Sooooo the Lakers are the 2nd worst team in the league

[Bostoncelticsforlife7]

Looks like their really trying to get their pick back haha, looking like the new sixers

[colincb]

They'd be smart to tank in this draft, but they don't have to. They just plain suck especially their recent draft picks and ownership.

[RAAAAAAAANDY]

I don't think they are tanking, I think they are terrible.

[RMO]

I know I should be rooting for them now so they lose their pick. . . . but I just can't do it.

[Bostoncelticsforlife7]

They'd be smart to tank in this draft, but they don't have to. They just plain suck especially their recent draft picks and ownership.

Ya I'm not too high on Russell, but if they could some how get their hands on a guy like Dennis Smith Jr.?? Their future would be looking really bright

[Denis998]

538 predicts that the lakers win as many games as Brooklyn from here on out. Brooklyn and Lakers winning 9 and 10 more games respectively.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

I still don't think they have an all-star on their roster.

Russel at best is Mike Conley on offense, but no defense.

Ingram looks like Rudy Gay/Harrison Barnes at best.

Randle is a difficult matchup, but is he a good enough two-way player to be an all-star? Is he an elite enough offensive player to be an all-star? I don't think so.

[footey]

I don't think they are tanking, I think they are terrible.

How about both.

[Ogaju]

No such thing....you can't be terrible and tank, that is an impossibility. You have to be good in order to tank.

[mr. dee]

I wouldn't be surprised if they mysteriously won  the lottery and take Fultz.

[Ogaju]

Don't think Silver likes them like Stern did.

[RAAAAAAAANDY]

People need to stop with this "the lottery is fixed nonsense" because it's realllllly dumb.

[SparzWizard]

Don't think Silver likes them like Stern did.no

If Stern liked them, he wouldn't have vetoed the CP3 to Lakers deal lol

[Ogaju]

Don't think Silver likes them like Stern did.no

If Stern liked them, he wouldn't have vetoed the CP3 to Lakers deal lol

How many times does it have to be explained that Stern did not nix the CP3 to Lakers deal, Cuban and Gilbert did.

[Smartacus]

People need to stop with this "the lottery is fixed nonsense" because it's realllllly dumb.

Well Anthony Davis went to the Pelicans the year the NBA sold the New Orleans franchise to Tom Benson's group potentially increasing the value of the franchise by $100's of millions and Derrick Rose went to his hometown Chicago on a 1.7% chance. There was the New York Knicks fiasco in the 80's and the fact that they don't show them pulling the picks in real time.

If it's not fixed, the NBA has had a terrible run of luck from events making it look fixed.