I mean the Spurs just got really lucky with the lottery. Thats isnt a shot at their FO, but I can’t see how getting Wemby and then picking in the top of the draft in the preceding years doesnt lead to dominance.

Thats because those are the teams who got a bunch of picks from other teams going all in

The Lakers and the Heat and Nuggets went all in… and I’m like are you guys actually sure about this

A quarter of the picks got traded to OKC.

Lakers always trade their picks, because big FA and trade guys always want to go there

“many teams”

They can only trade every other thats why the swaps come in

I genuinely think the NBA might have to step in and change rules on how far out you can trade firsts

Sam Presti just fell to his knees in a Sprouts Farmers Market

Just takes a year of injuries (that happen a lot today) to have the opportunity, or having a peak year where your lineup has several players best season overlapping, one underpaid emerging talent etc.

Modern “dynasties” (idk if they are dynasties even) are very volatile and it doesn’t take too much to tear them down prematurely along with the current cap rules forcing great teams to pick between at least 2 good players when it’s about extending them past their rookie deals a lot of the time. Just needs a wrong decision here and there and suddenly the juggernaut is weak, it has happened a lot in the past decade and was straight up the “meta” in the 2020s so far.

So I think for teams having strong stars in their prime it’s as good a time as any to go for it because this era is driven by changing reigns of dominance and big shakeups among contenders. Plus good teams are more important than ever, so it’s not really like you must have an MVP level player, otherwise the LeBron’s and Curry’s and Tim Duncan’s and so on are just going to beat you in the post season. Idk I think it’s better than not doing shit and waiting for something to happen, time is very costly in the NBA. Still your prediction is def correct, but that’s just the case for any team doing anything in this league to some degree as well.

This has been the case since the 1970s? Almost every champion has had at least one top 50-75 player since then except the 1979 Seattle SuperSonics (Dennis Johnson) and 2004 Detroit Pistons (Billups and Wallace). That isn’t anything new. At the very least it’s been true since 1983 76ers (Moses Malone and Julius Erving)…

Tres Leches

Mods have been super touchy with making posts about the lakers white guys.

That’s fine because they won. Their gamble paid off.

The starting lineup is also much more balanced talent-wise and role-wise (and they eventually shored up the bench too)

You always have something to say about the Knicks, and furthermore it doesn’t matter what happens with those picks or contracts because it all paid off. 1% commenter yet you know nothing

Adam will find a way

Adam Silver won’t let his precious market suffer.

Shell companies (cough-Aspiration-cough) will help out.

They’ll somehow trade Reaves to Sacramento in a three way deal that sends Wemby to Los Angeles.

Cap space is a state of mind man. There’s always opportunities to create some later on if you really need it.

Those player options are going to hit like bleach

What is this Kelly Oubre slander!?

Kidding, yea its tough out there.lol

also see r / AtlantaHawks

This sub is outrageous with it. They’d much rather tank and be ass to get picks than even try making the playoffs. It’s so dumb

Funniest shit is the narrative would still be how we’re doing nothing with Luka if we sat back and did nothing, or signed LeBron. You can never win here

I think people on reddit overvalue picks

Exactly how I feel reading all these comments about how the Raptors got fleeced and people freaking out over some picks in 3-7 years. Kinda blows my mind how willing some fans are for their team to remain stagnant and mediocre for years in the hopes of MAYBE landing a top draft pick.

There was at least 1 team that thought Kessler at $32 was worth a haul. Maybe someone else might also think so in a couple years.

Trading 1-2 years of rebuilding for 1-2 years of floundering lol.

They have like a 60% chance to get some random huge signing during that time anyway.

It’s really not. Reaves was ranked as the 30th best player in the NBA, and we made him the 35th highest paid player.

It’s the Laker player classic. All their player are seen as either the second coming of Jesus or trash players that don’t belong in the league

Tbh I think teams could talk themselves into it being a neutral value asset. Dude’s a good player, just way overpaid.

My thinking was their plan was to use that AR deal as main salary to trade for a superstar next offseason, with picks making up the main value. That… Isn’t an option anymore.

That’s…exactly what the comment you’re replying to is saying. We obviously have a huge gap at wings.

127 games between spurs core players last year

Blow it up!!!! It’s over!!!!

We never had the assets because we were meant to be rebuilding and suddenly got Luka.

We have a core now. At least we believe to have. If Reaves and Luka don’t work better this season, we can still try to trade Reaves as long as his regular season performance doesn’t fall off.

Don’t know what being a sixers fan has to do with the lakers speed running a luka trade request

Lol 3 hours later how we feeling about that

Tf does him being a sixers fan have to do with the lakers fucking themselves

When is Luka ever not limping though?

This and the raptors trading for kawhi seem like desperate GMs looking out for their own interests instead of long term future. This might be the key to being a good GM, just find out who the desperate people are and take all their picks.