Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[RasheedsBigWhiteSpot]

Exactly the role Kennard will have. He will replace Vincent in the rotation and will imho provide more than he did. But obviously this is not a move that makes Lakers much  more serious contender than they were before.

Lakers problem is not LeBron per se, it is the Luka-LeBron-Reaves trio. You can't have good defense with all three of them. Neither is a great catch and shoot player. Combined they will take roughly 60 shots per game, leaving only 20 or so for everyone else combined. Due to LeBron's age, he is the obvious odd man out and I will be really dissapointed if they resign him in the summer, even if it is for vet min. Pipedream would be a SnT to a team like Cleveland, hopefully for Allen. If he walks for nothing, I will not be dissapointed at all.

Even if they would want to, Lakers don't have the package to go after Giannis, as all they can offer is 3 FRPs and cap space. Even if that would be a good enough package, they would have extremely limited ability to put a team around the stars, so I hope they rather focus on players that fit Luka and Reaves. Lakers need a C, big wing and point of attack defender in the summer and they will have roughly 50 mil of cap space, 3 FRPs and Vando and Knecht salary to do it. My pipedream would be to pry away RFAs Eason and Watson from Houston and Denver, as they will both have problems paying them (or giving them a big enough role to justify their expected salary). If that doesn't work, they can resign Hachimura at PF and trade with remaining cap space (and 3 FRPs) for defensive wing. The problem will be, they also need to solve the center position.

You know this is a Mavs' board, right?

It's bad enough that we just had the postmortem of the Luka trade yesterday, but now you're repeatedly putting out long posts about what they're going to do with the assets they rightly shouldn't have. Just stop or post elsewhere.