Excuse me while the salary cap and roster construction nerd in me takes a few paragraphs up in this space… The Lakers free agents and draft picks are now signed. If you follow the team through any of their various social media platforms, you’ve seen the pictures. LeBron. KCP. Moe Wagner. Rajon Rondo. Isaac Bonga. […]
Lakers Analysis
Lakers Center Rotation will be Tested with Brook Lopez now a Buck
The Lakers flurry of free agent signings has ground to a halt. After the moves made a week ago to renounce Julius Randle and sign Rajon Rondo, the front office has seemingly put their phones on airplane mode while hoarding their remaining $5.5 million in cap space and clinging to their two final roster spots […]
Star Hunting and the Lakers Salary Cap
With Lebron so quickly in the fold, we know that Magic and Pelinka will now aggressively (but opportunistically) pursue other available stars in their quest to build an enduring dynasty around Lebron. The Kawhi saga endures, and every day we hear rumblings that another possible option may materialize – Butler, Lillard, Kemba, Wall, McCollum, a […]
On the Lakers Rajon Rondo Addition
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 […]
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 […]
On the LeBron James Lakers and the Seismic Shift of a Franchise
Zoom out. Look at the jerseys that hang on the wall inside Staples Center. They are a list of league altering talents, players whose names are disproportionately at the top of every discussion about the greatest basketball players to ever play. Magic. Kareem. Kobe. West. Baylor. Wilt. Mikan. The list goes on and on, but […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Draft for Need? The Lakers Have Some Holes to Fill
In our most recent podcast, Pete and I discussed the current Lakers team through the prism of the playoffs. High stakes basketball, with refined gameplans and laser focus on exploiting any available weakness, expose the flaws of a team and offer a final determination on whether their strengths are enough to overcome them. The Lakers […]