Hot take.....Lebron won't win a single Championship in LA.
We'll see. Kawhi is likely coming next year. Gonna be a nightmare to match up with them.
If Kawhi is crippled, which I doubt, the Lakers will set their sets on somebody else. They're getting another max player; the only question is if it's Kawhi, or somebody else like Jimmy Butler.
Obviously they're not locks to win it all, or even favorites. They'll compete, though.
Kawhi (healthy) is on a different level than Butler. Lebron needs another alpha(wade,Kyrie) than somebody who needs set up (Love,Williams) to win a championship. He's amazing but can't do it himself especially at this stage in his career.
Butler is a pretty darn good player, and Ingram is shaping up to be as well. I have little doubt that the Lakers would have the best 2-4 trio in the NBA if that happened. As stated, the same is true if they sign a healthy Kawhi. Even signing Klay away from GS might be enough to make them the favorites.
LA is far from a lock, but it's an easy case to make that the Lakers are the second most likely team to win a ring in the next 4 years. It's almost impossible to make the case they're not top 5.
Hot take.....Lebron won't win a single Championship in LA.
Very hot take.
Bubble certainly helped them. Reduced schedule kept him fresher. I also didn't know Golden State was going to fall apart when I made that prediction.
I get it, WTS...it's tough being a Laker-hater. Perhaps you should stop criticizing the Lakers, though, because you've almost always been wrong in hindsight. Lakers were top from start to finish. There isn't any way around it.
As BC said in 2018, the Lakers were setting themselves up for this year. And they delivered.
Almost always wrong? Like I've been commenting in front of you about the Lakers for years or something? lol
Yes, you've made several comments over the past couple years. Lebron was never going to win in LA, AD wasn't enough without Kawhi, Celtics are better, etc.
Missing the playoffs. tsk tsk tsk
My prediction above likely would have been right had EVERYTHING not worked out for them that first season. Since then? First round playoff exit and missed playoffs. And rumors of LA moving on from Lebron and/or Davis.
According to those of you taking a victory lap, the Lakers were supposed to be dead for the next 20 years after the Kobe era. Call the Bubble Title what you want, but we all know IF your team had won it, you would be beating your chest, lol... LA will be fine. Players will always want to play in LA. Remember right before LBJ and AD signed up, everyone was predicting the demise of the Lakers. Will take some creative work by management, but we will be fine in due time....