The Lakers upside (2019-2025)

Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

1) Anthony Davis - is point AD possible? Does he stick with the Lakers past 2022?

2) DeMarcus Cousins - unlikely, but does he regain his All-NBA form the further he gets from his devestating achilles injury? And if he does, how quickly does he leave for more guaranteed money?

3) THT

4) The Lakers 2020, 2021, and 2023 1st round draft picks. Is there a future Tony Parker to be found?

5) Kyle Kuzma

6) Alex "The Pope" Caruso
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dcarter4kobe · Franchise Player Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 17674

Would love to add Christian Wood to the list. Norvell has potential to turn into a player also.

We need to hit on our next 2 1st round draft picks for sure.

Also will have cap to play with in 2021.
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Jesusdelonla · Franchise Player Joined: 24 Jan 2018 Posts: 15430

Avery Bradley is 3 months younger and should be there as well

unleasHell · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:43 pm Post subject:

Is there a point here?

Well, at least it wasn't a "POLL"...
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epak · Retired Number Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 34147

Upside your head thread

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governator · Retired Number Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 25076

AD-Kuzma core

Cook-Caruso hopefully get to D.Fish level role

Boogie... never know, if health is right, $ is right

Everybody else can be replaced in the future

SGV-Laker fan · Star Player Joined: 23 May 2013 Posts: 8860

one thing i've learned about this off season is all the planning can be thrown out of the window when players agree to play with each other on any team.

yinoma2001 · Retired Number Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 119487

Bear in mind also that the team that the Pels have will get very expensive soon.

Favors is an expiring deal.
BI will be a RFA next summer.

Will the Pels be heavy spenders if they have cap space?
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laker50 · Star Player Joined: 07 Mar 2014 Posts: 2140

The future of the Lakers is heavily dependent on the health of Lebron
James.
If Lebron remains and healthy and Lakers contend AD will sign for the max.
With AD another superstar will want to come to the Lakers.

So the Lakers must take steps to ensure the health of Lebron. And the first thing is cutting his regular season minutes.
And one step to that is finding a defensive SF that can give him time to rest.

The team has too many small PGs that will get eaten up on defense.
Bradley was a must get and may also be the difference to the season.

Wilkes52 · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:45 am Post subject:

Looking ahead more than a season now is one slippery proposition, more now than ever for clubs with top players under contract.

In the past year, I've seen a watershed change across the league in the power balance between clubs and the top players. Players have discovered that the rules against tampering don't apply to them. It's produced - so far - many clubs' inabilities (or lack of willingness) to force retention of top talent in the face of trade demands of their top players.

Seems a trend I expect to see increasingly strengthened until the next Bargaining Agreement is secured. The best players can act as essentially free agents every off season. They have proved they can force their way out of anywhere they don't want to be and clubs haven't developed a strategy to deal with that adequately except to comply.

That makes jawing about chances of the Laker club's future fortunes - especially looking more than a year away - kinda wasted breath. If indeed the Lakers hold contracts to two of the league's top ten players (the most likely and able to force their way out) , how do the Lakers assuage the desire of AD or LJ to move on, for example, to avoid the way Paul George moved on with so little notice and such recently contracted agreement. It's a new world. Every year is its own thing, more than ever.

I've started thinking that the Lakers can't avoid those problems, can't build a club that will stick together long at all. They're not alone in this regard, but we fans have to accept the perception the top player talent levels can pretty much force their way out whenever they please.
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LakerLogic · Franchise Player Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 17886

Need to get a young perimeter threat at some point, LBJ will have opt out and re-sign to a better contract.

Vancouver Fan · Franchise Player Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 17740

Our future aside from AD is wack.
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