Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax Machine LoudBooth Podcasts

It's Tough Being On Top, Everybody Wants To Prove Themselves Against You & You're Still Working To Be The Best Version Of Yourself Despite Being Atop The Mountain At That Particular Time... The Los Angeles Lakers, As One Of The Greatest Sports Teams Ever, Have Had To Learn That Lesson Again This Season In Some Rather Unfamiliar Circumstances For Everybody. If You Could Put LeBron James, Anthony Davis & Talen Horton-Tucker Aside And Somehow Get Off Of Everyone Else's Contracts To Actually Build A Team That Works In LA, Rob Pelinka Would Probably Do It In A Heartbeat. Yet You Can't Do That Due To A Myriad Of Reasons, The Biggest One Being That This Ain't Basketball GM Dawgie, The Lakers Would Do Well To Add A Good Young Guard Like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander As The Future Cornerstone Next To AD, While Also Getting LBJ A Guy Who He Can Win With Right Now.

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The NBA Created An Amazing System In The Draft Lottery, Where The Worst Teams In The League Are Rewarded With First Dibs On The Incoming Crop Of Young Talent... What The League Couldn't Predict Was The Ineptitude Of Some Teams As It Would Pertain To Player Scouting Leading Up To Said Draft, When You Have The 2nd Pick In Arguably The Greatest Ever Draft Class & Miss Out On Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony & Dwayne Wade Is A Crime Unto Itself (They Selected Darko Miličić After LeBron Went Second By The Way). The Detroit Pistons Have Had To Endure That L For A While Now & It's High Time They Begun To Look Beyond The Draft For Their Saving Grace... Jerami Grant Was Another Great Free-Agency Pick-Up Through A System They've Mastered Out In The Motor City - Throw Big Money At An Undervalued Guy & Turn Him Into A Trade Asset - This Time Around It's Happened Far Sooner Than Even They Would've Expected, With Saddiq Bey Also Breaking Out Into A Future Franchise Cornerstone, Allowing You To Do Some Pre-Free Agency Trades To Build Round This New Engine That You've Unearthed. The Eastern Conference Is Always Open Enough For A Team To Go From Atop Of The Draft Lottery To The 7-9 Spot In The Very Next Season, Something That The Pistons Would Certainly Love To See Happen To Their Team, Who Couldn't Seem To Get Right, Until Now.

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What Do You Give A Team That's Just Been On A Dynastic Half Decade Winning Run, Right As They Seem To Be Primed For The Inevitable Catastrophic Fall? How About 2 Seasons To Rehabilitate Your Fatigued Superstars, A Plethora Of Good Young Potential Role-Players To Develop & The Centrepiece That They Never Had At An Age Where They Can Mould Him Into The Teams Style Of Play... I Guess It Truly Is The Warrior's Way. This Is Like Tim Duncan Landing In San Antonio While The Admiral Is Still In Town & Able To Help The Big Fundamental Get Over The Hump To Go On And Build His Own Dynasty. It May Be The Perfect Time To Cash In On The Kansas Jayhawk Twins Andrew Wiggins & Kelly Oubre Twins To Allow The Youngers Like Jordan Poole, Nico Mannion & Eric Pascall To Play More In This Closing Period Down The Stretch... You Get Back Some Cap Flexibility For Next Season, Along With Some Draft Assets & An Increased Opportunity To See What Your Young Guys Can Do When It Really Matters Come Play-In Tournament / Playoff Time, Giving You All The Data You Need To Build Your Next Championship Winning Team & Go On Another Dynastic Run.

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It's Often Been Said That, "Man Makes Plans & God Laughs", Due To Man's Inability To See As God Sees... When The Minnesota Timberwolves Traded Away All-Star Franchise Cornerstone Kevin Love For Anthony Bennett & Andrew Wiggins, Two Consecutive Number 1 Pick Canadians, They Rightly Felt As If They Too Had A Future As Bright As Cleveland's With Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love & A Returning King LeBron James... Yeah, We All Know How This Movie Panned Out, But The T'Wolves Do Still Have The Editorial Rights To Correct This Narrative Before It's All Said And Done. Trading For D'Angelo Russell To Appease Karl-Anthony Towns Was A Great Call Buy The Team In Many Aspects, Yet The Reality Of D-Lo's Fragility / Shortcomings As A 1A Guy To A Growingly Unsettled (And Often Unavailable) KAT, Coupled In With The Rise Of Anthony Edwards As A Future Franchise Cornerstone Allows The Wolves Room To Entertain Deals Where They Move On From KAT Now & Get Back Young Players Who They Like, Before Rehabilitating D-Lo & Moving Him On For Whatever Asset You Can Get Back For Him... Essentially Writing An End To This Sorry Tale & Ushering In The Dawn Of A New Minnesota.

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When You've Blatantly Been Robbed Of Your Franchises Greatest Shot At Winning The Coveted NBA Title & Seeming Never Been Able To Get Right Since, Yet You Keep On Trying... You Deserve To Be Called The "Kings"! One Day The Sacramento Kings Will Get An Opportunity To Right Those Wrongs And I For One Pray That They Grab It With Both Hands & Feet. Even When They've Shot Themselves In The Foot By Not Building Around A Cornerstone Like DaMarcus Cousins When They Still Had Him, Lucking Out On A Transcendental Player Like De'Aaron Fox May Have Been Undeserved In The Eyes Of Many, Yet The Kings Now Have A Second Chance To Correct The Mistakes They Made During The Foundational Of Boogie's Stay In Sac-Town. Tyrese Halliburton Is The Perfect Complimentary Guard For Swipa Da Fox, Due To His 6'5 Frame & Off-Ball Upside, This Has Made Buddy Hield & His $ 24,4m Contract Rather Redundant For The Kings And They May Have To Give Up Their 1st Round Pick This Season (With Some Light Protections) To Get Off Of Hield's Albatross Contract & Get The Flexibility To Build Around Fox, Halliburton & Marvin Bagley III As Their Young Core Moving Forward, Due To Harrison Barnes Being Signed Through On $ 22,2m For The Next 3 Years (Which Is The Next Salary-Dump Deal They Will Have To Work Out Soon Enough).

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There Are Certain Franchises That Seem To Regularly Suffer The Ignominy Of Being Well Revered For Their Talent Scouting, Draft Selections & Personnel Development, While Also Being Largely Heralded As Perennial Underperformers When It Pertains To Actual Winning Off The Court. On Paper, The Orlando Magic Always Look Like A Decent 7-12 Team That Can Maybe Make The Playoffs One Season & Just Miss Out On The Big Dance In The Very Next Installment... They Have Some Very Nice Young Talent In Markelle Fultz, Jonathan Isaac & Mo Bamba, Yet They Still Lack A Designated Go-To Scorer Who Fits In With That Young Core To Build Upon Moving Forward. Nikola Vucevic Is Their Best Player & Biggest Trade Asset At The Moment, Cashing In On Him May Next Orlando A Young Scorer & Some Draft Assets For The Rebuild, While Moving An All-Star Level Performer Like Vucevic, Who Is Now 30, Into A Winning Situation After Having Seemingly Been On The Trade Block For Half Of His Career In Orlando.

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