Imagine you had a coworker who was decent at his job but not really what the team needs. Everybody knows he won’t be there long, but they wanna try to make the most of hi strengths while he’s there, encouraging him (crunk juice, etc).

Upper management realizes they have an (risky, but reasonable upside) opportunity to get off of him before he’s put into a situation that is objectively better for everyone involved but likely won’t go over well with him (becoming a 1st overall pick, who believes he’s a #1 overall pick but is now a backup center).

Worst case scenario you got 2 picks to try and fix some of your problems

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We've seen some brand new offense from the Lakers!

Through 4 preseason games we've seen plenty of familiar entry concepts from LA (Away, Delay, etc.).

Flare entries have been the new addition, flowing to a variety of P&R/DHO attacks.

Here's all LA showed in the 19 plays this was used so far!

Hope they do, it would be nice to see another dose of Kessler and checking out Sexton in the rotation. Sexton looked good in practice yesterday although did not see him in 5vs5.

Do not have much to say other than the fact that I am SO excited to finally have a legit, starting caliber center after seeing DA, Hayes, Koloko, Len, etc play after AD was traded

The Lakers, meanwhile, have been engaged in trade talks to try to get their roster down from 16 to 15 standard contracts and perhaps even acquire some additional frontcourt help in the process.

League sources say that the Lakers and Bucks have held exploratory trade discussions on a framework that would ship former first-round selection Dalton Knecht to Milwaukee (along with second-round draft capital) in exchange for big man Jericho Sims. Yet it must be said that I've also heard some pessimism from sources briefed on those talks that such a trade will actually go through.

The Lakers might be forced, if no deal materializes between now and Monday's deadline, to simply waive Knecht to get down to 15.

The above proposed Lakers/Bucks swap would have helped Milwaukee's own roster crunch. Sources say that the Bucks have weighed potential deals involving veterans Caris LeVert and Kevin Porter Jr., in addition to possible Sims trades, to avoid simply releasing players under contract.

The Bucks want to find a way to keep forward Pete Nance, sources say, but know they could lose him to another team if they decided to waive him in the hope of then signing him to a two-way contract.

https://marcstein.substack.com/p/the-nbas-latest-late-night-intel?r=1m9zg&utm_medium=ios

The Dodgers were swept 4-0 by the Brewers, meaning they can not three peat and that the Lakers will remain as the last team to do it. Hate that it had to be the fellow LA team but just shows how hard it is to three-peat in sports and that what the Lakers did from 2000-2002 was legendary and is not easily replicated.

When was the last time we had even a good preseason? 2020-21? Which was over 5 years ago? Can all the doomers chill out until the start of opening night? Remember, we basically have an entirely new team. So, I'm pretty sure we'll be just fine.

A lot of people saying he's a great candidate for 6thman of the year, but from seeing him play, he seems to be aiming a little higher than that.