In fairness to Ayton, his coach isn’t spilling team secrets to the actual mob this year and the only obstruction he has to worry about when driving to the stadium is traffic. No icy roads in LA for our man from the Bahamas.

He’s in a perfect team to be in, a team full of playmakers and scorers that would get him some open and good looks to score.

i mean he always had the potential. the problem was the motivation and his mindset was probably: why would he risk getting injured for a team that was just tanking. As for the Suns, that run they had to the nba finals he played well. then he had issues with Monty, Cp3 and the FO (about his contract). I’m not defending him too, he’s paid to be a professional

just convince him that every years a contract year and he’ll be an all timer by the end of his career 👀

People are acting like Ayton’s only being paid 8m though. Ayton is still on his max contract, getting \(40m+ dollars this year, but Portland gave him \)33m+ CASH UP FRONT to play for us. Thanks Blazers! 🙏

Yes, a terrific value, but his salary is actually $8.1M

Yeah I’m shocked people were saying he was gonna be bad for the Lakers. Literally all he had to do was have a double double and provide decent rim protection and lob threat and he’d be everything the lakers were looking for. On a minimum no less. Like we’ve seen him average nearly 20 and 10 multiple times and the Lakers didn’t even need that level of output. 

kyrie gonna move to LA and get vaccinated

At one point CP3 got Ayton to give a shit and they made the finals. Ayton was seen as one of the top centers in the league at the time. Of course it didn’t last but I still remember it happening. 

It’s JJ man. Dude is a good coach. He talked about how he figured out how Ayton responds to positive reinforcement.

LeMotivator

It’s the more, we don’t need you to be a second star, we will not blame you for burning the world down if you have a bad game, and we’ll praise you if you have a good game.

With the suns this guy had to be an all star player (which he couldn’t consistently do), got crucified if he wasn’t, but when he was fantastic got zero of the praise

Luka also only has 1 tech this year. He bitches to the refs about 1/4th as much as he used to

LA will make Jalen Brown shave it all.

Let’s launch Kyrie into space to make it happen!

Make Jokic a Hollywood boy ;)

legendary pasta drop.

This ruined my morning

For a year at least, they are going to have to pay him next season

Good thing he went on Live TV with Shams to demand the Lakers get Center. It really did help.

People were overthinking it. Give Ayton the playmaking of Luka, AR and Bron, he will sleepwalk to 20 and 10

If he was in the east he would be. But you can’t argue with jokic sengun Wembanyama

Most definitely not.

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Thank you Magic u/heatfan

Nah. This is similar to our finals run year. When he’s locked in on a contact year he plays so hard. I hope he can keep this mentality for the rest of his career.

He’s shooting a higher percentage of his shots from 3-10 feet than Jokic (.364 vs. .347), and hitting them at a higher clip (.688 vs. .648)

lol