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3 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Wasn't Shaq a free agent?

Yes as noted flip Shaq w/ Kobe but yes this franchise is the luckiest of any franchise in pro sports in my lifetime.

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3 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Yes as noted flip Shaq w/ Kobe but yes this franchise is the luckiest of any franchise in pro sports in my lifetime.

An NBA player is the most marketable athlete in all of American professional sports.  They are naturally going to want to be with the most marketable franchise.  You've got to deliver on the court to reach those heights, but a star for the Lakers is going to earn more than a star for Orlando.

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17 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

An NBA player is the most marketable athlete in all of American professional sports.  They are naturally going to want to be with the most marketable franchise.  You've got to deliver on the court to reach those heights, but a star for the Lakers is going to earn more than a star for Orlando.

Which is why I don't think you can count Shaq.  He just did what was best for his brand at the time. 

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On 2/2/2025 at 1:50 PM, Kermit said:

Don’t forget alleged rapist and NowThis enthusiast Kobe’s bitch ass demands that landed him in LA. 

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Been to some Lakers games at the Staples Center.  They're not my favorite team but I'm a fan.
My best ever seats were three first-row, lower bowl courtside freebies when Tracy McGrady, Mutumbo and Yao Ming came to play against Kobe.

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Being so close was like being at the HEB center, sitting right behind the card tables.  
Jack was on the opposite side.  If you're paying, then always pay to be on Jack's side of the arena!

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18 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

Been to some Lakers games at the Staples Center.  They're not my favorite team but I'm a fan.
My best ever seats were three first-row, lower bowl courtside freebies when Tracy McGrady, Mutumbo and Yao Ming came to play against Kobe.

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Being so close was like being at the HEB center, sitting right behind the card tables.  
Jack was on the opposite side.  If you're paying, then always pay to be on Jack's side of the arena!

That's badass.

I went to one laker game there, got to hang in a suite, it was pretty dope.

Lakers were just the Kobe show at this point, changed his number to 24 that year.

 

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5 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

He's smiling now, Motherfuckers

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2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Fuck me I guess I’m a lakers fan for the foreseeable future 

I wish you both nothing but pain and misery for as long as you attempt to be Lakers "fans".

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Just now, ztejas said:

 

I wish you both nothing but pain and misery for as long as you attempt to be Lakers "fans".

Jokes on you I’m already a cowboys fan

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6 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Jokes on you I’m already a cowboys fan

No I actually hope that you go die in a hole with none of your family around to witness.

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I grew up in NOLA and was a New Orleans Jazz and Pete Maravich fan. Then the pussy asshole mormon Sam Battistone of Sambo's Restaurants moved the Jazz to Utah because he was offended by tits and booze.

I became a Laker fan with Magic. It's now 45 years later. That's insane.

I loved AD but for whatever reason, the Lakers couldn't compete with top Western Conference teams. I feel bad for Mavs fans that Cuban sold them out to that Vegas bitch and here we are. But damn, Rob Pelinka is a badass GM. I was worried how the trade would impact Austin Reaves, but they all showed out tonight. I also hated to see Knecht go, so I'm glad he's back. He was a steal in the draft last year. Maybe having remorse over moving Knecht was why they nixed the trade.

The floor spacing is off the charts now.

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Damnyourefuckingold

 

But the Jazz being in Utah instead of NOLA is one of the great travesties of modern history.

 

Even with some of the greatest NBA teams actually having come out of Utah/Jazz.

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On 2/22/2025 at 6:37 PM, NWAustinDude said:

I grew up in NOLA and was a New Orleans Jazz and Pete Maravich fan. Then the pussy asshole mormon Sam Battistone of Sambo's Restaurants moved the Jazz to Utah because he was offended by tits and booze.

I became a Laker fan with Magic. It's now 45 years later. That's insane.

I loved AD but for whatever reason, the Lakers couldn't compete with top Western Conference teams. I feel bad for Mavs fans that Cuban sold them out to that Vegas bitch and here we are. But damn, Rob Pelinka is a badass GM. I was worried how the trade would impact Austin Reaves, but they all showed out tonight. I also hated to see Knecht go, so I'm glad he's back. He was a steal in the draft last year. Maybe having remorse over moving Knecht was why they nixed the trade.

The floor spacing is off the charts now.

I’m not too far behind you. This is 38 years of being a fan of the Purple and Gold. I still have the Magic jersey I got back in 1988. He made me love the sport by how he orchestrated things and the joy he played with.

I was also glad to see Knecht back. The biggest puzzle piece is getting a serviceable starting center in the off-season that Luka will feel good throwing lobs to. He can do that with Hayes, but Hayes is not my idea of a starting center and probably no one else would think that either. Still this is a fun time to watch The Lakeshow. I’d love to stick to the JV team in the playoffs because of Ballmer running his mouth nonstop with nothing to show for it aside from a pretty cool arena it seems.

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On 2/2/2025 at 12:18 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Players stolen in modern times:

 

luka

 shaq

kareem

wilt 

gasol

Don't forget how they conveniently got another number 1 pick immediately after the Magic rookie season 

 

And Kobe they tampered their asses off to get him from Charlotte.   

 

Franchise needs to be banished

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13 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

Don't forget how they conveniently got another number 1 pick immediately after the Magic rookie season 

 

And Kobe they tampered their asses off to get him from Charlotte.   

 

Franchise needs to be banished

Yes, and MLB needs to banish the Yanks and NFL needs to banish the Boys. Jesus dude. 

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On 2/22/2025 at 11:08 PM, ATXbronco said:

Damnyourefuckingold

 

But the Jazz being in Utah instead of NOLA is one of the great travesties of modern history.

 

Even with some of the greatest NBA teams actually having come out of Utah/Jazz.

 

Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music..

 

 

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I can't believe I've never seen that movie.  The opening was great.
What's crazy is that much of it was meant to be "over the top" but was in fact, a reality in todays world.

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On 2/24/2025 at 4:12 AM, BurgleBro said:

Don't forget how they conveniently got another number 1 pick immediately after the Magic rookie season 

 

And Kobe they tampered their asses off to get him from Charlotte.   

 

Franchise needs to be banished

You can thank the Gail Goodrich trade and the insane arbitration and compensation for acquiring him as a quasi-free agent for the Magic Pick. 
 

The Worthy pick also belongs on the list for ridiculously lopsided trades. Ted Stepien might be the worst owner not named Donald Sterling in NBA history. 

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18 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

This team is so fun to watch between LeBron, Luka, and AR.

Luka going to get a triple-double by halftime. 

The Purple and Gold are fun again. We could not play like this with Street Clothes. Luka completely changes how everything works. 

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On 2/24/2025 at 8:12 AM, BurgleBro said:

Don't forget how they conveniently got another number 1 pick immediately after the Magic rookie season 

 

And Kobe they tampered their asses off to get him from Charlotte.   

 

Franchise needs to be banished

lol nobodies arguing the NBA isn’t rigged like pro wrestling. 
 

You forgot about the Cavs, who were rewarded for moving Bron to Miami by 3 picks #1 overall. A near impossibility statistically. 
 

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Draft Lottery and secured the No. 1 overall pick in three out of four years after LeBron James left for Miami in 2010. Those years were:

2011 (Kyrie Irving)

2013 (Anthony Bennett)

2014 (Andrew Wiggins)

 

To calculate the probability of this happening, we need to know their lottery odds each year. Here’s a breakdown:

1. 2011 Lottery Odds: The Cavs had two lottery picks (one via a trade with the Clippers). The pick from the Clippers had a 2.8% chance of winning, and that’s the pick that won.

2. 2013 Lottery Odds: The Cavs had a 15.6% chance of winning.

3. 2014 Lottery Odds: The Cavs had a 1.7% chance of winning.

 

Assuming independence between the lotteries, the probability of winning all three is:

0.00741%, which is about 1 in 13,500—an incredibly rare event!

 

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16 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

The Purple and Gold are fun again. We could not play like this with Street Clothes. Luka completely changes how everything works. 

Boston wins a chip then Lakers come back to relevance to challenge them. 

Great script

 

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Haters can hate the coups that Jerry West and Mitch Kupchak pulled off as GM's. But let's not forget 13 years ago the New Orleans Hornets failing at business, David Stern appointing himself defacto owner/GM, and then nixing the in-his-prime Chris Paul trade to play with Kobe.

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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I don't think this roster can win it all.  

I think they will make the finals.

LeBron has been playing with amazing energy, I hope they conserve him and Luka and just keep developing how they play as a team without wearing them down or getting them injured.

Healthy I think they gotta chance. They've got 3 guys that can hit spot up threes, Reaves, Finny-Smith, and Hachimura. Maybe Kleber too. These guys have length and can defend too, they've actually got some smart coaching defensively. 

 

They are about to play a stretch of playoff teams so I guess we'll see. 

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3 hours ago, Zeus said:

I think they will make the finals.

LeBron has been playing with amazing energy, I hope they conserve him and Luka and just keep developing how they play as a team without wearing them down or getting them injured.

Healthy I think they gotta chance. They've got 3 guys that can hit spot up threes, Reaves, Finny-Smith, and Hachimura. Maybe Kleber too. These guys have length and can defend too, they've actually got some smart coaching defensively. 

 

They are about to play a stretch of playoff teams so I guess we'll see. 

The glaring hole at center is a really, really big issue. Next year my expectations will be higher. This year what happens is fine. If they make a deep run in the postseason that’s awesome. If they don’t that’s okay because we have the best young player in the league on our team now.

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James' scoring average is going up this year, thanks to Luka getting so much attention.  

 

I don't think James will hand over the reigns [internally] this year.

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Was that a good game tonight on his 26th birthday against the JV? 
 

Also it warms my heart to see “Not Big Game” James put up a 5-22 and 1-10 from deep. Could not happen to a better person and franchise.

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