Offseason Thread

[Goldstar88]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

[Who]

Lakers waive Shake Milton, Jordan Goodwin and Trey Jamison. Doing this to sign Marcus Smart.

I liked J Goodwin when I saw him play. Good 3rd string defensive combo guard. I hope some team picks him up. He can play.

I see some Lakers fans are upset that Jordan Goodwin was waived. Some going as far to saying why get M Smart when we already have J Goodwin. It is not an unfair point. Smart has hardly contributed anything to his teams over the past 2 years due to injury. It is not clear what he will be able to contribute moving forward. Goodwin may end up being the more valuable player (due to availability alone). These Lakers fans Smart is, or may be, washed up. Not the player he was in the past and not a solution to anything. They might be right. I hope they are not. I love Smart. But they might be right. He has contributed nothing for 2 years.

[Goldstar88]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

I don?t think they are concerned about the regular season. Look at what GS did last year. They were a play-in team and knocked out the 2 seed.

[Big333223]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

Kawhi, Paul, Beal, Harden, Collins, Bogdanovic, Lopez... All more likely to player 40 games than 75.

[tazzmaniac]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

Kawhi, Paul, Beal, Harden, Collins, Bogdanovic, Lopez... All more likely to player 40 games than 75.

That's not true of Lopez.  He's played 78, 79 and 80 games the last 3 seasons.  For his career other than the 3 seasons he played less the 20 games, his lowest games played is 68 in 14 seasons. 

[Who]

Blake Wesley and the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed to a one-year deal. Wesley was recently waived by the Washington Wizards following his trade from the San Antonio Spurs.

Wesley was the 25th overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft..

A defensive SG with dodgy offense. He will be a 3rd stringer for POR.

[Who]

Josh Okogie and the Houston Rockets have agreed to a one-year, $3.1 million deal.

The rich get richer.

I don't like this for Okogie. There isn't playing time there for him. He will be a 3rd stringer. He is a solid bench player. He should have gone somewhere that would play him.

[SparzWizard]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

Kawhi, Paul, Beal, Harden, Collins, Bogdanovic, Lopez... All more likely to player 40 games than 75.

That's not true of Lopez.  He's played 78, 79 and 80 games the last 3 seasons.  For his career other than the 3 seasons he played less the 20 games, his lowest games played is 68 in 14 seasons.

Brook Lopez looks like a pretty healthy guy for a 37 year old Center. Unlike, say, Porzingis or Anthony Davis or Embiid haha

[SparzWizard]

Jrue Holiday is a 'name to monitor' as a potential target for the Lakers via Grant Afseth

[Ilikesports17]

On paper, the Clippers look amazing. They better do some serious load management so that guys are available for the playoffs.

Starters: Harden, Beal, Kawhi, Collins, Zubac
Bench: CP3, Dunn, Bogdanovic, Jones Jr, B. Lopez.

You can bet the farm that at least Kawhi and Paul will miss significant time (combination of injuries and load management). Probably Beal will miss a decent amount too. That puts a big crimp in what they can accomplish in the regular season.

Kawhi, Paul, Beal, Harden, Collins, Bogdanovic, Lopez... All more likely to player 40 games than 75.

That's not true of Lopez.  He's played 78, 79 and 80 games the last 3 seasons.  For his career other than the 3 seasons he played less the 20 games, his lowest games played is 68 in 14 seasons.

Brook Lopez looks like a pretty healthy guy for a 37 year old Center. Unlike, say, Porzingis or Anthony Davis or Embiid haha

Weirdest career. Started out looking like an injury prone no-defense inside scorer. Not that he missed a ton of games, but foot injuries early in the careers of big men typically dont bode well. Then he turned himself into an all-defense floor stretching iron man

[Who]

Jrue Holiday is a 'name to monitor' as a potential target for the Lakers via Grant Afseth

Hachimura is their only sizeable contract left outside their Big 3 of Luka, LeBron, A Reaves.

Hachimura and Vanderbilt works. Or is at least close. Hachimura would give Portland another big foward. Camara, Jerami Grant and Hachimura. Deni Avijda at SG or sliding over to SF and giving them 4 good forwards. Lillard to replace Jrue in the rotation next season once Lillard is healthy. Scoot and Shadeon the other guards.

That would be a solid trade for Portland.

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My mistake. Maxi Kleber and Gabe Vincent both making around $11mil a year. So they could put those 2 plus Vanderbilt to match Jrue's salary and keep Hachimura. Then they would have to give up draft capital. I think they only pick they have is that one far off into the future. You don't want to give up that pick for a 35yo guard like Jrue Holiday. You want a 25-27yo who will give you 6-8 good years.

I can see POR getting a 1st for Jrue but not one that valuable. Hachimura is fair value. He is also worth a 1st.

[Who]

Marcus Smart credited Doncic for recruiting him to Los Angeles at his introductory news conference with the Lakers on Tuesday.

"When you get a guy like Luka calling... checking on you, trying to see where you're at, to see if you want to come join something special that he's trying to cook up over here," Smart said. "For him to say that he can really use my help, that meant a lot."

[Who]

Jordan Goodwin has been claimed off free agency waivers by the Phoenix Suns. The Los Angeles Lakers had to waive Goodwin in order to accommodate the signing of Marcus Smart.

Good move by PHX.