This Is Absurd

Evidently reputable journalists at BSPN now are required ro generate clickbait articles in order to keep their jobs? BTW BSPN isn’t a typo. I’m about 2 articles away from any fucking site from walking away for the summer because of how stupid and annoying all this has become. Let’s look……again……..at some what really are pretty simple facts.

1) LeBron has a No Trade clause. Meaning he will not go to a stripped down team with one other star and the last remianing MLE signed role-player. This was also implied in the Rich Paul press release. So for the love of fucking logic stop with any trades that have James end up in a city he won’t play in (any but San Fran, New York…not Brooklyn or LA). He is not going to Dallas. They are, at best, a year out from contending because of KI’s jnjury. Especially after they gut the roster which wouldn’t happen because of the optics of the Luka trade. Please, try and use basic logic, folks. Plus, any multi-player deal thatbbrings over 3-4 players would put the Lakers in a massive bind since our roster is already at 15. We can waive but one, solitary player with no penalties: Shake Milton. Everything else woukd require us to waive a player and take the cap hit. Not. Happening.

2) For like, the bajillionth time, the Lakers do not want to trade LeBron. “B-b-but they had a super secret than not secret at all meeting with Luka?!?!” Please. For one second I wish people would think. That dinner had to go down exactly like that. The Lakers are intentionally sending clear and vibrant signals that the top of the pecking order starts and ends with Luka. He did not ask to come here. He did not demand a trade. He was blind-sided and felt betrayed. The Lakers desperately need Luka to commit long term and they’re going to build trust by having him show up to a super secret but then not so secret dinner with the 41 year old face of the NBA and say “Heyyyyyy guy, you’re the man…he’s just here to pick the best bottle of grapes we’re sll gonna chug down. It’s cool, it’s alllllll coooooool”. That shit will not fly. Luka’s camp is looking for two things: winning and stability. So far everyone has said the right things but we all know what that amounts to in the world of pro sport.

3) This is all posturing. You know how I took the Rich Paul press release at first? Pro Forma, business as usual, standard operating procedure. Reading about some of the background now (LBJ not being consulted on the Williams trade, not being told of the sale, not getting an offer….even though he said from pretty mich the get-go he’d be picking upbthe option) it now reads like John Cusack holding a ghettoblaster over his head playing ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’. There is certainly a time limit on all of this and I, for one, applaud the Lakers for clearly stating their intentions of building around Luka. It sounds like, as akways, communication around certain issues could hsve been better but it’s also hard to argue that for the last few years the Lakers have willingly accomodated just about every single desire expressed by the James Camp. Now, they really have no choice but to start looking ahesd and they have done, with some big time Nico help, to be sure.

This is not necessarilly an ending, the Lakers are just making sure they have the strongest hand at the table next summer. A move on unexpected poise and power it reminds me of Dr. Buss who weathered more superstar tantrums than most teame dream of going through. LeBron may well retire a Laker if for no other reason than he has built a very comfortable life here in LA. While that may not be set in stone I ask you, what is?