Didn’t play that well tbh but a W is a W

The lakers never build through the draft lol

I don’t think it’s that we don’t..we just never had to..we had been good/consistent for so long till 7yrs ago when it blew up

How did we fail at rebuilding through the draft? We landed the following through the draft.

Brandon Ingram - An All Star and MIP winner
D'Angelo Russell - An All Star
Kuzma - A solid role player for a late 1st round pick
LonZo Ball - Solid PG who was a trade chip
Josh Hart - Great role player who was a trade chip
Larry Nance - A suitable 6th man in the NBA who landed a sizable contract for a late 1st round pick
Svi - A rotational player in the NBA in the second round
Jordan Clarkson - A solid 6th man in the league, who earned multiple contracts now
Randle - A true bum, but we got him to earn a nice contract lolol
Zubac - the starting center for the best team in the league

We currently now have THT, who was able to crack the rotation in the playoffs which is impressive for a second round pick. We used our assets to get us to where we landed now.

Clarkson and Nance allowed us to open cap room to sign LeBron

Ingram, Zo, and Hart allowed us to gain AD

D'Angelo trade allowed us to land LeBron

Svi and Zubac were sadly traded away for nothing.

Lakers scouting has been amazing. We could've drafted Okafor and we WOULD NOT be where we are now.

Woulda clamped tf outta dame and harden too lol

history in the making fellas 😭

5 more wins to go

Sadly D’Angelo only had to be traded away to rid of Mosgovs awful contract

Yeah, i didn't include that point. But it was a move to land a superstar, LeBron James.

Mozgov and Deng contracts would've expired this summer too.

We'll be paying Loul Deng $5million for the next 3 years instead.

But if the clippers won it all no one would be b****ing like that^^^

who the hell let Jaco in here

The Clippers did the same lol

Both teams have the advantage of location whereas smaller market teams have to depend on the draft and/or lucking out on under the radar players

They did the same, that’s my point. It’s bad because we did it.

Every successful team builds through free agency/making trades if they can.

It will be all worth it if we win it all this year

It’s very rare that a 100% (or close to it) organically built team wins a championship. The core of the team may have been drafted by the organization but there’s typically always a piece or two that were either traded for or signed via free agency

It blows my mind how people act surprised still that teams are built this way when it’s been the norm (at least for contending level teams) for decades

I wouldn’t say it’s bad since there’s not really anyway to make it fair and it’s been this way forever

But it’s egregious to say you built through the draft. You got AD because you got Bron and you got Bron because it’s Los Angeles. Sure you had some pieces which helped get him a year earlier than waiting for him to hit FA.

Building through free agency is different for smaller market teams and the Lakers/Clippers and other big markets lmao

Ofc there are outliers like the Knicks lol

S/o Rich Paul

I never thought I would ever say this in this lifetime or any other, but I am so incredibly happy for, and proud of, Dwight Howard

Speaking of..

We've now seen Orlando Dwight, Boston Rondo, and on defensive Miami LeBron

If we get past Denver it would be the perfect time for San Antonio Danny to make his appearance, even if just for a few games because that's all we would need.

Julio with great posts as always

NGL, might cry when we make it to the finals