, Kawhi Trade Talks, and Leverage
As reports of the Lakers engaging the Spurs in trade talks to acquire Kawhi Leonard broke on Wednesday, the discussion instantly became one of how those discussions would play out and, more specifically, who had the leverage in the talks. When it comes right down to it, leverage is the crux of every deal that involves […]
Lakers Free Agency has no bad Scenarios
“No pressure on me…Do you know how many Finals I been in? You think I’m worried about this?” “This” is referring to the Lakers free agency plans. And those words came from Lakers President of Basketball Ops, freestyling to the media at Tuesday’s introductory press conference for draft picks Mo Wagner and Svi Mykhailiuk. Magic was […]