The NBA Lottery is tomorrow night (go Celtics) but that doesn’t impact the Lakers, picking 19th. The draft isn’t the fast way to improve this team. Instead, let’s look at the available free agents at the point guard, plus power forward and center spots. These are spots the Lakers need an upgrade But to do […]
Free Agents
Whither Webber?
It’s been the hot topic in the comments, but I wanted to wait until there was proven interest from the club before really delving into it. Apparently the Laker front office is interested. The Times reported that the Lakers are one of five teams on Webber’s short list, according to his agent. Last night David […]
Vlade’s Perception
Since we first started talking about the Lakers big off-season move, the signing of Vladimir Radmanovic, the consensus has been something summed up by Tex Winter in an interview on Roland Lazenby’s blog: “In this offense, he’s gonna get some shots,†Winter said of Radmanovic. “He’ll get more open shots than he’s ever had in […]
Signing Day
It’s official, the Lakers have inked Vladimir Radmanovic and Shammond Williams to free agent deals. Vlad, as had been long reported, is getting the full mid-level exception for five years, which will total about $31 million. Williams is getting a one-year deal for $1.75 million. It’s pretty clear I’m not on Shammond’s bandwagon, but the […]
Shammond Williams: A quick look
I was holding off on writing about this because I couldn’t believe the Lakers were actually going to go after him — this is as illogical a move as the Lakers have made in my memory. Let’s quote from regular commenter here Xavier, who lives in Barcelona (where Shammond played last season) ACB (Spanish league) […]
Our Man Vlad Is Rad
One of the two off-season priorities for the Lakers was to get some more scoring punch out of the three spot, and it took all of one day to do that. The Lakers apparently have agreed in principle to sign Vladimir Radmanovic to a deal for the full MLE for five years (that starts at […]
Free Agency Opens
Right after midnight, Mitch Kupchak made a phone call or two. Not the kind of midnight phone call I used to make back in my single days after stumbling home from a bar, although I guess we were both looking for a little help. The Lakers are looking for help in two key areas from […]
Marcus Banks: A quick look
As the summer wears on, we’ll try to take a closer look at some of the potential future Lakers, both through free agency or a trade. Generally, I think mid-June is a little too soon for this because we are in the midst of the silly season of draft-day trade rumors. However, the rumors of […]
Notes at 3 am — Draft Thoughts
Let’s start some draft and free agent talk and thoughts, basically some thinking out loud as we start to hear about workouts and look at prospects. • By the way, wise Portland fans are putting a good face on yesterday. Now, if this were next year and Greg Oden was in the draft….. • In […]
The Vision Thing
In the heat of the playoffs, I got an email from a new Web site asking bloggers to play GM-for-a-day and tell us what their team should do in the off-season. I’m not sure how you do that in any serious detail yet — free agency signings can’t happen for two months (July 10) and […]