Kuminga is what everyone is saying about Jaylen Brown

Probably not, but he is younger than Yaxel Lendeborg by a month

I’ll let you know when he Kum

Agree! It’s the same Kuminga thinking he is an all star.

Got make moves this offseason so I get it. But yeah they’re never going to the finals with this team so at least make it entertaining

Seeing what transpired in Golden State with a vocal locker room that couldn’t make him understand his role. He could have been an important piece in Golden State if he accepted his role. Compare that if we were able to snag him from Atlanta with a bigger head. The concern is does he play team basketball over his ego.

You were literally stumping for him yesterday.

Letting Rui walk to do this is textbook bad GMing. I think he overpaid to get Kessler’s services. Some of the other guys are alright. But anyway, Luka can do a lot but this team is just not going to compete with San Antonio and OKC.

It makes sense if they want to lower Luka and reaves usage so they don’t get hurt like last year.

Pelinka hanging on so long is incredible. He should run for President after this. Dude is clearly a political shark. A terrible GM, unfortunately for Lakers fans. 

Won’t be surprised if Luka stay ringless with the iffy moves Rob Pelinka did.

I’m amazed he’s still the GM in big 2026. Apart from having LeBron and Luka fall in his lap he’s been entirely incompetent

We haven’t used up our draft picks, this is a common misconception. We can trade our swap draft picks the year of.

Lakers media bait catches another body

It was Vando + a 2032 FRP swap for Kuminga but wisely Onsi and crew don’t think that’s enough capital to take on Vando’s contract and have 16 people on the roster already, but Pelinka doesn’t have enough draft capital to add anything else to the deal beyond 2nds because he burned it all

There never was a deal like that reported? There was talk of a deal but nothing actually concrete.

Taking back Vanderbilt would put the Hawks at 17 guaranteed contracts and $1.9M into the luxury tax. 

They wont now cause apparently it’s not enough. They bettensign zaire and thybulle than spend everything on kuminga. They wont win title anyway this season so why bother spending that much on a locker room cancer

I wonder if Pelinka thinks this is his last stand. He’s mortgaging a lot of the future for a likely “good not great” roster.

The way I see it you kind of hope and dream on him as still having some star potential (reasonable or not) because Reeves, Doncic, Kessler by themselves don’t give you enough of that.

LOL!

yup i thought all those holding people back he was doing put him in everyone’s graces

they would be crazy to give up a 1st, vando sucks but its only 12mill per for 2 more years.

Yet people in here really thought that this 1 swap was still too high a price to pay for Kuminga, completely ignoring that Vando was in the deal, and no one in the league wants his contract. The entire time I’m sitting here thinking Atlanta was nuts if they accepted such a weak offer to eat Vanderbilt’s 2 year deal for only 1 measly swap.

That’s this sub though. Hate the Lakers and Pelinka even when it’s clear as day they’re coming out ahead in a deal

I think the hawks would rather have Turner

Myles Turner was a good, solid, playable rotation player

Because the Hawks don’t want Vando it’s Kumingas fault? 

It was definitely the Talen Horton Tucker contract, especially with Caruso leaving for a smaller contract the same year.

He gives player options to everyone. Thats why this team cant properly manage assets since they basically just leave the next year. Dumbass got lucky ayton opted in , otherwise, lakers would basically have no more assets left

To Shanghai?

You have to imagine he thinks Kuminga still is the guy he was coming out of the draft.

This is not about the hawks over valuing Kuminga. It’s about them not wanting Vando

Why does ayton to Dallas make more sense lol.