NBA salaries are crazy.

Rosters are smaller so less people to pay, plus it's the most superstar driven sport.

you should go back and read through this thread then.


Lakers are on like Plan F cause everything keeps failing. 500k tampering fine for Paul George and they never even got him. I guess thats why you have Magic in the FO.

To go from George, Kawhi, Lebron hype. To just Lebron and an ACL injured Boogie Cousins who is a career loser/stat compiler? Thats a huge bucket of fail.

LMAO
Everyone thought he was until a week or so ago.

Lose to the Sixers

Lebron ball washer Nick Wright has tweeted out Lebron has made his decision and will announce it Tuesday morning.

With Nick's history I am putting my money on Thursday.

Boogie Bron Ingram is better than Injured Embiid Simmons and Fultz.

It's also better than Love and JR Smith

Philly already lost a couple of shooters off the bench too. LA has a nice young core of depth sign Lebron and Boogie and a few followers that team is pretty stacked.

Not sure why you keep saying this. Embiid actually played in more games than Cousins last year and isn't coming off an achilles injury. That can be a pretty serious injury for a basketball player.

Um Embiid has missed over 100 games in just 3 seasons.

I'm guessing Cleveland then. Lebron would have to be a total idiot to let words like "decision" and "announcement" ever be associated with him leaving Cle after what happened last time.

Yeah but this year most of that was just trying to give him rest.

I agree Embiid is injury prone but it's not like Cousins is a sure thing. An achilles injury is a big deal to a basketball player. There's a pretty good list of guys who never fully recovered.

Especially guys that size. Seems like Brand all over again.

Lebron turned down $34m this year, if he went back would he be making more? I thought year one was below that??

its also still a 2nd round exit to Houston or Golden State as opposed to a garunteed finals in a weak East.

No. LeBron, Boogie and Ingram would beat Houston and challenge GS. You act like Ingram isnt a guy who's gonna average 20 a game.

Bron to la

Awesome, going to be fun watching the Warriors beat the Lakers in the playoffs.

I don't follow the NBA to well, but I'm seeing reports of Lebron to LA.

It's funny that Draftkings live breaks news faster than any other sports news platform

whoa crazy. If they have a verbal that kawhi will go there in free agency next year then I suppose it makes sense. He can lose in LA as easy as Cleveland for the next year

LeBron is a Laker you all can eat a big bag of dicks, ha ha!

They need to trade for kawhi, sign boogie and capella

Free agents will be coming to be a part of the 17th championship for the Lakers.

Spurs just lost a ton of leverage. Or Lebron told them all along that he's coming and they've been engaged in talks with that in mind.

hahahahahahahh no chance thats beating Houston or Golden State

Ingram has done nothing in the NBA so far and Boogie is a career loser coming off an ACL injury and you just think that instantly competes with the two bigger powerhouses in the NBA? hahahahahha

Lmao MCAJ ****ing lawst

I guess LeBron wants to lose to the Warriors earlier in the playoffs.

Lakers beat Houston twice last year without LeBron I think this year they might just sweep them.

Who is the Kobe nut hugger on CP? Dude shows up during the finals to shit on Lebron and make outlandish claims of Kobe being better (LOL). That dude probably has a Lebron jersey order put in already.

Not everything lasts forever. The Warriors will lose eventually.

Cleveland essentially lost LeBron last summer when dumbshit Dan Gilbert fired Chris Grant (who was rumored at the time to be in the process of trying to trade for Paul George), and giving in too soon/easily to Kyrie Irving’s trade demand.

and your sleeping on Julius Randal. That kid is legit ****ing good.

at least he's taking on a Challenge this year and is not breezing through a weak East.

Do they deal Lonzo now? Doesnt seem like much of a fit

Can they get boogie still? That'd be sweet

Is there any way Boston doesn’t make the NBA Finals from the East now?

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That fanbase just got more insufferable.

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As unsurpsing as it should be I’m still shocked it actually happened

This is like Rodgers going to the Pats a few years after Brady retires. Weird.

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None. I now expect them to make a big push for Leonard with that door wide open.

Depends if the 76ers land Kawhi. Looks like right now they are the favorites.

This is why I don't do predictions.

Well Nick Wrong still living.up to his name anyways.

And Lebron makes it official.


https://i.imgur.com/Nr49mIa.jpg

Didn’t this thread have several posters saying LeBron was too scared to leave the East?

LMAO

I wasn’t one of them, but this has nothing to do with winning IMO

This is a lifestyle/life after basketball move. 100%.

Once they trade for kawhi it’ll be better

Magic Johnson and LeBron James are two of the all time greats. Players are going to want to go there.

He was for many years. Dude is at the end now so I don't think this about winning. Just having fun and enjoying the last ride.

Man, I just can’t see the Spurs helping the Lakers build a super team without raping them in a trade.

if they dont, its a complete failure to assemble a super team and just a bunch of over hyped and overrated role players by their homer fanbase (Ingram, Kuzma, etc)

Well PG didnt.

Of course that played a role too, but it’s a perfect match of the two. It’s the same reason Peyton chose Denver. I still think he ends up in LA with or without Magic though.

All of BX lost

and that 1 year 12 million deal for KCP means now no Cousins no Capela outright, they would need to move Randle

so lol for that. This roster is a complete failure

Well now PG can have fun being rich and not winning a damn thing in OKC.

I’d trade Ingram if that gets you kawhi.

I can’t believe the rockets ended up giving cp3 a max deal.

I dunno that the rockets are gonna be what they were this year next season

o to do with your post

I’d imagine they end up with kawhi. He wants to be in LA and I doubt lebron goes there without some kind of assurances

It's not like LeBron had a ton of options in today's NBA.

Make no mistake the Lakers will be contenders in the West. Although LeBron likes to get his way, so I'm guessing the roster will look different in September than it does now. Even Windhorst was just saying on ESPN that some of the players celebrating on Twitter probably should hold up because there's no guarantee they'll all be on the roster.

Stephen A. Smith saying he’s heard that Kawhi may sit out next season rather than play for the Spurs if they don’t trade him... i.e. what he basicallly did most of this past season.

agreed especially to someone that is never healthy.

From my understanding if he tried that the Spurs would put him on the no show\retired list and he still wouldn't be a FA.

Something I didn't know but Windhorst was saying tonight on ESPN that USA Basketball starts up in a couple of weeks and Pop is coaching the team and Kawhi will be on the team. There is probably some hope there that maybe they can patch things up.

They have no incentive to rush a trade at this point so that makes sense.

Lebron to the Lakers. 4-years 154 million, per ESPN on my phone.

Here is a link:

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...3-million-deal

Commish will need to step in if that happens.

Yep plus I really don't think they want to do a deal with the Lakers.

shit I totally forgot about IT being on the Lakers. I wonder how fast he will be kicked to the curb

Right. Both Boston and Philly have better assets to offer and you keep him out of the West for at least 1 year.

He's a free agent. They basically have no players. Believe it is just Deng, Ball, Ingram, Hart, and Kuzma under contract.

"super team"

Can you imagine dealing with Leonard, Lebron, and Ball? Walton would be on a shrinks couch nightly

thanks and it is a good thing he is a FA because there was no way he was staying with Lebron coming.

well they just signed Pope to a 1 yr deal.

Why not? If they didnt he was gone and the were the best team in the west with him and probably a finals team if he didnt get hurt.