Ogee Ogilthorpe
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This is more entertaining than the NBA playoffs to this point.
Even though I hate the Lakers and I've never been much of a LeBron fan, last fall I was actually looking forward to this; it's good for the NBA, I think, when the Lakers are good and relevant and LeBron waking them up would/could have been entertaining.
But here we are. Magic walks away from running the show. Luke Walton is probably the happiest guy on the west coast that he was let go and ended up in Sacramento with a decent roster.
Arguably the best candidate available, Monty Williams, chose to go to the horrendously crappy Phoenix Suns than take the Lakers gig. And now the presumed guy all along, Tyronn Lue, says thanks but no thanks.
LeBron stopped caring about basketball the minute the 2017-2018 season was in the books. He can't seem to say no to anybody in Hollywood that approaches him with a stupid idea for a business venture/project, and he's more interested in offering his political opinion than he is about playing meaningful minutes for the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant handled his business in LA brilliantly; he waited until his NBA career was over until he started his off-court projects and now those have been massively successful. LeBron? Not so much. LeBron will never be Michael Jordan, on or off the court, and that will haunt him until he hangs up the shoes.
Who are the Lakers going to get to take this gig when the presumption is that LeBron is running the franchise (and not very well apparently)? Would any max contract Free Agent go to the Lakers, and pay the gawdawful ridiculous California state tax, to play with a LeBron James that has little interest in basketball?
What a sh*tshow.
Even though I hate the Lakers and I've never been much of a LeBron fan, last fall I was actually looking forward to this; it's good for the NBA, I think, when the Lakers are good and relevant and LeBron waking them up would/could have been entertaining.
But here we are. Magic walks away from running the show. Luke Walton is probably the happiest guy on the west coast that he was let go and ended up in Sacramento with a decent roster.
Arguably the best candidate available, Monty Williams, chose to go to the horrendously crappy Phoenix Suns than take the Lakers gig. And now the presumed guy all along, Tyronn Lue, says thanks but no thanks.
LeBron stopped caring about basketball the minute the 2017-2018 season was in the books. He can't seem to say no to anybody in Hollywood that approaches him with a stupid idea for a business venture/project, and he's more interested in offering his political opinion than he is about playing meaningful minutes for the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant handled his business in LA brilliantly; he waited until his NBA career was over until he started his off-court projects and now those have been massively successful. LeBron? Not so much. LeBron will never be Michael Jordan, on or off the court, and that will haunt him until he hangs up the shoes.
Who are the Lakers going to get to take this gig when the presumption is that LeBron is running the franchise (and not very well apparently)? Would any max contract Free Agent go to the Lakers, and pay the gawdawful ridiculous California state tax, to play with a LeBron James that has little interest in basketball?
What a sh*tshow.