No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
For a rental. Imagine if we lost RJ, Mitch, DSJ, Knox, and two other first round picks. For a rental.
We'll see how this all plays out yet.
RE: RE: But Knicks fans told me they had the better package? Â
No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
I look forward to checking back in a year and seeing Knicks fans talking about another star coming to them who inevitably doesn’t.
No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
I look forward to checking back in a year and seeing Knicks fans talking about another star coming to them who inevitably doesn’t.
Dumbest fan base in sports.
Almost as much as you not understanding the difference between the Knicks being able to put a better package together amd actually putting a better package together or reading that once KD wemt down that changed the Knicks plans. But keep on keeping on.
You won't be such a whiny bitch once you experience basketball in June.
Happy birthday Jon!
Who is whining? You are beating your chest like you just accomplished something based on false info and then criticize an entire fan base. You want me to be like you? No thanks. I'd rather punch myself in the dick repeatedly.
to criticize the Knicks amd their fans how about you actually try being excited for acquiring AD? You are more comcerned with thinking you are right and more comcerned with Knicks fans. Do you root for the Jets because you act like a Jets fan that is more concerned with being better than the Giants tham how their team actually is.
How would that be different from any other day as a Knicks fan?
I wouldn't have to listen to you.
Yet you're responding to my every post?
^That is an NBA champion btw.
And a rapist. I'm responding because you act like you are 12. Again, you got AD so what do you do on this thread? Oh, that's right, you just go after Knicks fans.
yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
For a rental. Imagine if we lost RJ, Mitch, DSJ, Knox, and two other first round picks. For a rental.
We'll see how this all plays out yet.
AD may want to stay in L.A. But if he went over to the Clippers — who have a nice team these days and are ahead of the Lakers — heads would explode in Laker world.
unprotected? Theoretically this could turn out to be a disaster trade for the Lakers. If they don't win it all next season and Davis bolts then the Lakers could regret this trade.
I doubt any of this happens but it is a possibility to consider.
I think my head would explode if Kyrie signed on with the Lakers, and as impossible as that might have been a week ago, I don't think it is any longer.
Maybe now LeBron will have someone to sit next to on the bench Â
With lakers then brooklyn. That’s an interesting dynamic of perosnalities and a ton o injury risk. It’s only a matter of time until Lebron has a major injury. The Kyrie Lebron Davis dynamic may end up making Davis want to leave. That would be best case scenario for knicks.
Lost the Zion sweepstakes
KD ruptures his Achilles
AD lands elsewhere
Kyrie is (likely) headed to Brooklyn (fine by me)
Kawhi wins a title in Toronto (making them a more likely landing spot)
RE: RE: But Knicks fans told me they had the better package? Â
No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
AD won’t be hitting FA next year, he’s signing long term with the Lakers. This has been said over and over again. AD and Lebron share the same agent in Rich Paul, they’ve already mapped this out, AD will be retiring as a Laker.
Lost the Zion sweepstakes
KD ruptures his Achilles
AD lands elsewhere
Kyrie is (likely) headed to Brooklyn (fine by me)
Kawhi wins a title in Toronto (making them a more likely landing spot)
For me personally, the only issue was KD. We knew well in advance that getting the top pick was most likely not happening. We just gave ourselves the best chamce possible. I wanted a top 3 pick and possibly top 4. We got that. Expecting anything more was just unrealistic. Hoping is a better word for mose.
AD was never a priority for me. Makes no sense to gut the team imo. Yes, on paper, he is worth the players we'd give up in a vacuum but it isn't a vacuum. We need to build a team and we are headed in the right direction.
Kyrie isn't making or breaking any offseason for me. I think most Knicks fans were in the sams boat as me where if he was needed to get KD then great. If not, that is fine too. He is a talent but he also comes with a lot of baggage.
Leonard was never a real possibility in my eyes but with KD going down I think he is more of a target now than before KD's injury.
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Ya know the Lakers will add Kyrie, Kemba or Butler, and the Clippers will stay second fiddle.
I still get the feeling kyrie ends up on the knicks with KD...
Knicks sign a bunch of vets along with deandre and try to make a playoff run and hope kd can come back for playoffs
Love to eat my words in a year, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect KD to have any positive effect being less than a year out from a ruptured achilles by next years playoffs. It would be big if he was cleared / healthy enough to play, but it'll take at least a few months if not an entire season to get to wherever his post injury 100% will be, as well as to adjust to his weakened ups & quicks. Tho IMO his game might be 'easiest,' it will still take a decent amount of time to do so you'd think
Kyrie is going to Brooklyn, KD will probably join him. Â
Esp at the cost (and assuming NO wasn't big on our guys so wanted more picks), I'm fine they didn't get AD. Much better to go full bore in FA next year, whether that's w/ a healing KD (and Kyrie) or w/ the young squad and all the picks for draft or a future, more sensible trade than an AD rental
Still hope they find a way to go all out on Kawhi, even chase ACL Klay, but obviously that seems a pipe dream
Well, now we know why the Vegas made the Lakers the favorite Â
to win the 2020 NBA title when the odds came out yesterday. They knew.
They are clearly in win-now mode, which is smart for them. LBJ is in the autumn of his career, he's in win-now mode, too. Plus the Clippers were threatening to make the Lakers the second team in L.A. That is almost impossible but the Lakers were so bad and so dysfunctional, and the Clippers have been run so well, it could have happened. Now, at least the Lakers go into the season with championship aspirations.
But they seem to be betting their future on being the Lakers — which means being a place that players want to go to for their own reasons — rather than being good at finding young players. Laker fans are used to imported stars going back to Wilt, Kareem and Shaq, they won't mind.
Kris Middleton. He plays like an old man. I hate his game. I think I could be talked into a max for D Russell and a 1 year deal for randle. I think Russell is good value at that price and also could be used in a deal down the road if needed to get a bigger star.
AD won’t be hitting FA next year, he’s signing long term with the Lakers. This has been said over and over again. AD and Lebron share the same agent in Rich Paul, they’ve already mapped this out, AD will be retiring as a Laker.
I’m sure that’s the plan. But a lot can happen in a year, and I’m quite sure Davis will have no compunction about leaving if things don’t go well.
Arrogant and ignorant post.
Think the Lakers were bidding against themselves.
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Arrogant and ignorant post.
No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
This post embodies all the Lakers fans' takes on BBI. Delusional.
yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
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yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
For a rental. Imagine if we lost RJ, Mitch, DSJ, Knox, and two other first round picks. For a rental.
We'll see how this all plays out yet.
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No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
I look forward to checking back in a year and seeing Knicks fans talking about another star coming to them who inevitably doesn’t.
Dumbest fan base in sports.
It makes a lot more sense for the Lakers to go all in considering they have LeBron and adding AD makes them an instant contender.
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No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
I look forward to checking back in a year and seeing Knicks fans talking about another star coming to them who inevitably doesn’t.
Dumbest fan base in sports.
Almost as much as you not understanding the difference between the Knicks being able to put a better package together amd actually putting a better package together or reading that once KD wemt down that changed the Knicks plans. But keep on keeping on.
Happy birthday Jon!
Happy birthday Jon!
Who is whining? You are beating your chest like you just accomplished something based on false info and then criticize an entire fan base. You want me to be like you? No thanks. I'd rather punch myself in the dick repeatedly.
How would that be different from any other day as a Knicks fan?
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I'd rather punch myself in the dick repeatedly.
How would that be different from any other day as a Knicks fan?
I wouldn't have to listen to you.
What hype?
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I'd rather punch myself in the dick repeatedly.
How would that be different from any other day as a Knicks fan?
I wouldn't have to listen to you.
Yet you're responding to my every post?
^That is an NBA champion btw.
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I'd rather punch myself in the dick repeatedly.
How would that be different from any other day as a Knicks fan?
I wouldn't have to listen to you.
Yet you're responding to my every post?
^That is an NBA champion btw.
And a rapist. I'm responding because you act like you are 12. Again, you got AD so what do you do on this thread? Oh, that's right, you just go after Knicks fans.
lol
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They took the Laker deal
yea...I hope the knicks management wouldn't be stupid enough to trade 3 1st round picks. Thats what got them AD, not Lonzo, Ingram and josh hart. Great deal for the pelicans regardless
For a rental. Imagine if we lost RJ, Mitch, DSJ, Knox, and two other first round picks. For a rental.
We'll see how this all plays out yet.
I doubt any of this happens but it is a possibility to consider.
Time to booze some more today.
I still get the feeling kyrie ends up on the knicks with KD...
Knicks sign a bunch of vets along with deandre and try to make a playoff run and hope kd can come back for playoffs
Lost the Zion sweepstakes
KD ruptures his Achilles
AD lands elsewhere
Kyrie is (likely) headed to Brooklyn (fine by me)
Kawhi wins a title in Toronto (making them a more likely landing spot)
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No one said that. People said the Knicks could top if they wanted to. Obviously, they didn't. Check back here next year when AD can hit FA for real and see what's what.
AD won’t be hitting FA next year, he’s signing long term with the Lakers. This has been said over and over again. AD and Lebron share the same agent in Rich Paul, they’ve already mapped this out, AD will be retiring as a Laker.
Lost the Zion sweepstakes
KD ruptures his Achilles
AD lands elsewhere
Kyrie is (likely) headed to Brooklyn (fine by me)
Kawhi wins a title in Toronto (making them a more likely landing spot)
For me personally, the only issue was KD. We knew well in advance that getting the top pick was most likely not happening. We just gave ourselves the best chamce possible. I wanted a top 3 pick and possibly top 4. We got that. Expecting anything more was just unrealistic. Hoping is a better word for mose.
AD was never a priority for me. Makes no sense to gut the team imo. Yes, on paper, he is worth the players we'd give up in a vacuum but it isn't a vacuum. We need to build a team and we are headed in the right direction.
Kyrie isn't making or breaking any offseason for me. I think most Knicks fans were in the sams boat as me where if he was needed to get KD then great. If not, that is fine too. He is a talent but he also comes with a lot of baggage.
Leonard was never a real possibility in my eyes but with KD going down I think he is more of a target now than before KD's injury.
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Ya know the Lakers will add Kyrie, Kemba or Butler, and the Clippers will stay second fiddle.
I still get the feeling kyrie ends up on the knicks with KD...
Knicks sign a bunch of vets along with deandre and try to make a playoff run and hope kd can come back for playoffs
Love to eat my words in a year, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect KD to have any positive effect being less than a year out from a ruptured achilles by next years playoffs. It would be big if he was cleared / healthy enough to play, but it'll take at least a few months if not an entire season to get to wherever his post injury 100% will be, as well as to adjust to his weakened ups & quicks. Tho IMO his game might be 'easiest,' it will still take a decent amount of time to do so you'd think
Am I screwing around? Kinda. But with our luck, I'm totally expecting it.
(Chugging another beer).
Still hope they find a way to go all out on Kawhi, even chase ACL Klay, but obviously that seems a pipe dream
They are clearly in win-now mode, which is smart for them. LBJ is in the autumn of his career, he's in win-now mode, too. Plus the Clippers were threatening to make the Lakers the second team in L.A. That is almost impossible but the Lakers were so bad and so dysfunctional, and the Clippers have been run so well, it could have happened. Now, at least the Lakers go into the season with championship aspirations.
But they seem to be betting their future on being the Lakers — which means being a place that players want to go to for their own reasons — rather than being good at finding young players. Laker fans are used to imported stars going back to Wilt, Kareem and Shaq, they won't mind.
AD won’t be hitting FA next year, he’s signing long term with the Lakers. This has been said over and over again. AD and Lebron share the same agent in Rich Paul, they’ve already mapped this out, AD will be retiring as a Laker.
I’m sure that’s the plan. But a lot can happen in a year, and I’m quite sure Davis will have no compunction about leaving if things don’t go well.