Laker Fans: Win, or Draft? That is the question

[BJGOAT3]

Preserve the winning culture as much as you can, and you will strike with some free agents eventually. I for one supported getting players like Ariza this year in order to have solid team that a big man FA would be more comfortable to sign with, or use the Houston pick and expirings to net a good big man from a team that is breaking down. Asset collection is helpful but Lakers should have thought that in the first place and not dealt so many picks to Suns. Possibility of keeping the pick shouldn't be a justification for tanking.

Bucks and 76ers are locks to be worst than Lakers this year. Jazz and Orlando are very likely to be worse as well. This means with a single team jumping Lakers could be losing their pick and their strong reputation of having a winning culture that can lure FA's at some point.

[laduane1]

This all started with stern void the chris paul trade than lakers having to over pay for nash.

[spaceballer]

Think about this statement... We have 1 player in the top 100 in the league... There are only 435 players in NBA rosters & we have only 1 player in the top 100... There are 30 teams...

Technically, the Lakers have TWO players in the top 100, if you're going by the new ESPN rankings. They had Kobe at 40 and Lin who squeaked in at 100.

[Doormatt]

Preserve the winning culture as much as you can, and you will strike with some free agents eventually. I for one supported getting players like Ariza this year in order to have solid team that a big man FA would be more comfortable to sign with, or use the Houston pick and expirings to net a good big man from a team that is breaking down. Asset collection is helpful but Lakers should have thought that in the first place and not dealt so many picks to Suns. Possibility of keeping the pick shouldn't be a justification for tanking.

Bucks and 76ers are locks to be worst than Lakers this year. Jazz and Orlando are very likely to be worse as well. This means with a single team jumping Lakers could be losing their pick and their strong reputation of having a winning culture that can lure FA's at some point.

The Jazz are easily better than us, how could you come to the conclusion that they could be worse than us? The only team I would say that is clearly less talented is Philly, so I think we should be pretty fine in keeping our pick this year, assuming none of the other bottom dwellers suffer injuries to their "key players"

And since when has being mediocre ever attracted free agents? The only thing that attracts stars is other stars, that's it. Trevor Ariza isn't preserving a winning culture or attracting anyone lol. He's literally just a 3 and D role player, a good one at that.