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Kblo247! Star Player

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Runway8 wrote: | Man, I've been crapping on Rob and Jeanie for a few years now. The fact that she simply hired him because of his relationship with Kobe. Had no clue that that relationship had appendages in the NBA like Nico. LOL! And that it would lead to Luka. All is forgiven... just don't do another Zubac for Muscala. |
Kobe literally said “No one knows the business of basketball better than Rob Pelinka”
That’s his endorsement of him. The fact Pelinka got AD for a lesser package than Magic offered, as Magic offered both Kuzma and Zubac with the other 3 in the deal. He won a title with AD, went to another conference finals with AD, and then won an in season tournament with AD. He traded for Russ even when he didn’t want to because his stars wanted it and then he got out of it. Now he has turned AD into 25 year old Luka who has some of the best averages ever in the postseason and has took a team to an nba finals already. He did all while milking Bron, having Bron break records and make them money, and even signing Brons son which was a business move that translates into a 8M dollar deal making them 50M that same summer.
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DLaker Star Player


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He was just getting roasted 2 weeks ago for cutting Quincy and questioning why keep 3 bigs but not knowing that he knew we could lose AD and might need those bigs in the future. Quincy or Luka lmao. LBJ must also know, I believe he mentioned the team will be different by Feb. Hope this fan know think he knows what he is doing just very calculating and learned from previous mistakes.
Last 3 trades seems to be great. Getting Dlo, Vando and Beasley for what the league say Westbrook can’t get us anything back. Rui trade was good. Dlo for DFS is good. AD for Luka is 😳. As far as Team construction, my hope is he learn from past mistake. Getting DFS is a great start. |
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tox Franchise Player

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DLaker wrote: | He was just getting roasted 2 weeks ago for cutting Quincy and questioning why keep 3 bigs but not knowing that he knew we could lose AD and might need those bigs in the future. Quincy or Luka lmao. LBJ must also know, I believe he mentioned the team will be different by Feb. Hope this fan know think he knows what he is doing just very calculating and learned from previous mistakes.
Last 3 trades seems to be great. Getting Dlo, Vando and Beasley for what the league say Westbrook can’t get us anything back. Rui trade was good. Dlo for DFS is good. AD for Luka is 😳. As far as Team construction, my hope is he learn from past mistake. Getting DFS is a great start. |
I'm optimistic that Rob has learned from his main mistake which was giving away assets (FRPs, guys like KCP/Caruso) like candy from '20-'22 roughly. He was super stingy with sending out FRPs and it looks like that was the right move. |
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Hanging from Rafters Star Player

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Runway8 wrote: | Man, I've been crapping on Rob and Jeanie for a few years now. The fact that she simply hired him because of his relationship with Kobe. Had no clue that that relationship had appendages in the NBA like Nico. LOL! And that it would lead to Luka. All is forgiven... just don't do another Zubac for Muscala. |
For the Laker franchise, the goal is to compete for a ship. Getting Luka means great potential possibly for that but it means nothing if the same ineptitude continues. More work has to be done.
Rob failed to get a legitimate Center to play with AD over several trading periods, let’s see if he can get Luka a Center…or build a legitimate ship roster…before he’s crowned for redemption. He can make good in the future and it’s possible to forgive, but it’s premature right now. If Rob positions the Lakers to compete for a ship over the next several years…longer and sooner than expected post LBJ…that will make up for wasting 3 seasons of not competing when he should have, and that wasted 3 seasons can never be got back, and that’s not even counting this one. _________________ When it’s a reasonable possibility, I expect the Lakers to go after a ship like it can’t be denied. I haven’t seen a respectable effort by the Front Office for the last two off seasons nor the last trade deadline. What is going on? |
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LakersARETheGOAT Star Player


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Pelinka is a snake. Will be glad when he’s gone. Idc if Luka fell into his lap. He wasted years of lebron and AD. |
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vasashi17+ Star Player


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This is what spooks me about this deal…
Quote: | The Lakers’ logic, according to league sources, was that parting with both of their first-rounders would be too perilous. Dončić’s contract can expire in 2026 when they couldn’t know his interest in re-signing. And they had no chance to find out before pulling off an exchange that shook the NBA. The Lakers could not talk to Dončić’s agent, Bill Duffy, about the trade because both sides, Dallas and Los Angeles, wanted to keep negotiations a secret. Mentioning the behind-the-scenes details to agents would put the information at risk of becoming public, which the Mavericks especially thought would be too flammable. If a trade didn’t materialize, then they believed the prospect of being left with a disgruntled franchise centerpiece could be disastrous. |
Rob you were an agent once, so why the F do you want to give Duffy a reason to make it difficult for us when it comes to retention of Luka as a pending free agent? In 6 months time, he’s extension eligible, but it would be vastly under market value, so I’m sure they bypass that option and opt out of that 2026/27 option to become an UFA next summer. Then we offer Luka a new deal. I wonder how Duffy will interacts with Rob at that point.
Quote: | Though Mavs general manager Nico Harrison seemed to indicate in a news conference Sunday that he spoke only to the Lakers about Dončić, Dallas called at least one other team to inquire about a deal that would flip Dončić for another star, league sources told The Athletic. But the Mavericks didn’t enter deep negotiations with anyone but the Lakers. – via New York Times
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Nico allegedly went to another team and their star, yet their GM never got past that first cup of coffee with Nico…why is that? Maybe it has something to do with understanding relationships.
Y’all remember Mintz? He got dude to shed Jules RFA status which enabled him to get away high & dry. Maybe Rob was trying to make good with Mintz hoping that he does us a solid when George’s deal in OKC is up…and what ended up happening? We got ghosted. These dudes don’t forget…
I’m sure both Duffy/Luka will remember all that secrecy done with Nico when the time comes and when it does come, our only advantage is 4.5m compared to the open market. It will most likely be a 3yr deal at most which takes Luka to the summer of ‘29 and being 35% max eligible where he recoups that supermax bag he lost. And over the course of that 3yr deal, our only advantage is offering Luka 8% annual increases compared to 5% by our competitors…yr1 is a wash, yr2 has us offering about 1.5m more than the market and yr3 gives us about 3m more to offer than our opps….~4.5m is the difference and most of that will go to the tax of living in sunny California.
Nico was desperate to offload Luka and Im just hoping Rob didn’t get suckered in & used. Is Luka damaged goods? And if not, does Duffy forgive and forget when it comes to contract time?
Quote: | Now that the trade is official, answers are emerging. Dončić is ecstatic about joining the Lakers, and all early signs point to a long-term future with the team, a league source said. – via New York Times
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Luka/Duffy are literally in the same situation AD/Rich were in way back in 2019. However, they got hindsight on how it all turned out. AD had 1 ask and it was repeatedly trivialized. The eScapegoat also floated the narrative that Klutch was trying to have their way with coaching and trades…and thru all that, just 1 Finals appearance and then ousted in secrecy. It’s gonna be interesting how Luka/Duffy move knowing all this. _________________ Not familiar with the salary cap/CBA rules & how it impacts our Lakers?
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drae Franchise Player

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vasashi17+ wrote: |
Nico allegedly went to another team and their star, yet their GM never got past that first cup of coffee with Nico…why is that? Maybe it has something to do with understanding relationships.
Y’all remember Mintz? He got dude to shed Jules RFA status which enabled him to get away high & dry. Maybe Rob was trying to make good with Mintz hoping that he does us a solid when George’s deal in OKC is up…and what ended up happening? We got ghosted. These dudes don’t forget…
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I've seen rumors they went to the Spurs and asked for Wemby, which is the one true untouchable player around the league. Which if true, none of this applies. |
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giordan0 Star Player


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Giannis next Rob. |
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slavavov Star Player

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Maybe the problem all along wasn't Pelinka. After all, he got AD in the first place for a fair price, then assembled a championship team around AD and LeBron knowing we needed multiple plus defenders and another legit ball-handler in Rondo.
Maybe the problem all along was LeBron/Klutch. As long as LeBron doesn't bail just because he isn't being catered to, maybe now we can see what Pelinka is truly capable of as the main decision-maker in the front office without having to placate LeBron/Klutch. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers |
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vasashi17+ Star Player


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@drae: I've seen rumors the Spurs went to the Kings and asked for Fox to pair Wemby with, which if true (and it was), none of what you said applies.
@slavov: Nah bro, dude is the pROBlem and he got the price for AD after Griff (aka the Klutch whisperer) took over the Pels operation, which was dealing in poor faith prior), after we fell into #4 overall pick, while the Pels fell into the Zion pick defying the odds, after AD Sr all but nuked AD’s value around the league by daring our main competitor in Boston to step down and not deal for his son, otherwise he would bounce once free agency begin). We traded for AD under the premise that we could close on Kawhi as well in free agency and Rob’s plan failed there as well. Hence our package for AD was not only draft pick heavy, but young player salary aggregate heavy and as a result we lost unnecessary assets in the AD purge. And with all those pick deferments, we also lost the ability to do follow up trades to supplement a Bron-AD pairing thanks to the Stepien rule.
In terms of the Russ trade, as we seen prior with our kawhiet free agency plan, the Lakers are in the business of adding star names to sell tickets. Due to our limited asset pool cause of Rob’s prior dealings, we could only target depreciated targets such as Russ and his supermax contract. But, hey at least Rob finally cane good in that 3 star alignment. He then supplemented that roster with vet min players instead of retaining assets to deal later, such as Schro, Caruso, Wes, etc. And when it didn’t work out, he went to what he knows best and eScapegoated Klutch for it.
And now here we are again with the splashy Luka trade, where once again Rob was targeted to fall into. You gotta wonder why? Maybe Nico saw him as an easy mark to make sure his bottom line was met. Either way, here’s to hoping Rob doesn’t waste the prime of a soon to be 26y/o Luka as he did with 26y/o AD.
Btw, hopefully the 9ers can bounce back next year. _________________ Not familiar with the salary cap/CBA rules & how it impacts our Lakers?
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Dr. Laker Franchise Player


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vasashi17+ wrote: | @drae: I've seen rumors the Spurs went to the Kings and asked for Fox to pair Wemby with, which if true (and it was), none of what you said applies.
@slavov: Nah bro, dude is the pROBlem and he got the price for AD after Griff (aka the Klutch whisperer) took over the Pels operation, which was dealing in poor faith prior), after we fell into #4 overall pick, while the Pels fell into the Zion pick defying the odds, after AD Sr all but nuked AD’s value around the league by daring our main competitor in Boston to step down and not deal for his son, otherwise he would bounce once free agency begin). We traded for AD under the premise that we could close on Kawhi as well in free agency and Rob’s plan failed there as well. Hence our package for AD was not only draft pick heavy, but young player salary aggregate heavy and as a result we lost unnecessary assets in the AD purge. And with all those pick deferments, we also lost the ability to do follow up trades to supplement a Bron-AD pairing thanks to the Stepien rule.
In terms of the Russ trade, as we seen prior with our kawhiet free agency plan, the Lakers are in the business of adding star names to sell tickets. Due to our limited asset pool cause of Rob’s prior dealings, we could only target depreciated targets such as Russ and his supermax contract. But, hey at least Rob finally cane good in that 3 star alignment. He then supplemented that roster with vet min players instead of retaining assets to deal later, such as Schro, Caruso, Wes, etc. And when it didn’t work out, he went to what he knows best and eScapegoated Klutch for it.
And now here we are again with the splashy Luka trade, where once again Rob was targeted to fall into. You gotta wonder why? Maybe Nico saw him as an easy mark to make sure his bottom line was met. Either way, here’s to hoping Rob doesn’t waste the prime of a soon to be 26y/o Luka as he did with 26y/o AD.
Btw, hopefully the 9ers can bounce back next year. |
I'll give you credit - you go full HAM on the Rob hate. You took a small break on Sunday, but I can see that you're gearing up to dump the whole diaper on him. At least wait until after the deadline, when he fails to trade for the reanimated corpse of Bill Russell or something, before you call for the tar and feathers. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns". |
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Give him his props, well done. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0 |
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vasashi17+ Star Player


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^Doc, let me cook! Haha
We’re all Laker fans here, so who doesn’t want to see our team succeed? If he was doing a solid job, where the results are indisputable, I’d give him his roses. But the reason I’ve been such a prick, is cause I’ve scrubbed our cap sheet for years now and can confidently say there were missed opportunities and repeatable offenses. Yet, the fan base has been mostly patient with dude targeting others instead with their ire.
Magic got tarred and feathered by a fanbase that he supplanted bannerS for. He earned that jersey in the rafters and that statue outside. He’s part of the main reason, this particular fan is a Lakers fan. So when it’s show time, I’m gunning for the alleged back-stabbed rather than the alleged “absentee execution”. After all, if Magic was never in the building, who is the one negotiating Deng’s 5yr dead cap hit, who’s the one negotiating the Zu trade, who’s the one not negotiating our FAs and letting them due the Caruso/Schro walks like Jules, BroLo & Bullock? It’s been our day1 GM all along! Seeing how the Dodgers been moving and now the Washington Commanders, I would have loved to see Magic hire his own people rather than being forced to have his back covered by Rob. Either way, Jeanie needs to do better & just get out the way once she hires truly cable and deserving individuals.
Klutch had 2 FO partnerships before coming into town. It led to 8 straight Finals appearances. You can’t win it ever year, but you sure can continuously compete for one during your win-dow and yet here in LA, there was an inconsistency with our Finals appearances. Maybe that had something to do with our day1 GM not allowing Klutch to move in the manner they did with their previous stops. And after all, if Klutch was really in charge, you’d think they wound have found AD a center years ago! We probably should have handed Klutch the keys and just say “f the picks/future” cause it sure didn’t seem to mess up the Heat when they got no cap space to their name, yet had enough assets to get Jimmy which allowed them to be one game 7 win away from getting to the Finals 3 years in a 4yr stretch post-Klutch. It sure didn’t nuke Cleveland’s future when they had enough assets to go get Spyda, Allen and that current league leading squad.
I just don’t want what’s best for our Lakers and imho, it ain’t him till he can prove otherwise. _________________ Not familiar with the salary cap/CBA rules & how it impacts our Lakers?
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nevitt_smrek wrote: | Give him his props, well done. |
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Dr. Laker Franchise Player


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vasashi17+ wrote: | ^Doc, let me cook! Haha
We’re all Laker fans here, so who doesn’t want to see our team succeed? If he was doing a solid job, where the results are indisputable, I’d give him his roses. But the reason I’ve been such a prick, is cause I’ve scrubbed our cap sheet for years now and can confidently say there were missed opportunities and repeatable offenses. Yet, the fan base has been mostly patient with dude targeting others instead with their ire.
Magic got tarred and feathered by a fanbase that he supplanted bannerS for. He earned that jersey in the rafters and that statue outside. He’s part of the main reason, this particular fan is a Lakers fan. So when it’s show time, I’m gunning for the alleged back-stabbed rather than the alleged “absentee execution”. After all, if Magic was never in the building, who is the one negotiating Deng’s 5yr dead cap hit, who’s the one negotiating the Zu trade, who’s the one not negotiating our FAs and letting them due the Caruso/Schro walks like Jules, BroLo & Bullock? It’s been our day1 GM all along! Seeing how the Dodgers been moving and now the Washington Commanders, I would have loved to see Magic hire his own people rather than being forced to have his back covered by Rob. Either way, Jeanie needs to do better & just get out the way once she hires truly cable and deserving individuals.
Klutch had 2 FO partnerships before coming into town. It led to 8 straight Finals appearances. You can’t win it ever year, but you sure can continuously compete for one during your win-dow and yet here in LA, there was an inconsistency with our Finals appearances. Maybe that had something to do with our day1 GM not allowing Klutch to move in the manner they did with their previous stops. And after all, if Klutch was really in charge, you’d think they wound have found AD a center years ago! We probably should have handed Klutch the keys and just say “f the picks/future” cause it sure didn’t seem to mess up the Heat when they got no cap space to their name, yet had enough assets to get Jimmy which allowed them to be one game 7 win away from getting to the Finals 3 years in a 4yr stretch post-Klutch. It sure didn’t nuke Cleveland’s future when they had enough assets to go get Spyda, Allen and that current league leading squad.
I just don’t want what’s best for our Lakers and imho, it ain’t him till he can prove otherwise. |
No GM is perfect, not even St. Jerry of West - and the Westbrook deal was an all-time bonehead move - but look at this:
- Traded a haul of guys to NOLA for AD - which led to a ring, then
- Traded AD and pieces for Luka MFing Doncic.
Whether it's a fumble by Nico or you think Rob should have saved a pick in the initial AD deal, you have to acknowledge that on his watch he took over a 37-45 team in mid-year and won a ring the following year, then 5 years later he brings in a top-2/top-3 player in the league. Since Rob took over from Magic:
- Ainge cannot say that
- Stevens cannot say that
- Morey cannot say that
- Presti cannot say that
- Booth cannot say that
- Riles cannot say that
- Morey cannot say that
- Myers cannot say that
Whether Rob is just the luckiest MF on Earth, or you think he took a big fortune and turned it into a small fortune through blown opportunity costs, the record shows that he did at least as much - if not more - than the "top" GMs in the league during his tenure. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns". |
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petergr Star Player

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Great trade by Pelinla...nice to see him move the first round picks only for true difference makers. |
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Dennis Smith Jr and Mo Bamba please.
2 year deals with 2nd year unguaranteed. _________________ "He's a Zen master, so he can speak to you, and he doesn't need a microphone; you can hear him in your head, 'Ron, don't shoot, don't shoot.' Whatever, pow, three. I love the Zen, though." |
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Where'd he get that jacket? Did he "trade" it off a 16 year old girl outside the facility? _________________ "I got Wheaties!" |
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Pidge wrote: | Where'd he get that jacket? Did he "trade" it off a 16 year old girl outside the facility? |
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nevitt_smrek wrote: | Give him his props, well done. |
Agreed. I can see why some are struggling with this however. They believe they're playing a zero sum game where if they insist that Rob is an idiot and he does anything that's decidedly unidiotic, it must mean that they themselves are the actual idiot. So instead of admitting to being wrong and giving credit they attempt to double down and desperately hope that Rob somehow fumbles a great opportunity and proves that he's an idiot and not them. Even reaching as far as trying to convince themselves that Rob is the sucker in this deal and Nico is the one who got over. Some folks just engage in psychological warfare against themselves. _________________ It was reminiscent of one of those Most Interesting Man in the World advertisements: "I don't always shoot 6-for-28 from the field, but when I do, I become the youngest player in league history to score 28,000 career points." |
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I appreciate Rob's work ethic but this gift fell into our laps. The Mavs were sick of some things about Doncic, and were afraid he'd get worse if he got that Max extension this summer.
This is a classic example of sometimes it's better to be lucky that good. |
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slavavov Star Player

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vasashi17+ wrote: | @slavov: Nah bro, dude is the pROBlem and he got the price for AD after Griff (aka the Klutch whisperer) took over the Pels operation, which was dealing in poor faith prior), after we fell into #4 overall pick, while the Pels fell into the Zion pick defying the odds, after AD Sr all but nuked AD’s value around the league by daring our main competitor in Boston to step down and not deal for his son, otherwise he would bounce once free agency begin). We traded for AD under the premise that we could close on Kawhi as well in free agency and Rob’s plan failed there as well. Hence our package for AD was not only draft pick heavy, but young player salary aggregate heavy and as a result we lost unnecessary assets in the AD purge. And with all those pick deferments, we also lost the ability to do follow up trades to supplement a Bron-AD pairing thanks to the Stepien rule.
In terms of the Russ trade, as we seen prior with our kawhiet free agency plan, the Lakers are in the business of adding star names to sell tickets. Due to our limited asset pool cause of Rob’s prior dealings, we could only target depreciated targets such as Russ and his supermax contract. But, hey at least Rob finally cane good in that 3 star alignment. He then supplemented that roster with vet min players instead of retaining assets to deal later, such as Schro, Caruso, Wes, etc. And when it didn’t work out, he went to what he knows best and eScapegoated Klutch for it.
And now here we are again with the splashy Luka trade, where once again Rob was targeted to fall into. You gotta wonder why? Maybe Nico saw him as an easy mark to make sure his bottom line was met. Either way, here’s to hoping Rob doesn’t waste the prime of a soon to be 26y/o Luka as he did with 26y/o AD.
Btw, hopefully the 9ers can bounce back next year. |
People said at the time of the AD trade in 2019 that we gave up too much. But in retrospect, the price was right. We gave up Lonzo Ball, who is still overhyped and cannot even stay healthy, a borderline star in Ingram and a nice role player in Josh Hart plus a few draft picks that have, at most, yielded decent role players. We got a championship right away out of the trade. What have the Pelicans done since that trade?
I think Pelinka has learned from the disaster that was the Russ trade. He has shown good trade discipline since. Remember when Klutch wanted him to trade Russ + two first-round picks for John Wall? That would've been even more disastrous than the initial Russ trade. He turned down Russ + two FRPs for Buddy Hield and Myles Turner, which would've left us with no true point guard and no wing defenders, which would've put too much stress on an aging LeBron.
Everyone said we would have to give up two FRPs along with Russ to get any value back. But Pelinka didn't, and he got DLO and Vando back.
The Russ trade IMO is a big reason why Pelinka hasn't been able to trade for a legit defensive center to allow AD to play some minutes at the 4.
Is Pelinka a great GM? No, but it's starting to look like he isn't a bad one. It remains to be seen if he will build a championship team around Luka soon enough, or even get Luka to stay here long-term, but I don't see any reason to automatically assume he won't.
RE: the 49ers, I think they'll bounce back. They mostly need to re-sign Dre Greenlaw and Jordan Mason and stay healthy. I'll say John Lynch has proven more than Pelinka as an executive. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers
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LakerDYnasty72 wrote: | I appreciate Rob's work ethic but this gift fell into our laps. The Mavs were sick of some things about Doncic, and were afraid he'd get worse if he got that Max extension this summer.
This is a classic example of sometimes it's better to be lucky that good. |
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