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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:04 pm    Post subject:

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Kobe Bryant Makes Passionate Plea For LaMarcus Aldridge To Join The Lakers
Source Sports source sports4 hours ago


http://thesource.com/2015/07/03/kobe-bryant-makes-passionate-plea-for-lamarcus-aldridge-to-join-the-lakers/


Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Kobe was not in the 2nd meeting. This information has to do with the first meeting. This report is misleading, making the reader believe that Kobe is right now reaching out to LaMarcus, when in reality, this ship has sailed.


The link isn't working for me so I can't read the article, but if that's what it's referencing, yes that would be the first meeting. Kobe did not attend the 2nd meeting (from all reports).
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:32 pm    Post subject:

The Lakers are on the Clock


This isn’t a team that’s one free-agent signing from competing for a title. This isn’t a roster that’s one move from vaulting up the Western Conference Standings — where it takes 50 wins just to earn a chance to get on the VIP postseason list. With Kobe Bryant coming off his third major injury, sophomore Julius Randle coming off a rookie campaign that lasted less than one game before he lost his season to a broken leg and D’Angelo Russell having proven nothing at the NBA level, this is a Lakers team that offers nothing about its future, instead relying on past glory in order to sell the future.

And that’s exactly the problem. The Lakers are living in the past.

https://www.todaysfastbreak.com/nba-west/pacific/los-angeles-lakers-on-clock-free-agency/
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:39 pm    Post subject:

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Kobe Bryant Makes Passionate Plea For LaMarcus Aldridge To Join The Lakers
Source Sports source sports4 hours ago


http://thesource.com/2015/07/03/kobe-bryant-makes-passionate-plea-for-lamarcus-aldridge-to-join-the-lakers/


Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Kobe was not in the 2nd meeting. This information has to do with the first meeting. This report is misleading, making the reader believe that Kobe is right now reaching out to LaMarcus, when in reality, this ship has sailed.
Word is that Kobe and Aldridge met privately

How serious was Kobe's efforts to have Jordan and Aldridge to join Kobe to form another Big Three? Maybe Kobe is trying one more time to beat Lebron "Big Three" legacy he set forth in Miami and Cleveland? Mitch and Jimmy can't do this but Kobe can

Note: Jordan just signed with the Mavs. Who will the Clips get to replace Jordan - a second tier center. The Clippers are trying to be another version of the Warriors without the shooters. What are the odds now that the Lakers will finish higher than the Clippers with an aging CP3 and an aging bench with Pierce (good player) and Stevenson (good head case).

http://www.inquisitr.com/2215716/la-lakers-rumors-kobe-wants-both-lamarcus-aldridge-and-deandre-jordan/


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:44 pm    Post subject:

Report: Aldridge steps back to consider plans
UPDATED 4:34 PM EDT Jul 03, 2015



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Free agent forward LaMarcus Aldridge will take some time to weigh his future after meeting with multiple teams the past few days, according to a report.

Lakers on Thursday night for a discussion centered on basketball, ESPN reported.

The Lakers sought a second meeting after they learned their first presentation in Aldridge's eyes was too focused on off-the-court opportunities and not on how the team envisioned using him. General manager Mitch Kupchak, coach Byron Scott and assistant coach Mark Madsen were in attendance to make the presentation.

The 29-year-old Aldridge also has met with the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns, according to multiple reports. ESPN reported that Aldridge met with Heat president Pat Riley for dinner on Thursday night.

http://www.wptz.com/sports/report-aldridge-steps-back-to-consider-plans/33985972
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:51 pm    Post subject:

Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:05 pm    Post subject:

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Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
ah, the anticipated bashing begins

When the Nash/Howard deals were completed, everybody said they were geniuses - including Magic

Which GM has anything close to the success Mitch has?

Who would you want to replace Mitch
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:53 pm    Post subject:

A Mad Chinaman wrote:
DB8 wrote:
Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
ah, the anticipated bashing begins

When the Nash/Howard deals were completed, everybody said they were geniuses - including Magic

Which GM has anything close to the success Mitch has?

Who would you want to replace Mitch


Let's not get carried away. The success that Mitch has????????One trade that has actually worked out (Pau), and he has been living off that for years.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:56 pm    Post subject:

DB8 wrote:
Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
I think if you look there might be a piss and moan thread for the front office where you'll find others that feel the way you do.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:04 pm    Post subject:

echobats wrote:
A Mad Chinaman wrote:
DB8 wrote:
Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
ah, the anticipated bashing begins

When the Nash/Howard deals were completed, everybody said they were geniuses - including Magic

Which GM has anything close to the success Mitch has?

Who would you want to replace Mitch
dLet's not get carried away. The success that Mitch has????????One trade that has actually worked out (Pau), and he has been living off that for years.
How many GM can have a team considered by the vast majority of the pundits to win a ring after a historic "basketball" decision made by Stern.

The Pau trade was a great trade among other successful trades

What GMs have a better track record of success

What GM would you hire to replace Mitch
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:29 pm    Post subject:

akgolf wrote:
DB8 wrote:
Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
I think if you look there might be a piss and moan thread for the front office where you'll find others that feel the way you do.


Fair enough - I'm new here and I don't thing I'm always right but to me this is less moaning and more frustration.

Here are a few things I find disturbing about the FO:

Who are the basketball minds behind this team? There is Mitch and then who? Kobe, Scott, Madsen, with Magic tossing in an idea here and there?

Why did they not see this colossus failure coming? To make such a big scene of going after LMA when everything pointed to him going some place else? Did they not talk to his agent group first to gauge what LMA was looking for? And Monroe how does that happen - do you think Jerry Buss would go begging for second tier talent?

Shouldn't they have realized their current situation with unproven rookies meant that a vet wanting to win now wouldn't work? How long will the hang on to Kobe as though he is some viable option to bring about a wining team, I mean would anyone be surprised if he could only play 25 games this year?

Why did they not have Davis locked up? Why don't they have a target of top young talent instead of running out this god awful Rondo garbage....

Pissing and Moaning ... I guess
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:48 pm    Post subject:

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What has happen to the once darling of the NBA the Los Angeles Lakers....

On July first the NBA free agency commenced. As a life long Laker fan I was overly excited like a kid in a candy store. With the Lakers having plenty of cap space, I anxiously anticipated how the Lakers would go about adding key free agents to a less then formidable roster that won 21 games and finished 46 games out of first place in the Western Conference. My excitement turned to disappointment very quickly, as I watched not only top teams but cellar dwellers all improved their rosters by either agreeing to resigning players like the Cavs and Warriors while the Bucks and Suns added key free agents to an already talent latent teams. As I sat and watched the once storied franchise miss on free agent targets LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love (resigned with the Cavaliers for a max deal) and Greg Monroe who choose the Bucks. I could not help but wonder what has went so terribly wrong with Los Angeles Lakers.


http://rodneydupreenichols.sportsblog.com/posts/2764208/what-has-happen-to-the-once-darling-of-the-nba-the-los-angeles-lakers----.html
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:50 pm    Post subject:

Report: Free agent LaMarcus Aldridge weighing future

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FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, JULY 03, 2015 04:51 PM EDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, JULY 03, 2015 04:55 PM EDT

Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge (12) is guarded closely by Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors during NBA action at the Air Canada Centre. (Tom Szczerbowski/USA TODAY Sports)

Free agent forward LaMarcus Aldridge will take some time to weigh his future after meeting with multiple teams the past few days, according to a report.

Aldridge met a second time for about 90 minutes with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night for a discussion centered on basketball, ESPN reported.

The Lakers sought a second meeting after they learned their first presentation in Aldridge’s eyes was too focused on off-the-court opportunities and not on how the team envisioned using him. General manager Mitch Kupchak, coach Byron Scott and assistant coach Mark Madsen were in attendance to make the presentation.

The 29-year-old Aldridge also has met with the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns, according to multiple reports. ESPN reported that Aldridge met with Heat president Pat Riley for dinner on Thursday night.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/03/report-free-agent-lamarcus-aldridge-weighing-future
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:53 pm    Post subject:

NBA Free Agency: Latest Buzz Surrounding LaMarcus Aldridge
By Nick Selbe , Featured Columnist Jul 3, 2015

NBA free agency began at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and teams around the league wasted no time in dishing out expensive contracts. On the first day alone, teams agreed in principle to pay over $1.4 billion in player salary, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

That includes massive contract extensions given out to Anthony Davis and Kevin Love, but it does not include a player that still remains unsigned—LaMarcus Aldridge.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2514144-nba-free-agency-latest-buzz-surrounding-lamarcus-aldridge
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:40 pm    Post subject:

echobats wrote:
A Mad Chinaman wrote:
DB8 wrote:
Lakers Begging get a Pity Meeting because the Agent Group allowed the Lakers to be insulted in the first one.

Best news is Jimmy may be gone - even better news would be if Jennie would fire herself and send all the silly Buss kids off tho the beach... FOREVER

Now we're talking about Rondo and Amar'e Stoudemire .... The Laker FO is so fricken pathetic.

Jennie will talk about the lakers as though they are a grand institution that she must protect as a public trust.

Remember ( Pain Weber, RCA, E.F.Hutton, ComPaq, TWA, General Foods, Standard Oil, Pan Am, Wards, Enron, Delphi, Delta, Leman Brothers) they could all make the same assertion and it would have been as equally irrelevant.

What a crock of immature BS and the fact she believes this proves she is delusional and has lost total perspective. The Lakers are not a public trust or a symbol of great values, they are a basketball team that is a billion dollar entertainment business because of mass media contracts.

Before "Show Time" Jerry Buss build a basketball team by acquiring the right players and coaches. He built a management team out of basketball people like Jerry West. You can't have show time without the players and coaches. Just grabbing an all star here and there won't get you back to Show Time.

The Lakers are a shell of what they were with the Buss kids running it and not one of them would ever be hired to a similar position with another team because they don't have the talent necessary... Silly rich daddy kids playing at business is all this is.
ah, the anticipated bashing begins

When the Nash/Howard deals were completed, everybody said they were geniuses - including Magic

Which GM has anything close to the success Mitch has?

Who would you want to replace Mitch


Let's not get carried away. The success that Mitch has????????One trade that has actually worked out (Pau), and he has been living off that for years.


Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Jerry West working with Memphis at that same time as the trade...I'm pretty sure he was...
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:56 pm    Post subject:

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Cha*n wrote:
Kobe Bryant Makes Passionate Plea For LaMarcus Aldridge To Join The Lakers
Source Sports source sports4 hours ago


http://thesource.com/2015/07/03/kobe-bryant-makes-passionate-plea-for-lamarcus-aldridge-to-join-the-lakers/
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Kobe was not in the 2nd meeting. This information has to do with the first meeting. This report is misleading, making the reader believe that Kobe is right now reaching out to LaMarcus, when in reality, this ship has sailed.
Can anybody share how Aldridge would fit into the Lakers' plan without having a legitimate center, since Jordan just signed with Dallas

Black or Hill (if resigned) would play center

What would they do with the abundance of PFs they have with Randle, Kelly and others?

Maybe they will play the same waiting game the Warriors are playing in regards to David Lee

Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson, Tarik Black, Jabari Brown, D’Angelo Russell, Larry Nance Jr., Anthony Brown, Dwight Buycks and Robert Upshaw (who could be the next Hassan Whiteside) are a promising bunch of players.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:07 pm    Post subject:

LaMarcus Aldridge free agency: San Antonio, Phoenix emerge as frontrunners, photos reveal Spurs' recruiting lunch

Bruce Ely | The Oregonian/OregonLive

The Trail Blazers appear to have taken a backseat in the LaMarcus Aldridge sweepstakes.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports, the four-time All-Star has narrowed his free agent focus to the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns and is leaning toward leaving Rip City after a nine-year run.

The San Antonio Spurs, led by coach Gregg Popovich and assistant coach Ime Udoka — a Portland native and former Blazers player — made one last recruiting pitch to Aldridge during a lunch in Los Angeles on Friday.

Two bystanders captured photos of the meeting and posted them on social media.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2015/07/lamarcus_aldridge_free_agency_san_antonio_spurs_ph.html
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:13 pm    Post subject:

NBA Free Agency: Latest news, rumors and updates


By Eye on Basketball staff

July 3, 2015 9:48 am ET

Los Angeles Lakers

The Lakers are interested in swingman Corey Brewer, according to ESPN's Chris Broussard.

The Lakers are starting to look at roster fillers and placeholder options inside withAmar'e Stoudemire and Jason Smith landing on their radar, L.A. Daily NewsLakers beat writer Mike Medina reports.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25232257/nba-free-agency-latest-news-rumors-and-updates
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:16 pm    Post subject:

Buying or Selling the Latest Los Angeles Lakers Rumors in 2015 NBA Free Agency

Sources say LaMarcus Aldridge hasn't made a final decision yet, but the Lakers would be wise to move past him all the same.

As of this writing, the Los Angeles Lakers have yet to make any moves in free agency.

Most of the big prizes are already gone, which leaves LaMarcus Aldridge—whom the Lakers have met with twice already—as the lone star left to make a decision.

In addition to pursuing Aldridge, L.A. must focus on signing role players to fill out and marginally improve the roster.

The rumor mill is still churning as we continue through the moratorium period. Let's play a little "buy or sell" with the latest Lakers scuttlebutt.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2514291-buying-or-selling-the-latest-los-angeles-lakers-rumors-in-2015-nba-free-agency
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:29 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:47 pm    Post subject:

Lets all just change our avatars and signatures to the facepalm emoji until 2024 when the team is relevant again, yeah?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:48 pm    Post subject:

Letters: Much ado about nothing with the Lakers

DON BARTLETTI AND WALLY SKALIJ / LOS ANGELES TIMES

Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak, left, and Vice President Jim Buss have acquired some promising young talent in the last two drafts but acquiring veteran free agents has been a problem.

Dwyane Wade to stay with Heat, Tim Duncan returning to Spurs
July 3, 2015, 4:26 p.m.
Can you imagine Jerry Buss being turned down by every major free agent in the NBA? How tone-deaf are Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss? Don't they have any league intel to tell them who may be receptive to their overtures before they go all out, only to be embarrassingly rejected? All the cap room in the world means nothing if you can't get the first guy to come.

Kevin Durant in 2016, really?

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83924636/
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:34 pm    Post subject: To get nothing, not even your own free agents or players?

To give up Jordan Hill and Ed Davis is a cardinal sin by the Lakers.

Sure they are not top tier, but they are players.

After them it is worse than the scrubs.

The Lakers FO seems like the most incompetent in the NBA. They seems to
have delusions of grandeur.

Why not just take what you can get for next season.

Remember that the pick goes to Philly so cannot tank.

Or are they thinking they want to tank really big time?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:44 pm    Post subject: Re: To get nothing, not even your own free agents or players?

laker50 wrote:
To give up Jordan Hill and Ed Davis is a cardinal sin by the Lakers.

Sure they are not top tier, but they are players.

After them it is worse than the scrubs.

The Lakers FO seems like the most incompetent in the NBA. They seems to
have delusions of grandeur.

Why not just take what you can get for next season.

Remember that the pick goes to Philly so cannot tank.

Or are they thinking they want to tank really big time?
Ah, the haters are out tonight

Davis got $$$ that he would not have received from the Lakers plus he will get more (deservedly) more PT in Portland since LA will behaving.

Hill is not gone. Lakers are hoping to get him at a lower salary. Given that his name has not come up when David Lee, David West and others are being mentioned - FO made a wise move
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:02 pm    Post subject: Just calling it as see it

You must remember that the next years first round choice goes to Philly unless
LA tanks really big time. and even then they can get bad luck and loose the pick.

It would seem to make more sense to improve the team instead of taking the tanking option.

Ed Davis would have take an earlier reasonable contract.

Jordan Hill by pride has to get more than he was dissed for.

The Lakers must learn to take players feelings into consideration.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: To get nothing, not even your own free agents or players?

A Mad Chinaman wrote:
laker50 wrote:
To give up Jordan Hill and Ed Davis is a cardinal sin by the Lakers.

Sure they are not top tier, but they are players.

After them it is worse than the scrubs.

The Lakers FO seems like the most incompetent in the NBA. They seems to
have delusions of grandeur.

Why not just take what you can get for next season.

Remember that the pick goes to Philly so cannot tank.

Or are they thinking they want to tank really big time?
Ah, the haters are out tonight

Davis got $$$ that he would not have received from the Lakers plus he will get more (deservedly) more PT in Portland since LA will behaving.

Hill is not gone. Lakers are hoping to get him at a lower salary. Given that his name has not come up when David Lee, David West and others are being mentioned - FO made a wise move
yup. We dont have to sign just for the sake of signing. I still have faith in Mitch. Just a bit of patience n hope other keep signing players as long as they are not pieces we want.
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