Terrible decisions Rob Pelinka has made since LeBron James chose to sign with the Lakers:

[elartman1973]

Terrible decisions Rob Pelinka has made since LeBron James chose to sign with the Lakers:

- A very public and failed pursuit of Dan Hurley

- Missing on Tyronn Lue because he refused to give him a fourth year on his contract

- Failure to trade for Kyrie Irving at the trade deadline

- Failure to land Kawhi Leonard in free agency, who then signed with the Clippers

- In 2018-2019 Pelinka surrounded the best player in the world (who had just dragged the Cavs to the NBA Finals) with a young Lonzo Ball (who had arguably the worst jump shot in the league), a young Brandon Ingram (who was a 67% free throw shooter at that time). And also signed a bunch misfits such as Lance Stephenson, Michael Beasley, and a washed Tyson Chandler.

- Couldn’t land Jimmy Butler in the same free agency as Kawhi

- Chose Talen Horton-Tucker over Alex Caruso in free agency, who was then later traded for Patrick Beverley

- Drafted Jalen Hood-Schifino

- Fired a championship coach in Frank Vogel

- Promised Andre Drummond that he’d start, then didn’t start him

- Let Malik Monk walk in free agency

- Let Rajon Rondo go, then signed him back 2 seasons later when he was significantly worse

- Let Dwight Howard go, then signed him back a season later when he was significantly worse

- Traded championship Center JaVale McGee to make room for the corpse of Marc Gasol

- Offered Dennis Schroder (the same player that went scoreless in an elimination against the Suns in 2021) $84 million

- Traded key championship pieces for Russell Westbrook who was taking up $48 million in cap space

- Chose Westbrook over DeMar DeRozan in free agency

- Signed a washed Carmelo Anthony who didn’t move the needle when it came to winning

- Signed Isiah Thomas to multiple 10-day contracts for no apparent reason

- Hiring Darvin Ham, who lost the locker room

- Put together a team in 2022-2023 with zero three-point shooting outside of Wayne Ellington and Melo when you had Westbrook and LeBron on the roster (two of the best paint drivers in league history)

- Signing Kent Bazemore and Trevor Ariza as rotation guys, who were unplayable

- Failed to trade D’Angelo Russell who has consistently shown he can’t show up in the playoffs and has one of the most tradeable contracts in the league

- Traded Danny Green and a first-round pick for Dennis Schroder, who left as a free agent

- Traded Ivica Zubac to the Clippers for basically nothing leading to Jerry West mocking the franchise

- Trading the 28th pick in 2020, that ended up as Jaden McDaniels

- Failure to pull the trigger on a deal for Myles Turner and Buddy Hield

- Didn’t make a move at the latest trade deadline because he wanted to have three first-round picks to use in a substantial deal this offseason, then proceeded to do nothing this offseason

- Failing to sign Klay Thompson in this free agency

- Failing to sign Jonas Valenciunas (who signed for less than your annual MLE amount)

- Made no attempt whatsoever to sign James Harden this offseason

- Gave unproven Max Christie $32 million

- Gave Maxwell Lewis a four-year guaranteed money contract for no apparent reason

- Signed Bronny James to a four-year guaranteed money deal

- Gave player options to D’Angelo Russell, Jaxson Hayes, Cam Reddish and Christian Wood, all whom picked up their option (for the league minimum by the way outside of DLo), handicapping your entire roster flexibility

- Failure to sign Buddy Hield this offseason, who was your former client when you were an agent

- Failure to sign Terry Stotts to your coaching staff three times

- Taking so long to build a coaching staff around J.J Redick that J.J doesn’t have the time to coach Summer League

Before you say he signed Anthony Davis which ultimately led to a championship, please remember this was the most obvious and necessary move in recent modern NBA history, with already having LeBron and Davis forcing his move to the Lakers as the only suitor he’d sign an extension with.

And before you say he signed LeBron, LeBron CHOSE to sign with the Lakers after months of speculation, and reports he was leaning there. The biggest influence in him landing in LA was actually Magic Johnson, not Pelinka.

So kobeunderballs is trying to bash the up and coming magic while his team is an complete shit show.

Very telling. He has no accountability and lives in fantasyland and delusional

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[kobeunderbite]

[elartman1973]

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Nobody country that bogus title.
They very next season more than proved how bogus it was.

Deflection noted.
Go ahead and make another thread about the magic.

Rent free

[kobeunderbite]

[elartman1973]

Deflecting over and over doesn't make it go away loser.
Lol at tge lakers. Turned to shit due to lebron...your hero.
Says a lot about you given all tge other losers you consider heros

[kobeunderbite]

[elartman1973]

Deflection #3.

Lakers have a real bright future...lolololololol

[thedangerouskitchen]

1) I'd say 90% of those boneheaded Lakers' moves were done with LeWannaBeGM's blessings.

2) As bad as the Lakers are/have been under LeFraud, the Magic are/have still been worse.

Real spit right there.

[elartman1973]

Magic >>>> Lakers
Now and for the foreseeable future.
Only losers with no future focus on and hype the past

[ElJorge]

1) I'd say 90% of those boneheaded Lakers' moves were done with LeWannaBeGM's blessings.

2) As bad as the Lakers are/have been under LeFraud, the Magic are/have still been worse.

Real spit right there.

Bulls have been the worst out of those three though.

[thedangerouskitchen]

The Lakers' 2020 Championship was not "bogus" per se, but it was, withOut a shadow of a doubt, THE weakest Championship won in NBA history bar none... even weaker than the 2024 Celtics, 2023 Nuggets, and a few of those 50's/60's Celtics' seasons.

Imagine Playoff and Finals basketball with cardboard-cutout pictures of fans in the audience, and piped-in cheering/booing blasting from the arena speakers... the PRESSURE must have been unrivaled.

[thedangerouskitchen]

1) I'd say 90% of those boneheaded Lakers' moves were done with LeWannaBeGM's blessings.

2) As bad as the Lakers are/have been under LeFraud, the Magic are/have still been worse.

Real spit right there.

Bulls have been the worst out of those three though.

Perhaps, but I haven't watched the NBA / Bulls since I boycotted the sport during the 2019-20 season, so the Bulls' success/failures during that time don't really matter to me.

[ElJorge]

1) I'd say 90% of those boneheaded Lakers' moves were done with LeWannaBeGM's blessings.

2) As bad as the Lakers are/have been under LeFraud, the Magic are/have still been worse.

Real spit right there.

Bulls have been the worst out of those three though.

Perhaps

They’ve only been over .500 once in the last 8 seasons.

[elartman1973]

Every free agent has rejected the lakers and taken less money elsewhere.

Nobody wants to play for them. That time is long gone

[elartman1973]

Magic have been by far superior to the bulls since 1998

[ElJorge]

Every free agent has rejected the lakers and taken less money elsewhere.

Nobody wants to play for them. That time is long gone

Do you purposely say incorrect things so someone will twist your titties around?

[elartman1973]

Every free agent has rejected the lakers and taken less money elsewhere.

Nobody wants to play for them. That time is long gone

Do you purposely say incorrect things so someone will twist your titties around?

Derozen, CP3, Klay, Kawhi and others ALL turned down the lakers.

Nothing incorrect

[ElJorge]

Every free agent has rejected the lakers and taken less money elsewhere.

Nobody wants to play for them. That time is long gone

Do you purposely say incorrect things so someone will twist your titties around?

Derozen, CP3, Klay, Kawhi and others ALL turned down the lakers.

Nothing incorrect

100% incorrect

Only recent player was Klay. Lakers weren’t about to overpay for DeRozan lol. CP3? Where would the Lakers even get the cap space to sign him? We’re already right at the second apron. Zero cap room to do anything other than a sign & trade.

And Kawhi was back in 2019 so who even cares? Poor guys knees are ready to explode at any time. He makes Issacs look healthy.

[elartman1973]

Do you purposely say incorrect things so someone will twist your titties around?

Derozen, CP3, Klay, Kawhi and others ALL turned down the lakers.

Nothing incorrect

100% incorrect

Only recent player was Klay. Lakers weren’t about to overpay for DeRozan lol. CP3? Where would the Lakers even get the cap space to sign him? We’re already right at the second apron. Zero cap room to do anything other than a sign & trade.

And Kawhi was back in 2019 so who even cares? Poor guys knees are ready to explode at any time. He makes Issacs look healthy.

No. This summer. All rejected lebron despite him personally calling and taking a paycut.
Now lakers trying to trade players...kuzma is the goal

[ElJorge]

Derozen, CP3, Klay, Kawhi and others ALL turned down the lakers.

Nothing incorrect

100% incorrect

Only recent player was Klay. Lakers weren’t about to overpay for DeRozan lol. CP3? Where would the Lakers even get the cap space to sign him? We’re already right at the second apron. Zero cap room to do anything other than a sign & trade.

And Kawhi was back in 2019 so who even cares? Poor guys knees are ready to explode at any time. He makes Issacs look healthy.

No. This summer. All rejected lebron despite him personally calling and taking a paycut.
Now lakers trying to trade players...kuzma is the goal

He said he’d take a paycut for Klay or a “high impact player”. Who else was there? James “washed up” Harden? Most of those signs & trades would’ve required sending players out coupled with picks. Not worth it for a 34 year old Harden or a 35 year old DeRozan.

The Magic literally did what the Lakers did lol… just resigned a bunch of players already on the team. Although you did overpay for KCP