2019 Off-Season Questions

[Ugly0598]

The timing of the rumors about Draymond Green signing with Klutch Sports is a bad sign. He is not the former Warrior I'm wishing for the Lakers to sign instead of Klay or Durant.

Maybe a core of Ball - Ingram - Leonard - James - Green in 2020 with Kuzma as the 6th man???

[Ballerhogger]

1. Fire Luke Walton
2. Go after Klay Thompson , Kawhi
3. Try trade for AD
4. Trade Ball
5. Hire shooting coach
6. Look at Nikola vuveic from the magic

Big check list

[BB_Fan]

The timing of the rumors about Draymond Green signing with Klutch Sports is a bad sign. He is not the former Warrior I'm wishing for the Lakers to sign instead of Klay or Durant.

Maybe a core of Ball - Ingram - Leonard - James - Green in 2020 with Kuzma as the 6th man???

Green is not a free agent so lakers will have to trade and lose kuzma/ball/Ingram. I think GSW will trade green if they sign KT to sign cousins if he plays well.

GSW will have big three - Curry, Klay and cousins.

[Danny Darko]

oh hell no to trading for Green unless it's like FRP and Hart.

[BB_Fan]

Will D Wade become the next lakers coach.

lAKERS will trade for CP3 and Carmelo will sign as free agent . LeBron will have his boat buddies.

[zimpy27]

The timing of the rumors about Draymond Green signing with Klutch Sports is a bad sign. He is not the former Warrior I'm wishing for the Lakers to sign instead of Klay or Durant.

Maybe a core of Ball - Ingram - Leonard - James - Green in 2020 with Kuzma as the 6th man???

That would be decent but Ball, Hart, Wagner, FRP would be needed to match a Green trade.

Could run out Ingram, Bullock?, Leonard, James, Green with Kuzma as a 6th man.

That's a scary defensive team tbh.

[Ball so hard]

1. Who are your free agents and what percentage would you put on them re-signing? 50% chance we keep the following: McGee and Rondo. We should let the rest walk.

2. What are your team needs and the overall short term goals of the team? Better coaching staff

3. Is there any reason your coach may not be in place next year? Hasn't accomplished anything in 3 years. What's even worse, all of our former players have arguably become better players elsewhere.

4. Who are you willing to trade? Everyone

[Ugly0598]

The timing of the rumors about Draymond Green signing with Klutch Sports is a bad sign. He is not the former Warrior I'm wishing for the Lakers to sign instead of Klay or Durant.

Maybe a core of Ball - Ingram - Leonard - James - Green in 2020 with Kuzma as the 6th man???

Green is not a free agent so lakers will have to trade and lose kuzma/ball/Ingram. I think GSW will trade green if they sign KT to sign cousins if he plays well.

GSW will have big three - Curry, Klay and cousins.

He will be a free agent and able to sign with the Lakers in LeBron's 3rd year of his deal.

[Kilroy]

oh hell no to trading for Green unless it's like FRP and Hart.

I'm just at hell no to Green period. He's a product of his team. He'll never live up to the contract he's likely to get on the open market and whoever gets him will regret it.

[PrinceH]

Y'all should trade LeBron, see what ya can get for him, move him on, could get DeMar (A LA native) and pieces, another big FA may be more willing to come with James gone also

[NYG]

What is the Lakers plan if the elite traded players (AD, Beal, etc.) and free agents end up elsewhere? Just keep building around the young guys?

[Slava]

Y'all should trade LeBron, see what ya can get for him, move him on, could get DeMar (A LA native) and pieces, another big FA may be more willing to come with James gone also

I'd rather sign Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg before Demar DeTrashcan.

[Landsberger]

Will D Wade become the next lakers coach.

lAKERS will trade for CP3 and Carmelo will sign as free agent . LeBron will have his boat buddies.

[Penberthy]

Ball (28) Rondo (20) Bonga
Kawhi (32) Hart (16)
Kuzma (16) Ingram (32)
Lebron (32) Kuzma (16)
McGee/Tyson (24) Wagner (24)

[NBAWestFan]

How about trade Lebron James to Pnoenix for their pick 1st round pick and Booker and fillers to make it work.

Sign Leonard

Lonzo, Rondo,
Booker, Sign BI at a reasonable rate.
Draft Hachi, Kuzma
Kawahi,
Sign A big. 2020 get AD

[AdonisDeMarion]

Ball/JOSEPH OR BEVERLEY /Bonga
GREEN OR REDICK OR ROSS/Ingram/Hart/
James/ARIZA OR BOGDANOVIC
Kuzma/RANDLE OR MIROTIC
COUSINS OR vUCEVIC/McGee/DEDMON OR NOEL/Wangner




free agents

Patrick Beverley
Cory Joseph

Terrence Ross
Jeremy Lamb
Danny Green
JJ Redick

Bojan Bogdanovic
Jimmy Butler
Trevor Ariza

Julius Randle
Nikola Mirotic


Brook Lopez
Nikola Vucevic
DeMarcus Cousins
Dewayne Dedmon
Nerlens Noel

[BBBKobe]

This off-season will shape the future of the franchise for the next decade or so. Let's review some of the reasons why.

1) Address the coaching situation

Luke Walton has potential, he's young, he's a champion, he's a former Laker, and he's learned from HOF coaches at every level. The problem is, the coaches will always be the first to blamed. We all know Luke is Mitch's hire and Magic would like to bring in his own guy. However, does anyone exactly have confidence in Magic's ability to land a valuable coach? I don't know, (personally no). My guess, Mark Jackson will be our future head coach which is not ideal. There is a reason he hasn't been hired again in the league. However, a coaching change at least the assistant level will be addressed first.

2)Roster Construction

This roster failed. We can put blame on injury which is fine to an extent, but this roster wasn't built to win a championship in the first place. There are zero shooters on this team and the team has too many personalities. How Luke kept the locker room at ease is beyond me, he should get an extension for that deed alone. Sadly, i'm afraid Magic will use the excuse of injuries and he'll keep the same roster construction of next year.

3)Free Agents

If we don't sign another superstar, what do we do with our current cap space and future cap space? That may be the second biggest question of the off-season. No one is rumored to be interested in coming here and who is to blame them for that exactly. Will we risk trading all our assets (kids) for a rental of AD or another superstar? Of course, there is the route of signing second tier free agents. But at what point do we risky our future cap flexibility by signing Kemba to a max tier contract? Those are things we need to avoid. We don't need four year deals or even three years deals going to non A list players. That could get us in trouble this season.

4) Front Office

Magic has stated multiple times he will step down if he can't bring in a second superstar this summer. We can only pray he'll hold his word and won't qualify a Kemba or Nikola signing as "superstars". Our front office is one of the weakest in the league due to their inexperience. Hiring a former agent as a GM has worked in the past, but it appears Rob's relationships with other GM's and agents is sour.


5) Brandon Ingram Extension

Brandon is due for a rookie extension this fall. I don't expect the Lakers to do anything this year as we try to maintain flexibility towards the future. His game continues to grow as he gains more and more experience in the league.