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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
Biyombo always comes to mind because I remember watching the Raptors in the playoffs that prior year. He wasn't great, but you could see his contribution. I remember thinking, "Some idiot is going to overpay for that insanely-small sample size and it's too bad because this Raptors team is kind of fun to watch."
With the Lakers, I knew it happened, but that's kind of what I expected, if that makes any sense.
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My memory was they made a hard play for Kawhi Leonard and maybe Paul George. And when those didn't land, they panicked.
And little Jimmy Buss was on a deadline imposed by Jeanie Buss and the rest of the Lakers ownership group to make the playoffs or get canned by, I think, 2018.
So yeah, EVERYONE knew he was about to do something stupid. And man oh man, did the Lakers ever shit the bed on that one. It was just a perfect storm that led to that disaster.