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Focus is the Price of Greatness... Too many potentially great people spread their focus across too many things. What you are willing to say NO to might just determine what says YES to you... #ThingsILearnedAlongTheWay #IsraelsKeys
Do you believe us now when we say this has always be racially motivated? Caitlin is a baller no doubt but there was always an agenda. And now the mask is slipping. To @RGIII and all the other brothas who allowed yourself be used... Do u see it now?
Honest take, @KingJames picked the #Lakers because he had control of the franchise for the most part during his tenure. Now he's upset because he doesn't have that control. I for one am done with the LeBron era. Time to move on #LakeShow
Those of us who bothered to think for 2 seconds saw this for what it was... Check my tweets for example. Y'all need to stop this foolishness
My understanding of it all is that the Lakers saw Lopez as a TPMLE player and he wanted more. So his camp used folks like me to frame the Lakers as a threat when they wanted Ayton the whole time.
Tmac was 19-31 in the post season. And played his first playoff minutes outside the first round in 2013 when he was way past his prime with the Spurs (he retired that same year). He didnt contribute meaningfully in that playoff run. I find it hard to credit him for failing in…
Why don’t y’all give James Harden the same respect you give TMac?
If Kobe had Chris Webber or Rasheed Wallace in their Primes, he'd probably have won 3 chips before the end of the 2004 season. See Shaq...? Hypothetical cut both ways... And if yiu think that's crazy, remember it took the Lakers 7 games to get past both the Blazers and Kings in…
Who's gonna tell him... ? 😏
What has this country become? Why are we protecting people who had anything to do what Epstein was responsible for?
I'm convinced many of the try-hards wailing about the Lakers FO are just doing it to milk engagements
The Lakers were the 3 seed in the West last season. They lost DFS, Markieff Morris, Jordan Goodwin, and Shake Milton. They added Deandre Ayton, Jake LaRavia, Marcus Smart and Adou Thiero. I think that’s easily a trade I make. The Lakers got better.
This is objectively asinine... Tmac is the the player who can be the most easily objectively compared to Kobe and he falls way short... IN EVERY aspect They came in at the same age 1 year (or 2 apart), played the same position and had large sections of their primes overlap.…
T Mac and Kobe had very similar careers tho
I agree... Just remember to be the kind of woman that kind of man is looking for ...
Marry a man who does nice things for you without asking. A man who studies you & pays attention to small details. A man who brings your feminine side, not your survival one. A man who can put his pride aside for you, handles your mood swings gently & healthily obsessed with you
Not sure who needs to hear this. But Andrew Wiggins is not discernably better than Rui Hachimura. Rui is one of the most underrated players in the league. Im not trading Rui for Wiggins except it's straight up for adding salary ballast and at worst a 2RP.
Vucecic and Jerami Grant... Neither guaranteed to be bought out. But these 2 would round out a PERFECT FA period for the Lakers (as buyouts not trades). Now if Dalton and Bronny become legit rotation players.. Watch out
Y'all told me we had 3 needs entering the off-season... Center - ✅️ Ayton PoA Defending Guard - ✅️ Smart 2x 3 &D Wings (after losing DFS) - ☑️ DeRavia, now one more needed All we need is one more wing and its been a near perfect FA period. I'd also love a backup big.…
Prime example of half of CC's fanbase... Completely clueless about basketball/WNBA. Just here for the identity shenanigans and toxic as nuclear waste
so the wnba finally got attention and decided to bench the reason people even started watching it lol
Add Kareem no lower than No 4 or 5, push everyone down. Swap Bird & Duncan. Then we can argue about the rest. Here's mine (remember we are talking greatest not best): 1. Bron 2. MJ 3. Kareem 4. Kobe 5. Magic 6. Duncan 7. Shaq 8. Bird 9. Hakeem 10. Debate NB: I don't ever…
Do you agree with Shaq?
She's less than halfway through her 2ND season... Allow this young lady time to grow! Last year you said she missed layups, lacked a handle and couldn't pass... She's pretty much fixed all 3. But now its a new narrative to tear her game down. Is it revolutionary to think that a…
She really need to start kicking out rebounds instead of forcing it 🤦♂️ Would lead to more assists and a better + or -
Bring me Beal, Smart and Vucevic off their buyouts (assuming all 3 get bought out). Trade for Wiggins without giving up the farm and then run me the following rotation. Luka Beal Wiggins Bron Ayton AR Smart Dalton Rui or Vando (depends who goes out in trade for Wiggins) Vuc…
Agree with everything except the last 2 sentences (I partially do). If he can get over himself, he's welcome to stay. But its so clear this is a powerplay that's not going to work cause for the first time in this marriage, Pelinka and Jeanie now have leverage and its called Luka
Honest take, @KingJames picked the #Lakers because he had control of the franchise for the most part during his tenure. Now he's upset because he doesn't have that control. I for one am done with the LeBron era. Time to move on #LakeShow
To everyone "Ayton fell into Pelinka's lap"... How exactly do you think it so happened that he work3d a buyout and gave back almost exactly as much money as we had left to pay him (after signing LaRavia)? I guess it was just ANOTHER coincidence 😏
Yup it's that time of the year where I have to call to order a player I've come to love and respect over the last decade. LeBron; you can't speak about it being important to have a chance to compete as a sword of Damacles over our heads as Laker Nation. I've always defended a…
Kobe fan who's extremely grateful for haven watched ALL of LeBrons career and his time in the Purp n Gol' He's been EVERYTHING we've asked and give EVERYTHING he had. Only issue I keep having with him is his borderline narcissistic insistence on being passive-aggressive every…