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PG: Russell
SG: Dipo
SF: Ingram
PF: Sabonis
C: Adams

Great young team, with an almost guaranteed lottery pick for next season, which is considered an excellent draft. What say you?

No.

Westbrook would walk after playing with Deng and Mozgov for a year.

Lakers can just sign Westbrook outright next summer and keep Russell and Ingram.

DaddyCool19 wrote:Westbrook would walk after playing with Deng and Mozgov for a year.

He's from LA. He's gonna play on a lottery team in OKC or his hometown, but he has a good shot of getting the 8th seed with the lakers and they have a ton of room for next season.

spearsy23 wrote:No.

care o elaborate? That team that I proposed has a lot of great young talent and a great lottery pick for next season.

Masterfully wrote:Lakers can just sign Westbrook outright next summer and keep Russell and Ingram.

Easier said than done. I thought LA was suppose to sign KD.

Masterfully wrote:Lakers can just sign Westbrook outright next summer and keep Russell and Ingram.

Sure, but the Thunders phones are rining off the hook for WB as we speak, if the lakers want in on the hometwon superstar, they move now, not run the risk of him being traded to another team that can lock him up long term.

pantalones wrote:

spearsy23 wrote:No.

care o elaborate? That team that I proposed has a lot of great young talent and a great lottery pick for next season.

You want me to elaborate? Westbrook is **** Kobe, he's our guy and **** you for trying to poach him when we just lost Durant.

You might try reposting this in a week.

spearsy23 wrote:

pantalones wrote:

spearsy23 wrote:No.

care o elaborate? That team that I proposed has a lot of great young talent and a great lottery pick for next season.

You want me to elaborate? Westbrook is **** Kobe, he's our guy [b]and **** you for trying to poach him when we just lost Durant[/b].

I hate the Lakers with a passion. But DeAngelo Russell and Brandon Ingram is a great haul for him.

I'd settle for D'Angelo and Ingram for Russ. It'll take a few future 1st round picks to lock it up. D'Angelo has a good shot to be as good as Russ on offense. He's just as good at attacking and finishing at the rim, he should become an equal passer and he is a better shooter. His defense might never be as good, but he should be solid. Ingram gives them a potential prolific scoring wing. OKC would have a lottery pick next year, maybe they'd get lucky and it'd be top 3, but they'd have the money for a max player next off-season with Adams and Oladipo there they might be able to land Blake Griffin or Millsap. A lineup of D'Angelo, Oladipo, Ingram, Griffin and Adams would be very good.

I'd rather send him to Boston for Isaiah Thomas, who could be flipped again, Crowder, Jaylen Brown and big collection of picks including Brooklyn's firsts in 2017 and 2018 and a pair of 1st rounders in 2019 from two of Memphis, LAC and Boston.

Minny is another decent option if they would part with Rubio, Dunn and LaVine. Send Rubio off for more picks or young players.

I'm sure Presti knows of Westbrook's intentions.
And frankly best move for either side might be to look for a trade.
If Russ wants to go to Boston, that is the best situation for both.
If he wants to go to Lakers, they might be pressured to send value cause they'd be afraid he'll go to some other team and like it there. Or they could play the waiting game. Melo/Nuggets/Knicks did and you know how that turned out.

Laker fan in peace... I am real sorry about KD... I thought he was a one team player (9 years)... I am sure you guys will be fine... Enjoy July 4th...

Everything depends on Russ. If he wants to be main hero of NBA, he will stay and franchise will try to move on from this situation.
If he doesn't see his future in OKC, trade with Boston would probably be the best option.

No chance on trading Russ. Donovan already said he wouldn't trade Russ for anyone in the league. It's just not happening. In Russ we trust.

OKC.

He's not getting dealt.

bondom34 wrote:OKC.

He's not getting dealt.

I wouldn't be 100% on that. If he wants to stay and have the team built around him, they'll keep him for sure. If he wants to leave in FA Presti will dump him like a hot potato.

dbrandon wrote:

bondom34 wrote:OKC.

He's not getting dealt.

I wouldn't be 100% on that. If he wants to stay and have the team built around him, they'll keep him for sure. If he wants to leave in FA Presti will dump him like a hot potato.

Agree, but my heart still wants him to stay.

My heart wants him to stay, but my mind says trade him for a king's ransom and rebuild.