The Los Angeles Lakers have room for optimism coming off a 2023 Western Conference Finals berth thanks to LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The Lakers’ offseason rumors are swirling around, so we take a look at the perfect Lakers offseason plan! Who will the Lakers take with the No. 17 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft? Will Chris Paul join the Lakers in 2023 NBA Free Agency? Is Mo Bamba going to be healthy enough to back up Anthony Davis this year? All of those questions are answered by Marshall Green on today’s Lakers Report!
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Los Angeles Lakers perfect offseason plan:
Draft Impact player at No. 17
Upgrade at PG position
Add center depth
Retain Reaves & Hachimura
Find value vet min players
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5 players the Lakers could target in 2023 NBA free agency for the veteran minimum:
Dwight Howard
Danny Green
Jeff Green
DeMarcus Cousins
DeAndre Jordan
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5 players the Lakers could select in the 2023 NBA Draft with the No. 17 pick:
Jordan Hawkins (G, UCONN)
Dereck Lively II (C, DUKE)
Jalen Hood-Schifino (G, IND)
Nick Smith Jr. (G, ARK)
Jett Howard (G/F, MICH)
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My draft board in order is as follows: Bilal Coulibaly, Dereck Lively, Branden Podziemski, Kris Murray, Amari Bailey, Jaime Jaquez, and Drew Timme. That's covering both picks and any they may trade for
Finally lakers got smart ,getting Dwight Howard
Tray Young is a horrendous choice. A small guard on a max that has bad shooting percentages from 2 and 3. He can’t handle post season physicality
Keep Mobamba!
Likely the 2
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Cp3
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Dereck Lively is the right pick. Especially if you let Bamba walk.
No !! They have to do something that's going to win a championship. Kyrie Irving or bust you can't just tweak the roster you need a major move to get LeBron his 5th championship and the Lakers 18th or just blow it up
Get a Real Center and AD has to play the 4. He's too soft at Center. Add CP3
No CP3 He's too old over his prime he need a guy who's in his prime that can take over
Draft another big wing 3/4 type@ 17th pick keep Bamba @Center put A.D @ 4.. get D-Lo to take a pay cut he's not a 30 mil player and if not he's gone..that way you keep Dennis and everyone else like the Rui/ which limits Brons minutes. Lonnie/Ar-15 .. rotators Troy Brown.And Vanderbilt .. everyone else can go……
Gotta bring back Dwight Howard
If they don't trade Beasley, MoBomba, and that 17th pick or Christie, for Myles Turner, then sign Chris Paul for the Veteran Minium. They can afford that with resigning, Reeves, Rui, and Russell.
Resign Dlo, rui, Austin try to draft Hawkins or Buffkin
Jordan Hawkins at #17
CP3 is way too old we need to stay young!!!!
Please no Chris Paul
CP3
15 reaves is a can play on and off the ball and shoot and is agressive, gets his own shot and is young
Derrick rose get minimum?
The phoenix suns need to sign Dwight Howard @pheonixsunsnba
just AUSTIN REAVES!
I give up!! Dwight Howard and CP3? YIKES 😳 Why? There’s no other players available in the NBA? This team just refuses to develop and stay young! Stop recycling these old heads! Would these two be brought in for sentimental reasons because it can’t be to win a championship. Adding those two would put 4 players on the roster that will need load management to make it through a season.
Lebron
AD
Dwight
CP3
WOW the other players better be TOP NOTCH! What happened to development. Expand your minds and go after youth! PS: Keep in mind that this is the 2nd time Dennis S has CHOKED in the post season. The first was in the Suns series were he scored ZERO points when needed the most. In this Denver series he had 1 game where he scored 13pts. Any PG playing 30 minutes who can’t get you at least 10-15pts shouldn’t be a consideration including DLO!
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Forget Chris Paul he’s old and it’s more likely two of the 3 will get hurt there 2 old guys and AD who always hurt .. rather get a couple guys to add to retaining Reeves and Rui.. let’s sign Dwight As at worse a backup center .. pick up Beasleys option .. and use him and maybe that 2nd round pick as trade bait for a bench guy who can give us some shooting .. maybe even Seth curry or a Josh Richardson … then maybe trade the 17th pick for the nets 21st and 22nd throw in bamba or maybe even Beasley … then draft 2 guys who might not help now but can be part of this team 3-5 years from now .. need to start looking at the future … with that money re sign Schroder and try to get another defensive guard who can shoot .. maybe divincenzo or try to trade for Caruso … I also like trying to get Gary Trent Jr… if we can have a team like Schroder Reeves Lebron AD and let’s say a getable center like Nurkic to play alongside AD… that’s a decent starting 5.. bench would be a Divinenzo Max Christie , maybe Trent Jr Rui Vanderbilt and Dwight .. that’s a solid 5 plus those two picks to add and 2-3 vet minimum guys .. I think that team could be a top 3 west team what do
U guys think ??