As soon as once more, the Los Angeles Lakers entered the offseason with excessive aspirations.
And, as soon as once more, they may find yourself empty-handed.
The phrase across the league was that LeBron James was even keen to take a pay minimize to get extra stars to Southern California, however most of them both didn’t get the memo or didn’t care about it.
James wound up taking a two-year, most contract extension, thus hampering Rob Pelinka’s skill to land any big-name participant that would’ve nonetheless been out there.
Nonetheless, that shouldn’t make a lot of a distinction, claims Zach Lowe.
Speaking on ESPN’s Get Up, Lowe argued that there wasn’t a single transfer Pelinka and the Lakers may realistically make to shut the hole between them and different contenders.
“They are a good workforce within the Western Convention. … There is a huge hole between a great workforce and a terrific workforce and I am unsure how they will shut it.”
—@ZachLowe_NBA on the Lakers 👀 pic.twitter.com/FoXO4tiYeu
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) July 4, 2024
Per Lowe, the Lakers have been chasing their tail ever since they traded their championship-caliber supporting forged and let Alex Caruso stroll to commerce for Russell Westbrook.
And whereas they’ve achieved a strong job of turning into a great workforce, which isn’t simple to do within the Western Convention, being simply ‘good’ isn’t sufficient to get the job achieved in such a stacked convention.
Lowe claimed that even when the Lakers land a possible future Corridor of Famer like DeMar DeRozan, that simply gained’t be sufficient.
Final season, LeBron admitted that they weren’t ok to win all of it, and this roster isn’t a lot totally different, so it didn’t make a lot sense to go away cash on the desk if he knew he wasn’t going to play for a championship anyway.
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