re: Loomis and demps just got played.

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Again the problem with that is us you can see what the clippers can come up with but we both know they don’t have anything being that they just traded away their best player so who’s left to trade besides picks SGA and who else? The knicks offer is predicated on them getting the #1 pick and not wanting Zion who would bring a new excitement to Madison square along with the possibility of getting KD and kyrie and also being able to sign AD in free agency the following year if he’s traded to Boston and doesn’t stay. And while you say the lakers players didn’t wanna come only 1 person actually said that’s and that’s lavar about lonzo who’s in his 2nd year so he really doesn’t have any say so regarding that.

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Shai is arguably the best prospect between the two teams right now.

And of the Knicks, I'd take 1-3 over any combo that the Lakers have offered so far. Ja Morant, Zion, and RJ Barrett are all better prospects than anything the Lakers have right now outside of Lebron. And none come with developing attitude problems and a father poised to toxify the locker room.

Same goes with Boston. Boston who has Tatum and the increasingly enticing Memphis pick that very well may be unprotected in their more and more likely rebuilding period in the double draft year.

You can try and tell yourself that somehow AD is going to garner less interest than Kawhi did, despite even more adamance and concern about only having one state he was comfortable going to, but again, you Lakers homers seem to be the only ones convinced of this and I am more prone to thinking it is attributable to motivated reasoning over objective assessment of the situation. And when I hear you all trying to argue the Lakers under-developed young guys and questionable journeymen are prizes to behold, I get more convinced of that.

While I agree that those 3 do appear to be better prospects out of the lakers group let’s not forget that the lakers were offering a group and not just that 1 player. So I’d take the lakers 4 vs Morant, Zion or RJ. And add in hart and what would’ve been Zubac also

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I seriously think that you might be the dumbest mother fricker on planet Earth.

Why are yall responding to this idiot? He's obviously a Lakers fan.

No Pacers fan is gonna take the time to sign up here and write up a 1,000 word thread just to tell us we screwed up by not taking the Lakers sorry azz trade offer.

Lebron has maybe a 3 year window. If they can't get a star than he's certainly no better of there than he is here at least basketball wise.

and don't act like it's a given LA gets more stars. They have gone through quite a period to where they were struggling to get people there.

I said this before. This is not the Jerry buss lakers. The expectations people have of them returning to what they were may not happen.

We both know that prior to this their struggles to get top free agents was due to Kobe being there.

Knox and possibly DSJ who at worse is about the same level prospect that Ball is.

Every GM in the NBA would probably take Zion, RJ, or Morant along with Knox and DSJ over what the lakers can offer. Esp with Ingrams contract coming up soon and having to overpay what he will be worth to keep him since he would be the 'prize' of the package if traded for AD.....Hard pass,

I'd rather just screw the other teams if they low ball us and ride out another year with AD trying to win and make him choose passing up guaranteed millions as the highest paid player in the NBA to go play with a broke down late 30's Lebron in 2020 if he wishes....

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Kyrie is most likely to go to NY than LA but either of which punctures the whole Boston deal. KD will go either the same but if your premise is his disdain for the media then LA is the better fit than NY. Boogie is also the other likely option there being that GS can’t resign him. Bottom line is I believe Boston deals falls apart if Kyrie leaves which is looking more and more likely than what it was at the beginning when he said he would resign this summer. So then what’s left is NY who has to get a top 3 pick and be willing to deal it. Mainly the #1 pick for Zion. And while yes Morant and RJ are really good they don’t appear to be close to the prospect that Zion is so why would you give up AD for that and Knox and a pick.

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KD not to LA has nothing to do with their media. For someone looking down on everyone here as a bunch of no-nothing Pels homers, you certainly seem to miss a lot in your enlightened NBA world.

KD truly thought winning in GS would anoint him the best in the league, it hasn't. Between his conference today and the reporting in GS, it's clear he is thinking the only way to get that monkey off his back is going to be him winning on a not ready made championship team. So KD to play with Lebron ain't happening.

Boston deal may fall apart, but the NY deal is still better than the shite package the Lakers are offering, and a Clippers deal is about even keel. Which being the best offer that could possibly be had was originally the argument you wanted to make. That the Pels just fricked up by not taking the shite package that was so good you started to post to make sure you let everyone know. That nothing was going to come down the pipe better. You haven't really made a convincing case so far. On the Knicks alone I still take Ja or RJ over the lakers trash.

My point isn’t even about KD cuz he can go to New York and don’t think for a min that him wanting to so call win by himself will make him ignorant to the fact that he ain’t beating GS or a few other teams without a really good roster with another star. So he ain’t going to NY alone and if they were to trade the pick and Knox and DSJ to the pels well then who will they be left with to compete cuz just him and AD won’t get it done. And again clippers don’t have anything other than some of tier picks and veteran mid tier players. Only 1 young promising player in Shai. So what would you get from them for AD?