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It's sports, he realizes the impact that his decision made on his home state (by the way, he literally mentions Akron soooooo many more times than any other player in the league has ever mentioned theirs) and in a way, this situation works out perfectly. He is drafted by Ohio, spends a few years there and then realizes he can't win his championship there yet, leaves to go get his first championships, and comes back with an experience of winning and will end out his career giving his hometown what they've begged for decades for. LA has nothing to offer him besides a literally vacant roster and a promise of media that will over analyze every step you take and will directly terrorize your life if you don't succeed every single year (ask Dwight how that was).
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07-07-2013, 07:16 AM | #4 |
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Lebron has very low self esteem for a superstar. He won't want to finish his career with his hometown hating him. Or with people believing his legacy is linked to buying a championship. I wish the cavs could have won without him. But in spite of all he did, if he wins anything in Cleveland he will become immortalized.
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07-06-2013, 08:54 AM | #6 | |
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Lakers are going to have to get real lucky to get someone that's of star quality for Kobe to pass the torch to so to speak. I have no idea who it is, but I also didn't think Pau Gasol was anything but a pipe dream in 2007.
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That would be so sick! Undersized, but so talented that it doesn't matter.
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07-06-2013, 06:21 AM | #8 |
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I do enjoy the Lakers going in tge toilet. You don't have the logo around to fleece teams in trades.
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07-06-2013, 08:53 AM | #9 | |
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The toilet is likely going to be exactly where they were last year, when they had Howard, as a 7th or 8th seed. What trades did Logo fleece? Vlade at the time was a really good center when he was traded for Kobe. Eddie Jones/Elden Campbell for Glen Rice? I loved Rice, and while it was a necessary trade to get Kobe SG minutes, that's hardly a fleece job. Logo was great at his job though.
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07-06-2013, 10:02 AM | #10 |
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And the luxery tax for going over the cap has become cost prohibitive. The Lakers are going to have to change how they do things. They are still over the cap with the departure of Howard...
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I doubt very much they change how they do things from a money perspective. The brand brings in tons of money, the Time Warner deal brings in tons of money. The CBA has hurt them, but I'll wait to rush to judgement about how it will or won't hamper them until I see how things go next summer. In the end, the Lakers invested a broken Andrew Bynum, Josh McRoberts and a lottery protected 1 for Howard. It didn't work out but the damage isn't catastrophic.
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07-06-2013, 11:48 AM | #12 |
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Its not that big a deal for the Lakers. They will pay the luxury taxand were prepared to do it this year. They will get under next year clearing the the tax penalty. They just have to work the numbers a bit better when they get the penalty down from being over for so many years.
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So any word on where Bandon Jennings is going?
Lakers should maybe go after him...I don't follow NBA free agency that closely. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/85...ents-2013-2014
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07-06-2013, 08:48 AM | #14 | |
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He's really good, but I don't think he's max out good.
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07-06-2013, 07:53 AM | #15 |
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And people don't just want to tank for Wiggins. The top eight players in the next draft would probably have gone #1 in this draft.
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