The Lakers have been linked to Thunder guard Lu Dort as a potential trade target to pair with Luka Doncic
I’d take him partly for defense, but mostly for that he doesn’t injure Luka.
monkey paw curls, he injures Luka during practice
*Shai sends his regards*
Tell Luka, I want him to know it was me
“I banged my sister” –AR
Austin Rivers’ sister is married to Seth Curry mind you
Beard
I don’t think Dort is particularly bright but I wouldn’t call him a regard
No the paw curl would be cason wallace injuring luka
He is a pretty good Smart upgrade. But we’d still need more athletic type defenders.
Not an upgrade. We still need to keep Smart even if we get Dort. They can’t really play together but they give you 48 minutes of defensive guard play.
Yeah I would keep Smart if the price is right. I mean more an upgrade in slotting the roster, not necessarily Dort in, Smart out.
How was Smart last season? Still good on defense or he washed?
Smart played way beyond what ppl thought he had in the tank and moreso as the season went on and the playoffs.
He’s obviously not DPOY-level Smart. He’s a solid ground based defender. Still a good defensive playmaker and plays hard. But he’s definitely lost a step or two the last few seasons, but definitely not washed
Smart was really really solid in the playoffs
Honestly he was the same Marcus Smart that he always was, for better or for worse.
Has he ever injured anyone?
Paul George but it didnt look intentional
In Luka’s case, he just scraped off a certain amount of skin
Ja Morant
Is this the one where he jumps over Lu and lands awkwardly? Idk how any sane person would attribute it to Lu
Lu Dort himself said he apologized to Morant after the play so there’s clearly some attribution a sane person can make there.
That’s a good display of sportsmanship after inadvertent contact on a basketball play. Have y’all never played sports in your lives? You always apologize regardless of whether it’s your fault or not
I’m sorry I answered your question
You really didn’t, but appreciate the effort
Brandon Ingram
I must’ve missed this, can you provide a clip?
not the best quality
That doesn’t seem intentional at all
never said it was
edit- downvoted. I love reddit lol
(Lu)ka (Do)ncic. (Lu) (Do)rt. Both of the Lu Do’s can be on the same team.
the doodoos
Lulus doosdoos
Ludo 2 Ludo
Lu Do: Little Tokyo Drift
Lalilulelo
2 Lu 2 Do
And Deandre Anton makes us Delulu!
delulu dodo
They just need to get Do Do back, so they have LuDoDoDoLuDo
LuDos, truly the Lakers version of the Suns’ DB’s
There’s also a chef named Ludo here in LA - last name Lefebvre. I haven’t heard his name much lately but he was a pretty big deal for a while.
a Klutch move
Yeah and look up what Doncic has said about Dort’s defense and how highly he rates him, zero doubt he’s a key voice behind this. I’m not a Dort guy but of the teams he can legitimately help, Lakers are as high as anybody on that list
he’s gonna shoot 23% from three for us, I guarantee it.
He will be the 4th or 5th best player on the roster. So fuck that percentage and get Luka the needed help.
it was a joke about how players 3pt% always drop when they come to the lakers.
But no, 0.0 Value over replacement player Lou Dort wouldn’t be our 4th best player. LMFAO.
VORP is based on BPM, which is probably skewed bacause of OKC’s depth. Lu Dort is way better than a replacement level player
Luka, Ar, Bron, Rui, so who else is better than Dort? Smh
Marcus Smart
Yeah, debatable. I’d rather have Dort as it matches Luka’s timeline.
I’d take start on a BAE type contract over Dort on his more MLE+ tier contract.
We literally could use both.
People saw 50+ wins and us beating the rockets but didn’t see how dire are team was the whole year.
We got carried by the brilliance of Luka and AR, and then Bron down the stretch. We desperately just need as many NBA caliber players; Luka and Bron were kicking it out to Jake Laravia and Vando in the corners.
He doesn’t want Dort shutting him down. 😏
I’m so sick and tired of Klutch controlling our team
Based Lakers fan
We won 16 without them. We obviously don’t need them
Luka to Thunder for Dort?
Defense wins championships
No. Playing against DeAron Fox wins championships..
The best defense is De’Aaron Fox’s offense.
And Wemby’s fatigue level
It’s not really fair but the lakers know defense win championships. They will probably throw in a pick for dort as well.
The world would implode.
Bronny, THT & a FRP
THT ain’t even in the league anymore bro
Shump TT and nets pick, who says no??
Damn knowing that hurts even more.
Did you know JHS is not just out of the league, but straight up doesn’t play ball anymore? lol
Don’t do Talented Horton-Tucker like that
gonna have to sweeten the deal with sga, sorry
Very standard NBA rumor mill reporting.
Link a player to either the Lakers, Warriors or Knicks in order to generate some clicks or social media interactions.
No Miami and Dallas FA “destinations” smh. Agents arent like what they used to
He makes a lot of sense for us tho.
Yeah I feel like this is a very feasible move. Dort is probably at the top of the list for guys to cut with the thunders upcoming payroll issues and dort also fits the archetype you guys need. That said the dort / smart overlap is massive lol
Doesn’t really make sense for OKC idk why they would want to take any salary back at all.
If they’re losing Dort it makes more sense just to decline the club option. The whole point of this move would be to save money because Chet and J Dub extension kick in next season and SGA super max right afterwards.
It’s not like they’re gonna get anything good back. Like surely the Lakers wouldn’t be attaching a 1st in that trade.
Lakers can absorb most of dorts q18 mill. Maybe they add like DK so OKC only takes back 5 mill in salary but even that and like a swap or something is better than losing Dort for nothing
Sure but this one actually makes sense. OKC wants to shed salary to stay below the 2nd apron. Lakers have the ability most likely to take back cap space ina. Trade. they could also use multiple wing defenders so Dort makes sense
Seriously. There is nothing sourced. No actual fact finding. Literally just 3rd party “league observers” saying Dort “could be a target.” No different than reporting on posts from r/nbatradideas
Luka says he wants shooters and there are rumors to get him brickman of the year 2026
Magnificent.
Getting Dort doesn’t stop the Lakers from getting shooters.
It’s 17M less for a shooter
I mean they’re getting the King’s ransom in cap space back this year
and that’ll get quickly dried up based on all their fans saying “well you have to bring back Lebron” “you have to bring back Rui” “you have to bring back Smart”
Rui shot 44% from three in the regular season and 57% in the playoffs. Yeah they need to bring back Rui lol he’s their only shooter
You didn’t address my entire post
Yeah we definitely can’t use a defender, nope!
Lakers have lots of shooting, they need athletic defenders
So we’re just gonna hate the Lakers more than ever now?
This sub has so many Lakers fans. If Lu Dort goes to the Lakers, there are going to be a million upvoted posts about how he’s just misunderstood and was never actually that dirty. Or that it was the Thunders fault that he was dirty and now he’s a new man.
I’m glad we understand each other!
If the Jazz continue their 52 year streak of sucking, I’ll take it.
losing in the finals to the goat is sucking?
They never lost to lebron in the finals
lmao, oh no, a fan of the most privileged team in the league is talking shit.
rather be privileged than irrelevant
It’s true
eat shit sucka!
godspeed salute emoji
Lebron gonna lean on his ol buddy, cash considerations
Lu Dort as a laker will be allowed to stab someone on the court and he will shoot 26% from 3.
you see the vision
The center Luka is asking for
What would a Lakers deal even look like? Rui in a S&T? Would it really be worth it to make a team your competing against better by giving them a 3 point shooter? Yeah, they lose some defense with Dort but OKC is still stacked.
Assuming the Thunder are doing this for primarily financial reasons/Klutch maneuvering, it’d probably be Vanderbilt to a third team, and someone in the \(7-10M contract range from that third team back to the Thunder. The Lakers get an upgrade, the Thunder save \)60M in luxury tax, and the third team probably gets a couple of second round picks for absorbing salary.
Giving up Rui after this postseason would be wild as fuck
Oh no
I’ll take Rui
Doubtful Rui is leaving California and it’s East Asian/Japanese diaspora for Oklahoma. He is more likely to join another California team or a New York team.
Apparently everyone always thinks that and then he’s on your team and not that good.
What? He’s played for two teams (Wizards and Lakers) and I’m pretty sure he’s got the highest 3 pt % in the playoffs of any available player. He’s consistently showed up and showed out in the playoffs and is a good role player.
You just yapping to yap about something you don’t even know lmao. Glad y’all beat OKC, and was even happier to see *how* y’all lost the finals.
How’s any other part of his game other than scoring? I thought that’s what his issue was.
when yall got him the thought was he can be 3 and D, but my understanding is that didn’t work out.
Now he’s just a 3 point shooter which is the thing you’re referencing.
When he was with the wizards they thought he could develop an actual midrange game.
He was more known as a lethal mid range scorer in Washington, with the hopes (and awful comps) that he could develop into a Kawhi-esque player. However we as nba fans tend to compare like that far too often.
Now when you said “apparently everyone thought that then he’s on your team he’s not as good” what did you mean? He’s only ever been on 2 teams and he’s DRASTICALLY better in LA than he was in Washington. Truly what point were you trying to make? How’s him being a knockdown 3 pt shooter when the lights are brightest a knock on him?
That he’s a one dimensional player. Shooting is cool but only being good at one thing doesn’t make you a good player.
Even curry, who is elite at shooting, doesn’t just shoot 3s.
So you’ve wasted all this effort simply because you don’t like him? Your argument has changed with each comment big bro, we’re done here since you’re speaking from a place of personal bias and don’t know Rui’s game like you think you do lol.
Bing Bong fuck ya life.
Nah I just don’t think those players are that valuable/ contribute to winning.
He’s been on two teams for his career and both were happy to have him
??????
Wizards traded him for seconds after he never became what he was supposed to become.
I’ve heard lakers fans lament his rebounding and defense. He did learn to shoot with them tho.
Ehh, Rui is a pretty good player. If for some reason he lands to the Spurs, I won’t be mad.
Wouldn’t be mad, but don’t wanna give up the full ntmle for him. Would rather have other players. He’s just too one dimensional.
You dont know ball.
Watch him learn how to shoot 3s suddenly.
Don’t like.
Why give them More Assets make them Decline his team option and sign and free agency man. He not worth a 1st and the Lakers only have 1 2nd round pick
Make it so.
4d chess for the Lakers to lose so badly to the Thunder in the playoffs that they are willing to trade
Now that it’s offseason every available (and not available) player is now linked to the Lakers.
True. Every web site editor to every writer: “Let’s include the fact that the Lakers are interested. I don’t care whether it’s true or not. Then we include that in the headline and Boom!, the clicks go through the roof. Just watch.”
Perfect fit for Luka
Upgrade over Vando
I’m all for it. Add any player I hate to the Lakers, make it easy for me.
No thanks
Hilarious
between him and Markus Smart this Lakers team could not be more hatable
fake news
hell no
I always wanted to see that pairing on the Mavs, but that was the 40% 3P version of Dort. Perhaps he can become that again.
Dort would be perfect fit there but I don’t believe this story
He didn’t get an extension last summer and signed with Klutch afterwards. If he gets traded, the Lakers are an obvious spot to go to.
Eh, I’d be avoiding acquiring Lu Dort. $17M is fair value at best for him. Probably slightly overpaid. He’s an MLE guy. Giving up assets to acquire him isn’t wise.
Dort used to destroy Luka. If you can’t beat them…
Please dont put him next to luka
It’s a good move by LA. It takes so much pressure off of your bigs with a guy like that on the perimeter.
Lakers need bounce and quick players. Dort is just a younger and less effective version of Smart. At least Smart can do some stuff on offense other than spot up 3s.
It’s a terrible move.
This is certainly one way to protect Luka’s health.
Nice, I can continue to hate Dort just as much as I do right now
I know OKC fans wanted him outta there after this playoffs he was so bad.
He had a bad playoffs and year for sure. I want him to stay, but I also realize that we’re eventually going into the second apron, and it makes more sense to delay that by a year and part with Dort now
Fuck
Dort isn’t gonna get any more non-foul calls on the Lakers.
So he would be their PG defender?
Oh hell no
Don’t do jt
I think I’m high cuz I read that as Luka was traded for Lu Dort.
Lu Brick
Will be interesting to see what Thunder fans think of LU on another team lol. I will hate facing him.
This is a good strategy to keep Luka from being injured. I’d keep them on the same side in team practices as well, just to be on the safe side.
Luka tries to recruit anyone that could guard him well. Smart, Lu Dort and Brooks gave him most trouble.
First headline after a bad game
LU & LU LAY A LEMON
It’s a trap don’t do it. Fools gold.
Wow, between him and Marcus Smart they’ll have one of the dirtiest teams in the league. They’ll also probably set a league record for flopping
A 1 year rental and okc wants picks? No way lol. If they want to pick up the option for 1 year, they can have it and will test open market
Almost unplayable against the spurs, makes a lot of sense to move him cap wise.
Please no… I don’t want my least favorite player on my team.
dont worry bro, ill let Rob Pelinka know
Hey LowDot, Rob here. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll make sure to pass on Dort. Cheers!
We’ll take rui
Ew nah thanks they can keep Lu Dirt
No more luka getting injured against okc it would seem.
Eww no.. lmao..
Why give up assets for him? Just wait for Thunder to balk at the 2nd Apron.
For a vet min sure
say it aint so
Lu Do to Lu Do assist.
Um… Well fuck. I’m so sorry my glorious King Lebron James. But this is just too much to ask of me to root for
They shouldn’t trade w OKC for picking up his option. Especially if you have cap space. Let them scramble to try to get under the apron. No reason to give them an easy out + assets.
Lmao thunders looking to remove some of the hate
Lakers gone to be the worst major LA Sport team
Dodgers are defending champ going for the 3 peat and the Rams traded for Myles Garrett while Lakers best hope is an old ass LeBron
It is over for the Lakers as LA number 1 team
Luka: just get me guys who can shoot and a rim running big.
Lakers: Lu Dort?
So this is how we protect Luka’s kneecaps from Dort? I like it Rob lol
Lu dort taking out a player while Luka is yelling at a ref. Ayton spinning in a circle. LeBron dealing with old people maladies. Reaves traffic cone. Rui getting yelled at by JJ. Bronny with a 3 to cut the lead to 20.
Trade AR so we can get Dort and picks.
Dort with the Lakers whistle would just start clotheslining players like Bradshaw
Nah, he’s reason #1 i hate the thunder. I don’t want to watch him every game try and injure other people
Get ready to learn Dortanese, buddy
Don’t worry once he’s gone people will say all the same things about the thunder anyway. And he will get better PR on the lakers