It’s pretty disheartening to cheer for smaller teams with the knowledge that organizations like the Lakers just get handed amazing players simply for being an LA and having history. Puts like 90% of teams at a huge disadvantage. You have to draft your franchise players and even then you need to build a great team around them before they get mad at not winning and leave for an LA or an NYC.
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I think the label for Doncic is a bit biased without allowing time for more info.
At the end of the day, Doncic is an injured and expiring free agent. There’s no guarantee the trading party resigns him.
To put another way…imagine if Luka signs with the Clippers in the off-season. Then who won the trade?
Must be nice to be a Lakers fan. Only had those scant few years when they didn’t have a superstar headliner. In the mid 90s when showtime was dying down before Shaq/Kobe. And the gap between Kobe and LeBron.
I don’t wanna pull bs conspiracy card but if the league is straight-up rigged then it feels like a waste of time investing yourself in teams. probably an indicator that I’m a little too emotionally invested in sports lol
As a Minnesotan, since the Lakers started in Minnesota, I’m claiming all those titles they won over on LA.
They were also gifted the pick used to select Magic because New Orleans Jazz signed Gail Goodrich as a free agent. ”When he signed with the Jazz in 1976, per league rules at the time, the Lakers were to receive compensation for losing a veteran free agent. The Lakers and Jazz agreed to send New Orleans’ regular first-round pick from the 1979 draft to Los Angeles (along with first-round picks in 1977 and 1978 and an additional second-round pick). When the Jazz finished the 1978–79 season with the worst record in the NBA, the Lakers were eligible for one of the top two picks of that draft.”
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It’s pretty disheartening to cheer for smaller teams with the knowledge that organizations like the Lakers just get handed amazing players simply for being an LA and having history. Puts like 90% of teams at a huge disadvantage. You have to draft your franchise players and even then you need to build a great team around them before they get mad at not winning and leave for an LA or an NYC.
* source: wiki
* tools: datawrapper, photopea
I think the label for Doncic is a bit biased without allowing time for more info.
At the end of the day, Doncic is an injured and expiring free agent. There’s no guarantee the trading party resigns him.
To put another way…imagine if Luka signs with the Clippers in the off-season. Then who won the trade?
Must be nice to be a Lakers fan. Only had those scant few years when they didn’t have a superstar headliner. In the mid 90s when showtime was dying down before Shaq/Kobe. And the gap between Kobe and LeBron.
I don’t wanna pull bs conspiracy card but if the league is straight-up rigged then it feels like a waste of time investing yourself in teams. probably an indicator that I’m a little too emotionally invested in sports lol
As a Minnesotan, since the Lakers started in Minnesota, I’m claiming all those titles they won over on LA.
They were also gifted the pick used to select Magic because New Orleans Jazz signed Gail Goodrich as a free agent. ”When he signed with the Jazz in 1976, per league rules at the time, the Lakers were to receive compensation for losing a veteran free agent. The Lakers and Jazz agreed to send New Orleans’ regular first-round pick from the 1979 draft to Los Angeles (along with first-round picks in 1977 and 1978 and an additional second-round pick). When the Jazz finished the 1978–79 season with the worst record in the NBA, the Lakers were eligible for one of the top two picks of that draft.”
What about the Van Exel/Divac Era?
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