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While at the baby shower yesterday they were showing the Lakers/Wolves game for some reason. I laughed at the guy with the Metallifuckinca shirt who was sitting in the first three rows. Every time they wanted to show the players they had to frame the shot just so in order to keep him from being in any static shots. Panning was fine I guess because it wasn't clear? lol
Could probably just take out the words may and have in the headline.
What was pretty obvious from the time that Windhorst published his article was that the information that he was publishing came from the Lakers, to try and save face. What would the Pelican's organization have to benefit from "destabilizing" the Lakers. It wasn't a good offer, because the Lakers organization is terrible. All the more reason it made almost no basketball sense for Lebron to go to LA. He's 34, they are YEARS away from winning without several Hail Mary's working. Everyone knew this except I guess the fragile egos of everyone involved.
The Lakers were desperate (though not desperate enough to go to 3 1's apparently) and the Pelican's were not. Dell Demps ironically handled the situation a lot better than the still employed other staff....
He made an awful decision to go to an awful franchise. Didn't make sense at the time because everything that's happened besides injuries were all obvious at the time.
Last night sure felt like he just made the shift from center of the basketball universe to an aging relic who will always get lots of attention but it's going to become less and less connected to the present and more and more an endless string of new milestones and career marks by an old guy on a 5 year retirement tour only relevant for historical reasons. I hope I'm wrong about that, but that's what it felt like to me.
It's really easy to imagine Lakers fans booing him on and off for the next 3+ years. Yet another reason going to LA was so dumb.
Inb4 the "should the Lakers trade Lebron" hot take immediately followed by the scorching, "would anybody even want him?" rejoinder.
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
He made an awful decision to go to an awful franchise. Didn't make sense at the time because everything that's happened besides injuries were all obvious at the time.
Last night sure felt like he just made the shift from center of the basketball universe to an aging relic who will always get lots of attention but it's going to become less and less connected to the present and more and more an endless string of new milestones and career marks by an old guy on a 5 year retirement tour only relevant for historical reasons. I hope I'm wrong about that, but that's what it felt like to me.
It's really easy to imagine Lakers fans booing him on and off for the next 3+ years. Yet another reason going to LA was so dumb.
Inb4 the "should the Lakers trade Lebron" hot take immediately followed by the scorching, "would anybody even want him?" rejoinder.
I don't know if I'd go that far, considering they were starting to play really well before his injury. I think that, his recovery from it, the weird roster, and the trade requests/rumors created the perfect storm.
It's also much harder to turn on "playoff mode" in the west.
It's also much harder to turn on "playoff mode" in the west.
I disagree with this. They've lost mostly to putrid teams in both the east and the west since then. I don't think conference has much to do with that. Conference is only relevant that it would be easier to be an 8 seed in the east than west this year but that's about it.
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
So dumb to go to the fanbase in the league that has the most reason to hate him because he's better than their beloved hero.
Maybe everything changes in the offseason and he gets a super team and wins again and lives happily ever after, but prisoner of the moment hot take: this was an all-time bad move.
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
He can't just quit either because of what it would do to his legacy narrative.
I think that stuff is kinda overblown. The damage of this season is going to be temporary. If a person says its about rings, they'll never call him the greatest. If somebody thinks he already is/will be if he plays another 3 healthy seasons and has the best collection of career stats then they'll think that regardless of this season. And if a person thinks that Kobe is better than him then they're an idiot. Everybody's priors are already really entrenched.
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
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