My little purple and gold heart will be crushed tomorrow morning when I watch the highlights after a night shift.
Ngl, I shouldn't be mad for how we ended this season considering we weren't projected to even make the Play-In tournament let alone Playoffs.
Considering the Lakers were still around the 9th - 13th Seed even before the Westbrook Trade + an incredibly weak West (4th Seed to 11th Seed were all within 3-4 games leading up to the final regular season played), they were never completely out of making the playoffs or play-ins especially since they never slipped 10 games below .500. A semi-healthy AD helped out a lot during the final stretch of their regular season as well.
I'd keep D'Angelo Russell if I was them just for stability in the regular season (they made the trade moreso for Vanderbilt) but they aka LeGM will probably try to go after Kyrie which means he will get abandoned + replaced by Kyrie for a 2nd time lol (2019 offseason when he was sent to GS via sign-and-trade from the Nets for KD)
also Reaves will command a lot of money + interest, the Lakers will only have so much to offer before they will have to part ways with him in FA
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Getting clamped as a Player AND as a Coach...
OUCH