Report: Lakers turned down trade offers from several teams before making prudent draft decision
Report: Lakers turned down trade offers from several teams before making prudent draft decision https://t.co/TAtsRGf64u
— Lakers Daily (@LakersDailyCom) June 23, 2023
by junahn
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Jesse must’ve really saw something in JHS. In Jesse We Trust!!!
Indiana was one of those teams FWIW per Chad Buchanan on Indy radio this morning.
https://twitter.com/alexgoldennba/status/1672255021059125248?s=46&t=qeINJxH8aBYuFjTIttnf2g
Keep our young core. The future lies in the hands of AR, Rui, Vando, Christie, JHS, Lewis, and Colin.
Without knowing what they turned down this is useless
Would help if we knew what these packages were that were turned down. Very curious
Teams probably tried to shaft us as they always do.
Lmao without knowing exactly what was offered and without knowing how Jalen HS will turnout, prematurely calling this a prudent decision is just a meaningless fluff piece.
I really like how the draft played out. We got a guard who can ACTUALLY THROW A FUCKING ENTRY PASS FOR ONCE, a living breathing bucket in Lewis with defensive upside (he’s been criticized for commitment on that end, which is exactly what every single one of our diamonds in the rough get criticized for before they get here), a big man who can pass like nobody’s business and has solid defensive potential (could be a better defensive version of Mason Plumlee), and a rim smashing dunker in Fudge.
JHS might not’ve been a sexy pick at 17 but he’s really solid.
Jovan Buha…
“After fielding calls and weighing potential trade offers with multiple teams, they ultimately valued the opportunity to select the guard out of Indiana University, who they had expected to go earlier in the draft,” Buha wrote. “He is their highest pick since they selected Lonzo Ball at No. 2 in 2017.”
This dude could straight up be replaced by AI and no one would notice.
Considering some of the trades that ‘fans’ want us to do with our picks, I’m glad the Lakers are being prudent
We won’t know how prudent it is until the season
Was trading the pick our best opportunity to build a championship roster? We don’t have the money for the top free agents.
#DEM KIDS BETTER PLAY HARD DEFENSE AND MAKE OPEN 3S… THATS IT
People on this sub are so obsessed with trading our already scarce assets away for a 2 year window. At least in the pre-Lebron era we had very high draft picks and assets to at least attract Lebron and trade for AD. It’s like y’all can’t realize that FA’s don’t come here when we’re shit and that a rebuilding process without any assets will be decade+ long.
I’m really glad we didn’t trade the picks
They was imposing them lakers tax. That’s why we turned it down
Jesse buss really wanted him. Wanted him over trading it so I gotta trust him