re: Does it make anyone else happy that we just trade raped the Lakers?

Did you? I actually thought the deal worked for both sides. Lakers are not like other teams, they never really build from the draft. They are a name players want to go to and they didn’t give up Kuzma (which was the one piece they wanted to keep).

So Pelicans get some young stars and future draft picks but who knows what those picks will be yet. Lakers are a team very capable of making seven playoff appearances. Yes Lebron will be gone but like I said players want to play there and with AD they are attractive to join for years to come. So the draft picks might be out of the lottery.

Plus the Pelicans just took the Ball drama off their plate. The kid is good but the dad is a cancer. Think this was a good deal for both especially saying the rumor was nobody else had an offer for the Pels.