Am I the only one that DOESN'T want to trade for Anthony Davis?

[greek laker]

if it takes more than 2 of Lonzo, Kyle, Brandon and more than one pick i say no.

[kwase]

If the Lakers gut their roster, in particular trading Kuzma and Zubac, to get AD they will be making a huge mistake. AD is a great player but he gets hurt a little too much for my liking. If you can get him as a FA that's another thing, but no way we win a championship with lebron and AD and no bench or supporting cast. We're turning into the Cavs that lebron claimed was "top heavy as bleep" because we're letting him be the GM the same way he was in Cleveland. We're turning into the circus act I knew we would when we signed him. We'd be better off trading lebron for AD straight up and going after Kawhi in the off season, but I don't think the Pels would even take lebron at 34. I just get the feeling this whole thing is not going to end well.

[greek laker]

in 2 years from now, we ll be watching last games of Lebrons carreer and 5-6
ex lakers blossom somewhere else.And i m not sure even if ww ll have our draft pick

[greek laker]

in 2 years from now, we ll be watching last games of Lebrons carreer and 5-6
ex lakers blossom somewhere else.And i m not sure even if we ll have our draft pick

[DShotMaker1824]

You know who I'd trade for him, but most people here wouldn't want that.

[strong9]

No gutting of the roster please.

[Dr. Laker]

Ship their asses out.
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[YSong]

[Baron Von Humongous]

[kwase]

[LakerLogic]

Also depends on how likely we get a FA, Maginka need to figure that out. If it's a no go, then you trade for AD keeping as many assets as you can. Then you sign a lower tier FA or 2.

[Baron Von Humongous]

[PengShow]

[kwase]

[paymonM]

It's never a good thing when your star player becomes a GM

[YSong]

[blackmamba08]

First of all I do not think he is top 5 player but that is not so important.

I would trade him for the right price and I would never give up BI, Lonzo and Kuz for him. No way. That is too much and not worthy. I would rather have these three than AD. The are combining 46,1p, 16,1rb, 10,9as. That is much more that AD can give you. I know its not maybe a good way to look at this situation like that but the price is just too high.

[lakersfan8]

I would trade after we sign a max player, sticking to our best case scenario.

Some people fall to the trap that this is young core VS AD without thinking the potential max free agent we could sign. So this is actually young core + max free agent VS AD + second tire free agents. There will be teams throwing max money to second tire free agents so we wouldn’t know which players are actually available.

The second trap people fall to is to think by trading for AD now we have less competition. Although Celtics can’t trade for AD right now, it doesn’t mean we are not competing with them. I am sure they would be generous and tell the Pelicans they would include every assets in the trade just to have the opportunity for a bidding war in summer.

[kwase]

[JIFISH]

Disclosure: I am not a Pelicans fan, and not that familiar with their players, including Anthony Davis. I am a Lakers fan, and more familiar with the players on our roster. That said, my only misgiving when the Lakers signed LBJ was that he has a history of remaking the teams he joins, and I liked the players and coach we had in place. I was assured at the time that he liked our young players very much and that gave me some piece of mind.
Silly me.
All I can say at this point is this whole thing reminds me of trading Eddie Jones for Glen Rice, which everyone at the time assured me was a great move, and many still think so. I liked Jones, never cared much for Rice, and I have found over the years that many times the best moves we have made are the ones we failed to make.
I really hope if Davis ever comes to the Lakers, it doesn't cost us all of the players I know, care about and root for.
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[LakerLand247]

[Sentient Meat]

Glen Rice from 3 pt 1997 47% FT% 86.7%
Glen Rice from 3 pt 1998 43.3% FT% 84.9%
TRADE
Glen Rice from 3 pt 1999 39.3% FT% 85.6%
Glen Rice from 3 pt 2000 36.7% FT% 87.4%

Eddie Jones from 3 pt 1997 39.1% FT% 81.9%
Eddie Jones from 3 pt 1998 38.9% FT% 76.5%
TRADE
Eddie Jones from 3 pt 1999 33.8% FT% 78.2%
Eddie Jones from 3 pt 2000 37.5% FT% 86.4%

I remember being excited about getting Glen Rice but I also remembered being disappointed with him later even though he helped us win a title. I think Shaq almost singlehandedly won it for us that year... both Glen and Kobe had kind of a mediocre final series.

We didn't have the same access to stats... at least I didn't know where to look back then other than reading the paper... but man how our standards have fallen.

We upgraded our "mediocre" young 39% 3 pt shooter for a veteran 43% shooter

Man what we wouldn't give for a 39% shooter right now.

But Eddie was having a slump that year after two all stars seasons so I get why we did it... even though I really liked Eddie.

Trading Eddie with Elden for Glen Rice made sense... Glen was probably a top ten player that season... best shooter in the league that previous season. But we didn't have to trade an entire core for him.

It was a reasonable trade.

I'm hoping Klutch doesn't force us into an unreasonable trade.

[troy]

[LakersInFour]

[Stumpy25]

Anyone who doesn't want AD, hasn't been here for the last 6 years. I guess the tank commanders want to keep their lg posting jobs.