Woj reports the Lakers number one priority is still Kyrie Irving and that the Spurs could help facilitate a 3-team deal.
San Antonio would be incentivized to take on Russell Westbrook with multiple first round picks.
This has come up in other threads. The general thoughts are these:
1. Where are the FRPs coming from? Lakers only have two, many years from now, and they would have to go to Brooklyn.
2. Brooklyn and Los Angeles can just do the trade alone.
3. I doubt Brooklyn intends to revitalize Los Angeles for basically nothing or very little.
no.
Thanks for that
Hard to picture a notoriously frugal team that pinched pennies during the Duncan era buying Westbrook out for $47mil... I guess we'll see. You don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face, but using all of that cap space to help the Lakers potentially compete again, and to help Kyrie get his way feels really lame.
Helps Fakers get a shot at another ring, weak-ass Lebron tying Timmy's ring count. nope
imo just getting rid of Westbrook for actual useful players (not Irving) will cost the Lakers both their 2027 and 2029 picks. They might be able to get some protections on there depending on which players they get in return.
But yeah, the only way I see the Spurs getting involved is if there's a 4th team too, one that would take Irving and provide enough assets on top of what the Lakers offer to appease both the Nets and Spurs. And even then there's probably no need for the Spurs to get involved at all. WB's contract is awful but it's only for one year.
why are people even falling for this narrative? The Lakers don't have the assets for a Westbrook/Kyrie swap
Thanks for the update OP. Do you use AOL or Netscape Navigator?
I don't see any scenerio where it makes sense. Nets and Lakers don't have the picks to send us for absorbing that. It would need to be a 4-5 team trade, what even realistically would it look like? Who would the Nets be getting?
The only thing this happen is if Fakers include AD in the conversation. But that would be dumb, but knowing the Fakers, who knows?
Multiple as in at least 2 oozing with potential to be top 5 picks and the Spurs should give it a sniff.
Since that won't really be known until the summer passes and injuries etc get sussed out..... no.
Sounds like just more Laker paid off media phucks pushing propaganda.
Jeannie is already on her knees performing on multiple Nets execs and owners along with bags of under the table money.
The Laker Way.
I'd take their two firsts unprotected for Westbrook and they can have Mc Balls too. But don't see what Brooklyn gets out of the deal then.
Not to mention the fact that Brooklyn has made it clear that they don't want Westbrook.
Lakers just don’t have the assets to get it done for both the spurs and the nets. Unless the spurs really value a player on the nets that gets sent to SA… Bring Patty homejk lol
NETS: McDermott, Talen Horton Tucker, LAL pick swap
LAL: Irving & Langford
SAS: Westbrook (buyout) & two unprotected picks that we can pray turn into a player in our next big three
Did you guys hear that KD wants out?
He might make Pop retire so this could be a good thing.
The Spurs basically sold a second round pick for peanuts. Taking on a mega contract in order to receive back peanuts doesn't sound very Spurs-like.
The Spurs routinely hand out re ed contracts and then have to pay for dudes that arent even here anymore (Carroll, Pau, etc)they're not THAT frugal
Do you mean this latest draft? Sorta. They're getting the Lakers' SRP in a few years, so essentially the same pick.
Why the would we help out the Lakers?
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