One player has turned a franchise around before but it's rare as hell. We're talking O'Neal/Robinson levels of rarity.No one player, especially at 19 or 20, is gonna single-handedly turn around a shytty org. shytty orgs tend to get the best prospects. I am just glad guys arethat one way loyalty shyt. Nothing is gonna change until a) they change the draft b) fans start holding these orgs accountable rather than the players all the time.
Think about it, teams will suck for years, bring in a highly touted teenager, continue to do sucky shyt around said player, and then the player takes all the shyt for not elevating the level of play of the shyt around him while the FO makes money hand over fist off of his star power and he is "soft" or "beta" when he leaves
They would be sucking like this with a higher payroll and no reason for any optimism going forward or anything to build around. They'd basically be the 2010-14 Cavaliers minus winning the lottery 4 years in a row. There's no bad karma causing this. The hornets front office is ass cheeks. If anything, stern and silver should have chosen to step in more often because that actually worked out well for them and they've made no other good choices really.So basically in this scenario they suck, EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO NOW... but without the negative karmic energy of the biggest screw job in NBA history hanging around their necks
Sounds like the better option to me... so sad the league put that evil on them... I'll enjoy them sucking for the reminder of AD's contract, would be awesome if he left in FA to join Russell and Ingram to lead the lakers to another title run in 2021
So basically in this scenario they suck, EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO NOW... but without the negative karmic energy of the biggest screw job in NBA history hanging around their necks
Sounds like the better option to me... so sad the league put that evil on them... I'll enjoy them sucking for the reminder of AD's contract, would be awesome if he left in FA to join Russell and Ingram to lead the lakers to another title run in 2021
If that was really at play the Lakers (among other successful squads) wouldn't have a lot of their success.
The lakers would have had no pau and no Odom while banking on Andrew Bynum and his knees to hold up. A year after the trade his knees crumbled from the strain of going bowling. That's not even mentioning the fact that knowing how much of a dikk CP3 is and how much of a prick Kobe is, those two would've thrown hands before long over who controls the offense. Kobe and alpha dog personalities never mixed.
Getting cp3s prime with room for another max free agent and saving the lakers from Steve Nash and likely keeping Kobe from a career ending the injury would've allowed them to rebuild on the fly and extend the title window... championships weren't guaranteed, cause they never are...but get the entire full fukk outta here with even pretending to suggest basketball reasons was anything but a disastrous screw job towards the lakers that set the franchise backs years
Pretend that it worked out for the pelicans all you want, but what u said is a bridge too far and damn near neg worthy
Getting cp3s prime with room for another max free agent and saving the lakers from Steve Nash and likely keeping Kobe from a career ending the injury would've allowed them to rebuild on the fly and extend the title window... championships weren't guaranteed, cause they never are...but get the entire full fukk outta here with even pretending to suggest basketball reasons was anything but a disastrous screw job towards the lakers that set the franchise backs years
Pretend that it worked out for the pelicans all you want, but what u said is a bridge too far and damn near neg worthy
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SmhFor starters, an owner not bending over and actually putting their squads well being over adding to Laker lore =/= a screw job. The entitlement
The rest of the stuff you said would make perfect sense if there wasn't...you know...actual evidence to the contrary. It's hilarious how people act like it's still 2011, like we haven't seen stuff play out since then. Kobe and Dwight just barely got the Lakers in the playoffs...you telling me CP3 (affectionately known as CP0 for his inability to get to the WCF with multiple max players around him) was the difference between that and a Finals run? Dwight still leaves because he most certainly doesn't get along with Kobe and CP3. That leaves a team with no cap room the first year and then a damn near $50 mil backcourt (one guy in year 19, the other 6'0) on the pre-explosion cap. So then after Kobe retires you got a 31 year old CP3 with one year left on his deal and all that cap room for who last summer? Bron ain't leaving a champion even for his man. KD ain't passing on Steph and co. for Chris. Maybe you get Derozan but then again even with Chris are the Lakers a better bet than his current squad? Not seeing how this window is extended or where this on the fly rebuild is coming in at. You telling me that CP3 on the wrong side of 30 at 6'0 with no guarantee that he stays himself and a bunch of ??? around him > a bunch of young talent and flexibility? That's like saying the Hornets at the time of the trade were better off than the Lakers now.
The NBA has always been star driven since George MikanBut that's the logic of these teams. Every draft they think they're going to get the next Lebron. Those players only come around once in a generation.
Most franchises don't even have an identity. It's too star driven. Players now a days don't care as much because they're paid so well.
Take the Thunder for example. Why would a player like Kanter call out Westbrook for taking too many shots when he's making over 17 million this season
Oladipo is making 6 million
Winning use to equate to getting paid more bread but now you don't even have to win or be that great to
