[Evan Sidery]: The Pelicans are not expected to re-sign Jonas Valanciunas, per @MikeAScotto. New Orleans will be prioritizing floor-spacing around Zion Williamson this offseason. Valanciunas becomes one of the best available bigs in unrestricted free agency.
by vahnjay
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Would be a fantastic pick up
Most we can offer is TPMLE which is like ~$5M and I don’t know if we even have that. Seems out of our price range?
With what money yall? 😂😂😂
no monies for this guy
we get NOTHING, we LOSE, good day sir
We should sign him and trade if for wemby if this is the kind of rules we are playing by.
Hell yeah. Let’s offer him let’s seee uhhhh the vet minimum! /s
This is when Lebron has to look in the mirror and see if he wants another ring or more money we desperately need a good center and it’s not going to be cheap
Could you swap him for dlo?
I would love a true big man
We can get him. Just need to convince LeBron to take the vet minimum 😁
Guys we have no money. Rob and Jeanie have FUCKED this team. We will run it back and lose heavily again for a couple of years. That’s it.
Ok this is where lebron taking a paycut makes sense. Get us the ntmle and pray he takes it
We’re broke. No
Lets start a gofundme since Lakers don’t have cap room
In a league that will inevitably react to the Wolves winning with size, the market for JV will be more competitive than you think and very likely price the Lakers out. Unless he just happens to want to be a Laker which I doubt.
Don’t worry about not having money to get this guy, guys. He is no longer a great big man. This is much ado about nothing. Valanciunas has stretches where he can be excellent as a big man, but tbh he is definitely—visibly—getting older and gets injured all the time. Time continues to march on. Signing him to a multi year deal on the extremely small chance that he actually pulls through and plays well for us in the playoffs is a bad business move. If I’m Laker front office I consider this, sure because Valanciunas is a fine and quality NBA player, but at the end of the day I let it go. We need to focus on Lebron, AD, Austin Reaves and let everyone else go. We need athletic bigs and young athletic perimeter defenders who can sit down in the chair and lock in and run out on the break w Bron. Maybe one more shooter. We don’t need big fancy names or expensive dudes, we need quality athletes who defend that’s what best supports what Lebron and AD already bring and should be our brand of basketball w these two stars. Finding someone in the draft like a Jaime Jaquez Jr, a kid who stayed 4 years and is a legit conditioned and mature athlete ready to contribute during his rookie year not only in the regular season but also during a playoff run would also be a huge difference maker. This is the stuff Rob Pelinka and the front office should be focusing on but they’ll probably try to find some overrated past their prime player or role player who is unproven and who will not play well under the bright lights and pressure of being a Laker instead. 🤷♂️
Let dlo walk sign him
Better off just starting wood at C & using the mle on a wing
Tell him he can get a shoe deal without telling him he can get a shoe deal.
Have a full size poster in the office with you and just keep mentioning Taurean Prince.
I got about Tree fiddy
We don’t need to spend that much money for a big that isn’t defense first.
Only way we make our team better is through trades. We are losing Dlo and we won’t have any money to replace him.
