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2 hours ago, ttitansfan4life said:

What the hell was Pelinka thinking giving KCP that contract?

Dude is absolutely garbage and offers nothing to this team.

LeBron's boy unfortunately.

Kawhi really hamstring y'all. Did great with the options left, but hindsight it would have been so much better to just build the bench from the start.

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3 hours ago, seminoles1 said:

Kawhi really hamstring y'all. Did great with the options left, but hindsight it would have been so much better to just build the bench from the start.

Realistically, could the Lakers have done much more without hampering their 2021 flexibility?

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5 hours ago, seminoles1 said:

I think so. Quite a few veterans went for reasonable 1 and 2 year deals.

Just going down the list of guys with the highest AAV that signed 1 or 2 year deals, it included (excluding RFAs):

Rudy Gay (2 years, $32M)
Marcus Morris (1 year, $15M)
Bobby Portis (1 year, $15M)
JJ Redick (2 years, $26.5M)
Trevor Ariza (2 years, $25M)
Taj Gibson (2 years, $20M)

Quite frankly, I'd take Danny Green over any of those guys.  Maybe you could make an argument for Trevor Ariza or JJ Redick, but Green is more valuable to me.  Personally, I'd consider the cost of KCP to be the cost of having LeBron.  If having KCP meant getting LeBron, I'm okay with that.  But if they could have moved on from him they could have had some solid depth pieces.  I just don't see anyone signing 1 or 2 year deals that would really change the Lakers' fortune.  I'd probably break down KCP into a couple of smaller pieces.
 

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