Balsamic_duck

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This is not correct. We are still under the tax. Therefore, we have access to the Non-Taxpayer MLE.

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Using the full MLE would put us in the tax which they will absolutely never pay

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What if the option is to win now, then in the high likelihood that it doesn’t work out. You can hit the eject button. Build around Fears, Queen, the Pels Pick in 2027. Then trading Trey, Herb, Zion, and an expiring Dejounte. Rather than just saying here Fears and Queen, you can have the keys. While also putting Fears in that backup PG to continue development and Queen off the bench

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They literally just tried that last year and won 26 games. So who is that helping?

An offseason that would make ME happy would be to trade Trey, Herb, Zion and Dejounte for all the value you can get. Pick a direction and lean all the way into it. My biggest complaint with this franchise is that they’re always riding the fence. Going into this year with Zion on this roster blocking Queen is fricking insane. Why did you give up so much for Queen just to block his playing time by keeping Zion?

Pick a direction, go with a youth movement, give Fears and Queen all the minutes so they can take their lumps and you can figure out if they are prospects worth building around.

That would be so much more enjoyable than watching this team pathetically chase the play in and still probably miss it

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Correct. It seems extremely apparent that ownership would prefer a team that is treadmill over tearing it down and building back up.

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Gayle just wants that playoff revenue. Doesn’t matter if we’re the 8th seed and get swept every year. That’s her goal. She has no intention of ever trying to compete

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It makes no sense whatsoever It’s bizarre It’s exactly the thing that Dumars would do too. Imagine Brad Stevens vs Joe Dumars in negotiations

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You actually might be talking me into it. Brad Stevens would rape Dumars so bad in that trade that Joe’s firing would be expedited. He would be gone in 2 years

I love Jaylen Brown. Trading Trey and multiple picks to build a team around Fears, Brown and Queen is retarded. Brown is 30 and makes 60m/yr. Fears and Queen are no where near ready to win. That team would struggle to make the play in for the next 3 years then Brown is 33 and due a huge extension

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You can always tell who doesn’t belong in recruiting conversations when they say something like this.

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Yeah these guys refuse to come to grips with the fact that 95% of the reason a players chooses a school these days is money

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Stuff like this is why I didnt have a problem with Lebron using his influence to get the Lakers to waste a draft pick on Bronny.

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Yeah I never understood why people were upset with that. He was a late 2nd round pick, those guys very rarely even play. Drafting Bronny brought more attention, sold more jerseys and made the lakers more money than anyone else they could’ve taken there

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Shamit brought up something that I didn't catch... Mosley brought up his conversations with and the vision of Joe, Troy, and... Jordan. Joe Dumars's son that they hired

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He also said there’s still no analytics department after Joe fired them all

He’s literally Willie Green 2.0 he’s just a rah rah coach that couldn’t design a competent offense to save his life. The guys with play hard for him for a season, maybe two, then his message will get stale and they’ll tune him out

Anyone but Ham or Mosley at this point