it will be hard to acquire Tier one talents vs The Lakers, winning teams, and upcoming teams with cap space/young players/assets
Lakers will have

Towns/Ok4
Julius Randle
2nd round draft pick this summer, pick 34, *THEY CAN DRAFT A SOLID PG here in this draft as well to work with or another very good player*
Nick Young
They could keep Wesley Johnson as they own his early bird rights and still have a lot of cap space to work with this summer and next seasons TOP TIER talents with over 70-80m to work with and a FULL MLE on top of it, they can sign one player at a huge discount this summer and still have much room to to attract talnets next season

*early bird rights after this upcoming season, with limited cap hold*
Jordan Clarkson
Jabari Brown

up to 3 MAX talents to persue or they can sign 2 in 2017 and fill out the roster accordingly with the rest of the cap space
They can add talent this summer to contend for a play off spot this summer as well signing one of

LA
Kevin Love
Monroe

DeAndre Jordan
Marc Gasol

So with the projected cap going up to about 80-90m and a young talented core, they could have the ability to sign 3 MAX players with Kobe contract coming off the books next summer in 2017 and possibly even more
With the early bird rights of Clarkson and Brown, they will have the ability to resign them or match an offer, to also still have the FULL MLE NEXT SUMMER as well
This upcoming season, they could seek to sign cap friendly deals, or add TOP TIER FA's with a core to likely contend for a title for the upcoming years
Whether it could be selling it the LA with Towns/OK4 to pair with or other talents like Kevin Love or Greg Monroe, any FA will choose the Lakers over NYK's with their core and ability to contend/improve for many years upcoming

MLE next SUMMER

callmened wrote:I agree they definitely benefited Last night. Don't forget Jordan Clarkson is Pretty good too

Same is true of Minnesota, which had a number of injuries throughout the year which hurt helped them in the long run.

We would have been in a similar situation if Anthony had closed down his season earlier rather than later.

mreinman wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

callmened wrote:I agree they definitely benefited Last night. Don't forget Jordan Clarkson is Pretty good too

I won't say it was exactly the same, but Bryant and Randle being out was similar to what happened with Robinson and SA years ago when they were able to get Duncan.

Same is true of Minnesota, which had a number of injuries throughout the year which hurt helped them in the long run.

We would have been in a similar situation if Anthony had closed down his season earlier rather than later.

but what about the great people of london and the kids watching the all star game?

Meaning by 2017, they will have the ability to attract and sign 3 ALL STAR talents like the Heat did in 2010 in addition to the development's of the above
They could sign LA/Millsap/Gasol, as a MAX talent contract as a discount this summer, and could "contend" for a play off spot by next season

Durant
Whiteside or Horford * depending if they draft Towns or if OK4 can develop to a PF*
another MAX PLAYER or divide it up on a couple of talents, if Lebron wants to chase RINGS, they could have a dynasty in the making

FULL MLE in 2017 with the cap holds on Jordan Clarkson and Jabari Brown being low, they have a BRIGHT FUTURE
They can use part of this to keep Kobe but if Lebron was in the conversations, Lakers will choose Lebron and Durant, possibly Whiteside or Horford, instead of keeping Kobe at his age
There is a chance that Kobe could resign at much less but is unlikely due to his *personality and age*

mreinman wrote:

Vmart wrote:

mreinman wrote:

Vmart wrote:Lakers org is always going to get gifts from the league. The Lakers are one of the dirty secrets of the league.

thanks playa

you are the new conspiracy theorist

The league loves guys like you. You make it easy to sweep shyt under the rug. Explain Cleveland's 3 number one picks to me after LeBron. Explain why everyone says that Ewing lottery was rigged. I'm not the first. I read somewhere a long time ago how important the Lakers winning was important to ratings and the owners all wanted the Lakers to do well because they helped the revenue stream.

if I owned stock in the NBA I would care more if they were cooking the books.

either way, you think that adam silver meets guys in red square with a hoodie on? c'mon

I don't find the process fun with the draft. It's not public, with the NFL it goes by record. With this system of lottery it allows for things to be more covert it's not an open and shut case. I liked it better when it went by record. This isn't preventing tanking if anything teams are tanking for better odds and more teams are in in it.

Do you guys realized the Knicks are the only team that got f'ed. I know a lot of you guys are hard core basketball guys. I know I'm pissed about this draft lottery and I might get the player I want out if the deal. They have to get rid of this lottery system. It's not good it leaves a lot of room for speculation especially when Cleveland gets 3 out of 4 that is F'ing ridiculous.

mreinman wrote:
but what about the great people of london and the kids watching the all star game?

THAT quote literally had me LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!

mreinman wrote:have you ever seen a roulette board get one color many times in a row which completely defies the odds?

how about a poker tournament where players kept drawing 2 outers?

the point is that this happens and will only adjust over a very long period of time.

I like the lotto. Its exciting and does not reward the complete tank. The NFL system is stupid and boring.

Phil Jackson traded a guy that was a top 5 center this year, a quality defender and guy that's making 6.6MM next season and just dropped 28pts and 8rbs for 2 second round picks and Calderon. Which is ****ing embarrassing. There is never a moment of thought to anything this franchise ever does.