Pelinka finally pulled through

☝🏾What are the wizards cooking ☝🏾

Alex Sarr is there tho 🤔

They already have Sarr

“Hey thanks man.”

Thank God. I’m glad we have Ayton a chance, but I was not on board with giving him a second one.

Ayton: opts in

Lakers: opts out

If I could post images, I’d post the meme of the chin guy putting his hand on the guy’s shoulder.

We have Sarr bruv, this dude is a backup for the rest of his career

Bro I’m weak 😂😂😂

Or cooking up AD to GSW 🤔

sarr is their starting center

I’ll never forget the short period of time in which we had Boogie Cousins + AD. That was super fun.

I don’t think this will be as fun.

Eh with how hot Centers are right now this is a decent trade for Wiz? Plus Aytons a bonehead but for 8 mil you could do worse for a backup imo.

This place actually got me feeling bad for the crunklord.

Signed on for 8 million, started 72 regular season games, had a nice run before Luka’s injury, and made Sengun look like a bum. Yet Lakers fans on here acting like he’s the source of all their problems.

Cream Abdul Jabbar

Probably a fuckin Plumlee, there’s like 50 of them 

Probably that tall white cashier that works at whole foods down the street.

Mamu i’m guessing

Andre Drummond

the prodigal son of LA, Dwight Howard

Seems like this is a potential precursor move.

Salary dump Ayton to free up cap space (for Rui?)

Washington adds Ayton, maybe to provide a feasible center if they deal AD?

they want Poeltl?

Rob Pelinka is ethnically cleansing the Los Angeles Lakers

Neither is Hardy.

3 number one overall picks on the same team. Meanwhile the Pacers have never rostered a single number one pick on the team at any point.  

For 8 million, it could be a lot worse

This is not someone you want on your team man, trust me

Long as he ain’t trying to mentor anybody on that team

You will be soon

wouldn’t get too comfortable, he may end up being the starter

Domi-nation’s capital

This is gonna be your reaction for 60% of the games.

Biggest news of the offseason for sure 

It’s for cash. They’re trying to keep Rui.

We’re gonna dump Vando and Knecht and open up room to probably sign Rui or Kuminga

While they laugh, wizards make smart moves…

I think the thinking was that Ayton would NOT be happy playing backup in LA. He aint no Capella. Cost to Talent ratio remains very high.

I think 2 seconds and expiring for expiring is pretty on par for a player that would undoubtedly have locker room issues. They do have a hole at center now though

I’m legit excited for this. Hardy Party is back 😎

I did not expect a Hardy Party in 2026 but I’m fuckin’ here for it.

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Im seeing rumors they could waive hardy and make space to sign Rui

Lakers have no draft assets, so getting these two second round draft picks will be very helpful to get them off of Vando’s and Knecht’s contracts

We traded it to DC for a 3rd rounder

Waiving doesn’t take someone off your books unless they’re not guaranteed (no idea about Hardy)

My guess is they use the 2nds to dump Vando somewhere, then sign Rui (or maybe Kuminga)

Hardy shot 42% on 6 threes a night in Washington and is still relatively young

Would be a mistake not to atleast give him a few games playing alongside Luka

They should keep Hardy just for his laugh

“assets”

If you count Hardy and two seconds as “assets” then yes they did.

He’s a durable 7 footer who can play 30 minutes and get boards and score. Imperfect but a better backup than most every team.

I mean there’s like no other options lol, better than having Vuk as the backup

This is actually an incredible pickup. These center salaries and values with picks attached are going to astronomical levels right now. Getting Ayton on an expiring 8m to backup Sarr and compete with Okpara for minutes is not a bad deal.

He was pretty good for 8m especially if you compare him to sengun 

Ayton is not starting bro