OT - Watching the neighbors

[Roscoe Sheed]

What a great day to watch the fLakers go down one game to three.

I does help counteract some of the pain of yesterday's loss

[KL2]

I wish I could enjoy them losing. Especially after how cocky there were with the Luka trade.

Maybe if our guys take care of business then maybe.

[MartinToVaught]

I wish I could enjoy them losing. Especially after how cocky there were with the Luka trade.

Maybe if our guys take care of business then maybe.

This, but also the Wolves feel like a team that's very capable of blowing a 3-1 lead anyway. I don't really trust a team that's heavily reliant on Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert to get it done in the playoffs.

[clipperlover]

One thing to note, we have won as many games this series in Denver as the Lakers did in total in their last 2 playoffs vs Denver (1-8, 0 in Denver).

[Roscoe Sheed]

I wish I could enjoy them losing. Especially after how cocky there were with the Luka trade.

Maybe if our guys take care of business then maybe.

This, but also the Wolves feel like a team that's very capable of blowing a 3-1 lead anyway. I don't really trust a team that's heavily reliant on Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert to get it done in the playoffs.

true, but they do have some clutch guys in Ant Man and Reed. DDV also isn't afraid of the moment.

[esqtvd]

Watching Fat Luka ["The Future"] take a dump was quite enjoyable. Especially a 4-1 smackdown. It's just a shame Nico didn't get more for him and really cripple the Lakers for some time to come.

And after the way he backstabbed Doc, I'm not much of a JJ Redick fan either. It was nice to see him getting a taste of his own second-guessing medicine about playing his starting 5 for the entire second half of Game 4, then embarrassing himself by walking out of the press conference when quizzed about it. Doc often got defensive, but never crossed that line.

What goes around comes around pal. [The irony is, I thought JJ did a hell of a job guiding that shaky roster to 50 wins and the 3rd seed. He's a good coach.]

[madmaxmedia]

I think the Luka trade was an absolute win for the Lakers, and sets the direction of their franchise for the next few years. That being said...

I think Luka's prime is going to be significantly shorter than most high level stars. Not because of conditioning and fitness (though maximizing those will help), but because the number of long seasons he's already played at his age of 26. His mileage matches that of a typical 29-30 year old player, and he looks even older the way he shuffles around on the court.

Still a win for the Lakers, but it does reduce the effective age difference of Luka and AD IMO (of course, AD has his own physical issues as a player.)

[esqtvd]

I think the Luka trade was an absolute win for the Lakers, and sets the direction of their franchise for the next few years. That being said...

I think Luka's prime is going to be significantly shorter than most high level stars. Not because of conditioning and fitness (though maximizing those will help), but because the number of long seasons he's already played at his age of 26. His mileage matches that of a typical 29-30 year old player, and he looks even older the way he shuffles around on the court.

Still a win for the Lakers, but it does reduce the effective age difference of Luka and AD IMO (of course, AD has his own physical issues as a player.)

They decided they did not want to look at another [guaranteed] 4-5 years of Fat Luka at $50 million a year.

Interesting.

[esqtvd]

SHOCKER. But they can't keep up financially and the kids all hate each other. I suppose Jeanie got outvoted. Jeanie Buss will retain her role as the team's governor after the sale, according to the report.


Los Angeles Lakers sale: Buss family selling majority stake to Dodgers owner Mark Walter, per report
The Buss family has owned the Lakers since 1979

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/los-angeles-lakers-sale-buss-family-selling-majority-stake-to-dodgers-owner-mark-walter-per-report/

[Roscoe Sheed]

SHOCKER. But they can't keep up financially and the kids all hate each other. I suppose Jeanie got outvoted. Jeanie Buss will retain her role as the team's governor after the sale, according to the report.


Los Angeles Lakers sale: Buss family selling majority stake to Dodgers owner Mark Walter, per report
The Buss family has owned the Lakers since 1979

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/los-angeles-lakers-sale-buss-family-selling-majority-stake-to-dodgers-owner-mark-walter-per-report/

that's surprising. that will just push the 2 fan bases even closer together unfortunately

[MartinToVaught]

Reports are that the sale price was $10 billion! It was considered a huge overpay when Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion. With the prices teams are going for these days, $2 billion is looking like an insane bargain - it's still "only" $2.7 billion in 2025 dollars.

I'm surprised Walter agreed to let Jeanie stay on as the public-facing "owner" figure. If I was paying $10 billion for a team, I'd at least want to put my own personal stamp on it.

[Clemenza]

Reports are that the sale price was $10 billion! It was considered a huge overpay when Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion. With the prices teams are going for these days, $2 billion is looking like an insane bargain - it's still "only" $2.7 billion in 2025 dollars.

I'm surprised Walter agreed to let Jeanie stay on as the public-facing "owner" figure. If I was paying $10 billion for a team, I'd at least want to put my own personal stamp on it.

That's short term to help the new ownership during the transfer-turnover. Or its a Mark Cuban situation where he's still at games but has no say so in team affairs or power whatsoever.

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[Captain Ballmer]

I don't know anything about Dodgers. So how this new owner run that team? Lakers gonna be pro now?

[KL2]

5’11 PG and a 6’3 PF. You really can’t make it up anymore.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/LAClippers/comments/1ldwjt2/sukan_rtm_63_malaysian_sfpf_chun_hong_ting_is/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_title&embed_host_url=https://hoopshype.com/rumors/

There’s a video in the link.

6'3" Malaysian SF/PF Chun Hong Ting is here at the Intuit Dome practice facility chatting with the Clippers staff after completing his 2nd individual workout session with them. Ty Lue and Clippers top brass such as Lawrence Frank/GM Trent Redden/Senior VP Mark Hughes were also there.

[MartinToVaught]

I don't know anything about Dodgers. So how this new owner run that team? Lakers gonna be pro now?

They still won't be able to spend unlimited amounts of money on the roster like the Dodgers do because of the salary cap/aprons, but they can afford to expand and hire better people for their front office now. And the next time a Hurley-tier coaching candidate emerges and they have an opening, they won't cheap out like they did with Hurley. So unless Walter turns out to be a complete buffoon when it comes to basketball, they'll be yet another team leaving us behind in the dust in terms of front office personnel and coaching.

[MartinToVaught]

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While I agree that the Luka trade was totally corrupt and orchestrated from the top down, this particular theory doesn't add up since the NBA's franchise values were already rising exponentially without it. Again, the $2 billion Ballmer paid for the Clippers went from an eye-popping number in 2014 to a bargain in 2025. In the years leading up to the Luka trade, we had already seen teams in smaller markets like the Suns, Mavericks and Hornets sell for prices in the $3-4 billion range. The Celtics just sold for $6.1 billion a few months ago, and while the deal closed after the Luka trade, it had been in the works since last July. Before the Lakers' sale, they had already blown past the NFL and MLB's highest sale prices. They didn't need to rig a trade to make this happen since it was already happening.