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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's EXACTLY his GM/Team build skills.
Well that and the personality in general.
But this is what you get when you get in bed with James. You get a guy who has no idea how to build a winning basketball team who insists on building said team.
Then he speaks and just makes things worse.
Deal him for some picks and start the rebuild. You're not winning anything this year or next so just pull the chute and start over.
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I'm sure LeBron would gladly take a trade at this point to get out from the disaster that he helped create, but the Lakers are never going to do that and go back to the irrelevant organization they were between Kobe's retirement (although it was really even before that because he played on some awful, awful teams in his last few years) and LeBron's signing that led to the championship.
They're effectively stuck with him for now and he's stuck with them for now. The best thing they can do at the moment is try to make it work again with LeBron. I just have no idea how they're going to do that next year, though, given that Westbrook (who is one of the worst players in the league) and AD (who can't apparently play more than 40 games a season and who doesn't seem to give a shit any longer even when he does) are getting paid nearly 90M combined.
Could you trade one of them? Both? I can't see any team being willing to take Westbrook in particular, but it has to be attempted. Even putting LeBron around a bunch of mediocre shooter/defender types like in Cleveland would be better team construction than what they've got right now.