NBA: ***Official 2019 NBA Playoffs Thread***
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I think the Lakers got the better of it by a bit due to 2 of those 1st round picks will probably end up being pretty late in that round.
I would say it is if they had a chance in hell at re signing him. They didn’t and Rich Paul already has told other teams like Boston he’s a one year rental.
LA not giving up Kuzma is critical.
If I was N.O. I’d flip that #4.
How many years are left on AD's contract? Can't remember for sure but if it's 2 or less NO probably did about as well as they could given the circumstances.
I do think AD is slightly overrated compared to how good people think he is, slightly. I think NO still has a good building block for the future.
BTW, look out for Lavar Ball to get back into the public eye since whatever the Lakers did to shut him up won't be in effect anymore.
interesting trade, I can imagine Ball being traded as surrounding Zion with bad shooters wont work at all, would make for a great defensive backcourt with Holiday though. Guessing they got enough good news health wise about all of the Lakers players they recieved otherwise it could go down as an all time blunder.
Most likely, but the Pelicans took a real long view on this trade. Between having the Lakers pick out right and pick swaps they basically own every Laker first round pick through 2025. Who knows what the Lakers will look like post LeBron. That’s a ton of future draft capital the Pelicans have now.
NO will have a pretty good, very young team to build with that's for sure.
They need to put Lonzo at PG, that's where he belongs. The guy could avg about 12 assists a game if he wanted to. He's a distributor, not a shooter.
And they will have Zion and whoever they take at #4, plus Ingraham, Hart, etc.
They won't be great at first, but could definitely develop into something in a few years. Plus they'll have the draft picks to go get people too.
They need to put Lonzo at PG, that's where he belongs. The guy could avg about 12 assists a game if he wanted to. He's a distributor, not a shooter.
And they will have Zion and whoever they take at #4, plus Ingraham, Hart, etc.
They won't be great at first, but could definitely develop into something in a few years. Plus they'll have the draft picks to go get people too.
Ball, Holiday, Ingram, Zion and Okafor isn't a terrible lineup but may struggle to shoot and would be undersized. Adding another big through and a couple of shooters through FA or with their horde of 1st rounders could make them pretty solid in a couple of years. I wouldn't be shocked to see them take two Dukies with this years picks, they'll have to start calling New Orleans Cameron Indoor West.
Sounds like AD won't waive his $4M trade kicker and the Pelicans won't wait until July 30th to complete the trade as it stands now. This is big because it leaves LA well short of being able to offer another max contract, they need both of those things to happen to have enough cap room to offer a full max deal to any other free agents.
I don’t think LeBron and AD with no pieces outside of that is enough.
