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Pipe Dream: Blazers n Nets come off their offers. Rui Gabe Wood 29 1st 3 seconds for Grant n Rob Will DLo Hayes Reddish 31 1st some seconds for Cam Johnson either Dayron sharpe/ Dennis starting 5 : AR, Cam, Grant, Bron, AD Dennis, Max, Dalton, Vando, Rob will Championship team‼️🔥

Best path forward is trading AD and Reaves while they have maximum value. This is not a championship level team. Get some young guys and picks, if LeBron wants to stick around fine, we don’t have our own first round pick anyway. But trade AD coming off his healthiest year and trade Austin before he’s effectively in his final cheap contract year.

I will never understand the DLo hate. He set the freaking franchise record for 3 points made!!!!

Losten were in win now mode. Not spending picks now to think about a.d later while not even havin another star is insane..u have 2 superstars rn the trade is going to be eprfect but u spend the pics and u dont think about saving them to "maximize" a.d 4 years from now lol what are we going to do maximize a d to help us get the 6th seed and bounce first round in the playoffs lol

I like Anfernee Simons contract and he’s been playing at all star level 😮

I don’t care what Kamenetsky says, Bron and AD are championship ready but Jeanie and Rob are not, that is anti-Lakers, it’s 🐂 💩!!!!

Im pissed they didnt sign dinwiddie. We need a backup pg and if we trade dlo spence van make up a bunch of production we lose from dlo for 1/8th of the price!! Cutting cam and signing spence.. then trading dlo and rui and grant. U 100% get better!!!! And even if reeves cant start at pg and it has to be spence reeves grant bron and a d thats deff a BETTER starting linup than with dlo and rui.. and it fits way netter and they can defend way better and u still have shooters! The fact rob let spence walk when he is the most talented vet min around rn is asinine and pure incompetance!!!

Would suck to lose rui and gabe (who we never got to really see), but I’d be keen for the grant deal, then go get nick Richards to play the backup 5 (as you might be able to afford him more so than the likes of Kessler). Thoughts?

The goal should be to build a team like Boston. Five 2 way players all who can defend dribble pass and shoot. Regardless of who you decide to trade for we still would have holes in the lineup where one or two players are horrible on one side of the floor. That's so far from ideal.

Dont really want to be Always sarcastic, but from 2 guys Who have most of the time(if not Always) justify LeBron behaviour, production and huge contract, we cant really have no hints about the Path the Lakers have to take..

Bruce Brown such a clean fit on this roster. Can hone the Alex Caruso/Derrick White role for this Lakers team. DLo/Brown AR/Brown works tremendously well alongside LBJ & AD. Jovan BUHHHAAAA 💯💯💯

They are doing it again. Making bare minimum moves hoping the coaching was the problem from last year. I will have to agree with most. The Jeannie and Rob era has been horrible. You had a championship team and tore it down. And honestly haven't made any real moves since then. Well at least we got 1 chip.

Currently these are the teams I believe are better than us. Denver, OKC, Mavs, Grizzlies, Kings, T Wovles. Thats 6 teams we for sure are not better than us. Possibles GS, Spurs, Rockets. This year will be tougher than last year and that is crazy too say.

Is it time for Rob Pelinka to decide which hat to wear? As the GM of the 2020 NBA champions LA Lakers, Pelinka has worked in that role for seven years having joined the Lakers in 2017. Before then he was an NBA sports agent, working for 21 years representing such players as Tracy McGrady, Kwame Brown, and of course Kobe Bryant. As an agent, he worked for SFX Sports Group. You might say he cut his teeth while working there, as that was his first job upon graduation in 1996 with a law degree from University of Michigan Law School, according to Wikipedia. His time as Lakers GM has been ... well, marked by extremes. On the one hand, he won a championship; but on the other, he traded for Russell Westbrook. He signed players like Caldwell Pope and Malik Monk, but hired coach Darvin Ham. Nevertheless, perhaps the biggest charge against his tenure as GM is he keeps "missing around the edges." What that means, in part, is he's making too many contract blunders. He signed Reeves and Horton Tucker to three-year, player-friendly, rookie contracts when he could have signed them to team-friendly four-year contracts. He signed Cam Reddish and Jaxson Hayes to two-year contracts with the second year being player options when he could have possibly gotten those players with second-year team options. The problem that Pelinka seems to have is he is signing contracts like a GM, but he is negotiating them like a player agent. Habits are hard things to break, especially when you are not aware you are operating out of habit. Add intense emotions around actions that become habits and those habits take on the guise of a puppeteer jerking your strings from the background. As a fresh-out-of-law-school young man, Pelinka undoubtedly tackled his first job with gusto and excitement, creating life-long habits along the way. Those habits likely served him well wearing the hat of a sports agent, but they are working against him wearing the hat of a GM, especially if he has yet to realize he is being jerked around by the man behind the curtain -- himself.

So excited to see Jovan interview one of the fabulous Kamenetzky brothers!

‼️Jovan is the only lakers reporter that actually criticizes this bum front office. Everyone else is afraid to lose access or some BS so they refrain from speaking the truth. Rob is trash.. 💯💯

Bruce Brown & Capela is maybe our latest & only hope for a somewhat improved roster next season

Please no j's 👃🤢

Dlo for Sexton. Gabe Vincent for Carter Jr.

And I’m soooo sick of the, “It’s sooooo hard to build around a 28,7, and 7 guy and the best defensive big in basketball! Boo whooo!” No other GM is saying that ish. Lol!

Lakers must fire rob

I like the new Jovan going after Rob.

I wonder if having Grant's expiring contract would be a good thing in 3-4 years since trades are much easier to make than signing free agents these days.

Thank you Jovan finally somebody who’s not to scared to be speak on them not even dumbing a roster spot for a 2nd.! 1 second! Trev said clippers just had to do a 2nd round pick swap and lakers still won’t drop one of these player option guys. Great episode! Great job Andy!

This team is an AD and/or Bron injury away from being a lottery team.

Tyus Jones is a playable point guard that’s still available

Rob Pelinka going be looking like a genius when he goes gets Steph and didn’t trade all his assets for Klay Thompson or Jeremiah Grant

the lakers have a good shot to win. they need to address a couple of moves. 1 center to deal with joker and then a 2 way for point guard/wing/shooter for play offs. they are 2 moves away from winning.

AK hit the nail on the head. Getting Westbrook was the nail that nailed LBJs title window closed.

This really isn't rocket science. In any league, on any level, fundamental tenants of the game remain simple. Defense, rebounding, and depth. There are no doubt other variables, but the above are essential. While you two and so many others seem determined to #1, TRADE Dlo, for no good reason (top 3 lead guard, in the LEAUGE), blaming him for ALL Laker woes, which is ridiculous. Finally, if the Lakers AREN'T successful, it'll be because JJ is all hype and mouth, with no substance, AND he's clueless, NOT the roster!

I get what Andy is saying by being patient… but still. You can’t have two top 10 guys on your roster and not do everything you can to compete right away. The lakers almost got swept in the first round last year but yet they are bringing back the same exact roster….

This was great, but its quixotic, you are waxing poetic beautifully on where the lakers should have made a move or who they should be looking at, but at the end of the day this is a holy mess. Lakers front office is woefully bad at foresight, woefully bad at cap management, woefully bad around the league with players and agents including Klutch. Lakers are woefully bad at player relations, they have at least 7 guys who don't feel they are really wanted. That is ridiculous for a team who is trying to create a culture where players are developed for the long term. They are woefully indecisive and have a woefully over inflated sense of entitlement. Nobody wants any player they have and nobody wants to help them do anything like a trade. Tough decisions then must be made. DLo must go, im a Cam Stan and I know he got to go too, bite the bullet already and get both off this team. DLo is the epitome of the really bad idea that almost makes sense. Please get him off this team by any means possible.

There not going to make a trade. They don’t see anyone they want to use the 1st round picks on. They’d only want a markkenan type of player. But what they have is not enough.

I don’t think we need to trade anybody man. With horrible coaching we had 47 wins leading to the 7th slot. Jaxson Hayes got too many DNP’s/litte minutes, barely seen Max Christie, Vando was out pretty much all year, Reddish before his injury was top 10 in steals and wasn’t himself last half of season, and Gabe was out all year. We upgraded to a more competent all around coaching staff all the players will be healthy and most importantly we build continuity. With all that I believe we have what it takes to win I think people are overreacting to our bench. D’lo, AR, Vando, Bron, AD Gabe, Max, Reddish, Rui, Hayes Wood/Knecht/JHS

I mean, you could tell that LeBron eats all the food and then A.D. comes and licks the plate 💪🏽

I believe the Lakers will get a Big...maybe a wing to back up the 3

Hey Andy...Jovan... Thanks for sharing 👍

Let’s gooo love to see the collabs with my fav laker CZcamsrs hahaha

Grant initially stated he didn’t want to be a 3rd option when leaving Detroit. People forget that. He would not work as a Laker.

Front office trash!

Pelinka shouldn't never gave Reddish, hayes, Wood player ootions. What a dumb move! Pelinka needs ti go

No way dlo, Rui, Vando have negative value. Dlo average 18 rui was good in right role, Vando one of best perimeter defender in league. This is all cause they play for lakers.

Good to see you my friend puerto rico in the house nice like always lakers😂 jovan buhaaaaaaaa

This team is shot!! It is poorly constructed by a GM who doesn’t understand chemistry and an owner who is too frugal for today’s basketball logic. We were forever snakebit as soon as Rob fiddled with the 2020 squad.

Simply, the Lakers roster, LeBron and AD, top 10 players in the NBA, then the rest including DLo, Rui, and AR are play in team level in the West. The Lakers need send 2~3 players and get a genuine star. This star isn't just for now but also the future when Lebron retires. Also, by sending 2~3 players, make roster spots. The best way to get a star would be DLo's contract, Gabe's contract and/or AR's value. It probably won't happen, but the best trade I could think of would be Steph or Dame and give up DLo, Gabe, AR, and/or Rui.

We need shirts with yo-yo on it 🔥🔥🔥💯

I feel like Jovan is just a genuine good dude. Love the show brodie #YoYoooooo

TRADE Lo (no D cuz he plays none) + 1st for Wendell Carter Jr & Cole Anthony .... get Davis the help he so desperately needs. Send Diangela somewhere warm where the basketball is meaningless - perfect for him (since he shoots 39% CAREER FG in playoffs)!!! 🙀🙀🙀

buha,,,buha,,,is a thing

Lock on lakers