25 Feb 2019 07:26:41
lmk what your guy's thoughts are about this. just little something i put together. but anything can happen differently. lol

i believe the cap space for 2019 is 132m. Assuming we miss on durant and kawhi. klay says he wants to stay with gsw. jimmy has been lots of drama.
kyrie does not seem like he wants to be in celtics uniform anymore.
kemba walker needs to be in a winning team and hornets are not going to be there any time soon witht he people they got.

trade-
lonzo and ingram for beal.
FA sign-
kemba or kyrie for 4 yrs 139max 4 yrs 139 max.
resign javle for min.
now get role players to help our poor shooting/ defs.


pg- kemba/ kyrie 32m, isaac 1.4m
sg- beal 27m, hart 2m
sf- lebron 37,
pf- kuzma 1.9m,
cc- javale min 2.4m, wagner 2m

second option
FA sign-
demarcus cousins 4yrs 139 max
middelton 4yrs 72m (great shooter and defender)
plenty of cash left to sign role players.
have kuzma come off the bench and help score. lakers are not going to let ingram come off the bench.

pg- lonzo 8.7m, isaac 1.4m
sg- middelton 18m, hart 2m
sf- ingram 8m
pf- lebron 37m, kuzma 2m
cc- cousins 32m, wagner 2m.

1.) 25 Feb 2019
25 Feb 2019 20:53:08
The salary cap max is projected to be $109M. The Lakers would be at $65M payroll by the summer. So that leaves $44M. Idea 1 can work. Idea 2 can't. There isn't plenty of cash flow to sign players if you invest $50M in Cousins and Middleton with $44M in space, lol. By trading Ingram and Ball for Beal that will give extra money.

2.) 26 Feb 2019
26 Feb 2019 01:58:52
Tbh i think lakers are just way to impatient. Russell is avg 20 and 8.randle is avg 20 and 10. Thomas bryant is having a awsome season with wizards. We all knw why russell got traded. But if they were going to let randle walk then i don't understand why they wouldn't traded him for cousins a few years ago. They wouldn't package randle nance and first rounds for cousins. Also if they would had kept russell and randle then draft tatum instead of lonzo. we would ne nice right now. Just wouldn't have kuzma lol. I am a lonzo fan too but we need to be more patient. Ingram is starting to play a lot better this mid season. i would just keep our same players this year and hope to land 1 more superstar in free angency.

3.) 26 Feb 2019
26 Feb 2019 23:01:23
The Lakers were willing to trade Randle and Russell for Cousins. The Kings wanted Ingram instead of Russell. Which the Lakers weren't interested in doing. Vlade Divac the Kings GM admitted the Lakers offer was better than the Pelicans but too the Pelicans offer anyway. Lakers fans have to understand that small market teams are not the Lakers friends.

Right now they don't want to deal with the Lakers at all and give the Lakers a star player. Russell and Thomas are playing well due to minutes. They weren't getting the same minutes as a Laker. Nobody was offering anything at the deadline for Randle. Lakers were't going to give him a long term deal so it was best to let him walk especially when you have Lebron James on the team. He wouldn't get the same minutes as he is as a Pelican.

4.) 27 Feb 2019
26 Feb 2019 23:57:11
Russell is playing well due to yrs of development. I wouldn't say mins cause he played good mins in LA. But however russell did do some immature things ohh n the locker room to lead him to a trade. However my point us for the lakers to be patient and nkt try to trade our entire squad for anthony davis. c'mon he's a free agent the following year. u got to give lonzo a little time. Ingram is starting to blossom. Everybody already knows how special kuzma is. Yea i know we got lebron now. But don't forget this, lebron sign with the lakers knwing this was the young squad he had to be patient with.

5.) 27 Feb 2019
27 Feb 2019 17:16:10
I do agree with the impatience. Making quick fixes is why Magic Johnson was hired. When hired he had a 2 year deadline. This summer will be key. I just think Magic needs to take it down a little and start looking at the future rather than what happens now. Cause the Lakers aren't winning no championship the way the team is now. Hopefully Kuzma and Ingram turn into allstars. I don't see Lonzo Ball as an allstar player but a role player especially when he doesn't have to shoot the ball with Lebron James on the team.