Hi, DJ!! It is not only you who is baffled. Count me as one of them. At this point, if no trade is made, I am ready to fold my arms and look forward to the offseason. Think about it for a second; we are exactly at the same point as last season at the 40-game mark (19-21). We are currently sitting at 19-21.

There’s this thing called a salary cap. When you make dumb move after dumb move, this is what you should expect from your team. When you pay 47mii to a 20 year vet who can’t carry your team, you need everything else to go perfectly, which it hasn’t. Don’t expect it to get any better as long as the Buss’ are running things.

Nice “0” not so much the “D.” We are winning though. Not sure what to think, no LBJ and AD playing so-so. Is that the key?

Second verse not as bad as the First. Herman & the Hermits.

Lakers just got lucky. Memphis might blow it up a little but we’ll see.

Hi, DJ. Thanks for bringing up the turnover issue. I didn’t realize Reddish had five turnovers. That was very uncharacteristic of him. I watched the game, but I don’t know how I missed that.

No. We are over the cap. We have to send out in salary as much as we take in for the most part. We in theory could sign someone for 4 mil.

Those teams are over BOTH luxury tax thresholds, which means they are paying $50M to $150M in taxes on top of those payrolls.

League also just added major competitive disadvantages that those teams will have such as no buyout candidate, sign-and-trades, etc. Lakers won’t pay those huge payrolls and taxes.

New rules have not stopped Warriors, Clippers, Bucks, and Suns though. But Lakers ain’t Yankees, Dave.

Lakers are a big market team that operates financially like a small market team.

I’m gonna say San Antonio & Golden State.

Overinvesting in depreciating assets to stay relevant. Not having the leadership to push back against the podunk markets creating a CBA directly targeting the Lakers ability to sign the top free agents. Whiffing on every draft pick – none of them total busts, but none of them that guy.

Maybe, I was talking the same idea at work but he’s a key aspect of them maybe getting cap relief next season since his whole deal is non guaranteed.

When you’re paying ultra-max money and not getting MVP play, this outcome is inevitable.

Never understood why that’s been the case. So frustrating, man.

They arrived in New Orleans at 3:20 am, the 2nd night of a hard fought back to back. back to back. For a 6pm game, missing 2 players and Rui goes down after 7 minutes. I don’t know what you expected but I didn’t have high hopes.