All signs point to KD not wanting to sign with LA. He wants his own team, if he just wants to win rings he’ll stay with the Warriors, it wouldn’t make sense to go to the Lakers at all. He’s NY bound if anything.
Kawhi possibly. But it’s all speculation. You’re not even favorited to get AD anymore so I wouldn’t get too excited.
You and i dont know what KD wants, its simply all speculation at this point until summer. Remember this time last year with James, it was either staying in Cleveland, going to Philly or sign and trade to Houston. LA had little chances, especially without a 2nd star coming as well. Then George resigned with OKC. Then the very next day, James is a Laker. If someone told you that February last year, how would you react? So yeah, we dont have even a clue yet about FA, but fact is, Lakers have the cap space to offer KD the max, so atleast we did prepare. I too think Kawhi is far more likely but again, who the fuck knows.
AD drama has just begun. Summer-Next trade deadline/until hes traded will be madness. I dont think AD ends up here, but i do think we will cone back and try again
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Durant doesn't even like being in Curry's shadow. Never mind Lebron. Leonard is probably going to want to do his own thing. The smart money is to go after a couple of all star players who are not franchise players in free agency. You might even be able to fit two in if they are smart with the money. Vucevic and Middleton, for example.
And id be fine with that if we get it in the end. But we cant simply say KD/Kawhi will/wont end up here or there yet. It is too early and most of the popular beliefs about superstars going somewhere around this time turn out wrong. The only thing that matters right now, KD is the only 38M max this summer, and thats exactly how much money we have to offer, which is why we cant exclude the possibility.
About him being in someones shadow, hes their 2 time FMVP, will be 3rd unless they decide to gift one to Curry finally. Hes their best player. Is he really in Currys shadow? I also think that someone with his mindset would go to a Lebron led team trying to become the best player there. But lets see, NY with another superstar seems like a strong possibility right now
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Middleton would be good for us because of his shooting... but only on a substantially less than max contract... Josh Hart just didn’t take that step forward this year. Our backcourt is really weak. Lonzo is about it and he needs a good partner back there.
Klay would be the dream, but I seriously can’t see that happening. Aside from him, I’d love to see us trade for Bradley Beal. His price is likely very steep now that he has looked so good with Wall out, but if you could get him for one of Kuzma/Ingram + Hart + draft picks that could be pretty interesting to look at. Would prefer this to sending everything for AD.
Vucevic on less than the max would be great too.
A starting 5 of Vucevic-Kuzma/Ingram-Lebron-Ball-Beal would be damn impressive.
Id trade for Beal but i think they will ask for yhe world. They didnt trade him when they were struggling and Wall went down, so they had a perfect excuse to go tanking. Now they moved one bad contract in otto porter and if Wall gets traded as well, they will have the chance to build around their 25 year old star. But if we can get him while keeping Lonzo and BI/Kuz, by all means, do it (our chances of doing so went down with Zubac gone imo). I just think all 3 will need to be sent
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