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2024/2025 NBA Season Thread

Added to Calendar: 10-22-24

Name two franchises with more titles in the NBA than the Lakers. The Lakers don't do this career losing thing that most other franchises are comfortable with, so being on the Lakers means you always are expected to win a title. Other teams celebrate making the playoffs, but the Lakers only celebrate titles.

What young player derailed their career though? Outside of Rob Pelinka forcing the team to draft Hood-Scha-Not gonna work out here anymore, the Lakers draft well. Unfortunately for Ingram, Ball, Hart, and Clarkson, they weren't much help on a title contender when they got traded.

I miss all of those guys on the Lakers, but a title is a title, and the King didn't go to LA to tutor rookies not as good as the last one he had to put up with to win a title.

Oh, they draft well. Hell, they pick up good undrafted free agents too. But in recent years they don't develop their players. Maxwell Lewis is just one. JHS another. Scottie Pippen Jr. I would argue that Colin Castleton would have been further along somewhere else too. I even wonder if Max Christie wouldn't look much better somewhere else at this point.
 
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