Came off the buss with billions, now we back in the building: Your GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers 2025 offseason Thread

[Redguard]

Yeah send his ass out. fukking hoe.

Beal for LeBron

 

[Deafheaven]

Far be it from me to pocket watch BUT...Bron can't have it both ways. You want your 50 million...fine...but you ain't getting another star to play with AND depth. Not in today's NBA.

What's crazy, in a hypothetical scenario, if Billionaire Bron took the veterans' minimum his entire time with the Lakers, he'd probably have 6 rings.

GOATs like Brady took a paycut for the sake of winning. Jordan, who Reinsdorf admittedly would have renegotiated his contract (before the 2nd threepeat), never bytched about not being in the top 20 highest paid players in 13 out of his 15 seasons.

Can't put this all on Pelinka...no GM...no matter how skilled can pull off miracle moves with no money.

And for those saying "take the money" I feel you but if you forego the money, gamble on yourself, and win....you stand to make even more money on the back end.

It's like a hollywood star who doesn't take a lot of money up front in exchange for points, in hopes that the movie is a hit and they can make money off the residuals.

Man be real. No matter how much money you got no one is working for a 45 million dollar discount

 

[threattonature]

Austin Reeves may have to go in order to improve this roster

Funny I literally just texted the same thing to a friend a few minutes ago. I like Austin as a player but Luka is obviously the centerpiece going forward. Playing him and Reeves together is going to make it hard for the Lakers to win having two defensive liabilities in the starting lineup. Trade him now while his value is probably at the highest it'll be.

 

[threattonature]

Far be it from me to pocket watch BUT...Bron can't have it both ways. You want your 50 million...fine...but you ain't getting another star to play with AND depth. Not in today's NBA.

What's crazy, in a hypothetical scenario, if Billionaire Bron took the veterans' minimum his entire time with the Lakers, he'd probably have 6 rings.

GOATs like Brady took a paycut for the sake of winning. Jordan, who Reinsdorf admittedly would have renegotiated his contract (before the 2nd threepeat), never bytched about not being in the top 20 highest paid players in 13 out of his 15 seasons.

Can't put this all on Pelinka...no GM...no matter how skilled can pull off miracle moves with no money.

And for those saying "take the money" I feel you but if you forego the money, gamble on yourself, and win....you stand to make even more money on the back end.

It's like a hollywood star who doesn't take a lot of money up front in exchange for points, in hopes that the movie is a hit and they can make money off the residuals.

As a Laker fan yes that would be amazing. But Lebron is old with one foot out the door. As well as one of the most famous people on the planet. In no world would he make that money back on the backend by taking a huge paycut. His stardom can't get any bigger.

 

[Elim Garak]

Austin Reeves may have to go in order to improve this roster

I said they needed to move him in the off-season months ago and someone on here was acting like I was crazy.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Cap on both counts
but what a graceful winner Ant is

No Cap…. Ant the Goat now…..

He beat Bron, already said he’d wash MJ and is better…. And he don’t acknowledge other guys.

Ant so great niccas TERRIFIED to hate on him and give him any energy, he ain’t nothing to play with

Best SG ever

Then MJ, AI, Tmac Harden

 

[HoldThisL]

Westbrook trade really was the downfall of the Lakers, crazy how much the roster has changed since then.

Having a whole new roster mostly every year since then is not healthy.

 

[Falcozer]

Darvin Ham would've been called an Al-Qaeda terrorist for showing the same level of stubbornness, arrogance and low IQ as JJ Riley during this series .

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Funny I literally just texted the same thing to a friend a few minutes ago. I like Austin as a player but Luka is obviously the centerpiece going forward. Playing him and Reeves together is going to make it hard for the Lakers to win having two defensive liabilities in the starting lineup. Trade him now while his value is probably at the highest it'll be.

Exactly

I said they needed to move him in the off-season months ago and someone on here was acting like I was crazy.

Last offseason was different that was before they got Luka.

You can't have two guys in the starting lineup on the perimeter that can't defend

One a them has to go

 

[Elim Garak]

Last offseason was different that was before they got Luka.

You can't have two guys in the starting lineup on the perimeter that can't defend

One a them has to go

I'm not talking about last off-season.

They should move him this summer, but the Lakers know nothing about trading a player when they are most valuable.

 

[jaydawg08]

Far be it from me to pocket watch BUT...Bron can't have it both ways. You want your 50 million...fine...but you ain't getting another star to play with AND depth. Not in today's NBA.

What's crazy, in a hypothetical scenario, if Billionaire Bron took the veterans' minimum his entire time with the Lakers, he'd probably have 6 rings.

GOATs like Brady took a paycut for the sake of winning. Jordan, who Reinsdorf admittedly would have renegotiated his contract (before the 2nd threepeat), never bytched about not being in the top 20 highest paid players in 13 out of his 15 seasons.

Can't put this all on Pelinka...no GM...no matter how skilled can pull off miracle moves with no money.

And for those saying "take the money" I feel you but if you forego the money, gamble on yourself, and win....you stand to make even more money on the back end.

It's like a hollywood star who doesn't take a lot of money up front in exchange for points, in hopes that the movie is a hit and they can make money off the residuals.

Why are we forgetting that Lebron literally offered to a take a massive paycut last year?

Hes literally already offered to do that, but Pelinka signed nobody with the $$ Bron was offering

He signed a 2 year deal with the last being a player option so the Lakers can take another swing at FA and they can get someone with the discounted $$

But Pelinka has to actually sign some people

 

[cyndaquil]

If Lebron opted out and signed with the Cavs on the veterans minimum how much hate would he get?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I'm not talking about last off-season.

Ok my fault

 

[Falcozer]

JJ: "Maybe if i put Maxi Kleber with Gabe Vincent out there Rudy Gobert will have a hard time getting rebounds in the paint and score , shyt if it doesn't work i might play the starters a whole half again "

Results: Loss 4-1 at home in the first round as a 3rd seed (first time in Lakers history)


Darvin Ham: "Go hard on them dudes. Everybody play the right way. Salute "

Results: Western Conference Finals


It's levels to coaching

 

[VegetasHairline]

Westbrook trade really was the downfall of the Lakers, crazy how much the roster has changed since then.

Having a whole new roster mostly every year since then is not healthy.