JJ Redick hired as new coach. Lebron got his yes man.
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mjsuax13Moderator
- 03-14-15
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#1Lakers LOLTags: None -
Eddy MunnySBR Posting Legend
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#2You gotta watch Redick's pod when he features LeBron. They're both really sharp basketball minds with a deep mutual respect. I don't think J.J. is signing up to be a puppet... LeBron will obviously have his input and be the floor general, but he trusts J.J. to steer the ship as far as I can tell.Comment -
stevenashModerator
- 01-17-11
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#3JJ needs a close to a 100 percent AD all season or he's going to be the captain of a sinking ship.
LAL needs to make a serious play for Trae Young.
Reeves is OK but the rest of the guards are rubbish.Comment -
HeadsterxSBR Posting Legend
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#4This will end up bad for everyone except for Clippers, Suns, Kings, and Warriors.
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JIBBBYSBR Aristocracy
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#5A coach isn't gonna help this Laker team. They need player changes.Comment -
asiagamblerSBR Hall of Famer
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#6This is as close as they can get to making Lebron a player-coach so in that sense it's a good hire. But also not sure if he's Davis' guy after Redick left him off the All-defensive team completely but also I would assume he had to sign off on it too to a certain extentComment -
mjsuax13Moderator
- 03-14-15
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#7You gotta watch Redick's pod when he features LeBron. They're both really sharp basketball minds with a deep mutual respect. I don't think J.J. is signing up to be a puppet... LeBron will obviously have his input and be the floor general, but he trusts J.J. to steer the ship as far as I can tell.Comment -
bigtymer56SBR MVP
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#8You gotta watch Redick's pod when he features LeBron. They're both really sharp basketball minds with a deep mutual respect. I don't think J.J. is signing up to be a puppet... LeBron will obviously have his input and be the floor general, but he trusts J.J. to steer the ship as far as I can tell.
This is great for Lebron. Who cares if the team wins. He gets to be the player coach and have fun in the twilight of his career.
Goodluck to JJ. If he's lucky, Lebron will retire before they can fire him.Comment -
INVEGA MANSBR Hall of Famer
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#10LAL just drafted the great Bronny James!!Comment -
19th HoleSBR Posting Legend
- 03-22-09
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#11
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LAKERS TAKE BRONNY JAMES AT NO. 55 IN THE 2024 DRAFT <br><br>Welcome to the league <br><br>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sham sCharania</a>) <a href="https://t.co/nW3kwRZNV7">pic.twitter.com/nW3kwRZNV7</a></p>— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1806448943934681268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >June 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
SomeDayinBuffaloSBR MVP
- 08-12-11
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#12JJ can't make this team into a champion. No coach can. AD will not be heathy two seasons in a row. With AD you just hope his feeling don't get hurt. Ham did a umber on him.Comment -
DrunkHorseplayerSBR Hall of Famer
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#13Here comes the dog and pony show, Bronny will probably play several games with pops then get cut or retire.Comment -
Tammy_GAdministrator
- 10-26-22
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#14I wonder what kind of dynamic that will bring to the team and the locker room - a father/son combo is kind of wild, but for it to be Lebron James' son to boot? Plus the pressure of everyone expecting to live up to your dad's performance... should be interesting, to say the least. I think there's no way Lebron will become a free agent after this.Comment -
19th HoleSBR Posting Legend
- 03-22-09
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#15Valerie_G---
Thanks for your 1st post and welcome to SBR.
May your stay be rewarding.
Bronny is indeed in a precarious situation, but a situation
a million boys in America go to bed dreaming about.Comment -
Mac4LyfeSBR Aristocracy
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#16The Lakers played the Nuggets very well in the playoffs. I think they were leading in each game into the 4th quarter. Maybe Reddick can get them over the top. You never know in this league.Comment -
unde0087BARRELED IN @ SBR!
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#17Are the Lakers going to take LeBums wife in the next round so they can play as a family?Lakers will be a G league team by the time LeBum is done making the decisions. His son gets drafted and probably wouldn't start for any top 10 team in the NCAA.
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DrunkHorseplayerSBR Hall of Famer
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#18He'll play a few games just so the two can get in the history books then he'll be gone.Comment -
pologqSBR Posting Legend
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#19lebron is a puppet master. this pick of his son proves it.
they still need a 3rd superstar.Comment -
ThaTopMoronBARRELED IN @ SBR!
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#21JJ sucks... he attended Duke
and he called me the N word so he shouldn't be allowed to coach in the NBAComment -
mjsuax13Moderator
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#22Lebron is the same guy that always belly aches about the less privileged getting more opportunities… and then the NEPO baby gets drafted. Fellas- he wasn’t even an impact player in college. Embarrassing.Comment -
stevenashModerator
- 01-17-11
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#23Lebron taught Jr. well, taking a page out of Eli Manning's playbook when he got drafted by San Diego.
In this instance, Bronny said that if any team outside of the Lakers drafts me, I'm playing in the Australian pro league"
When Eli demanded that he wouldn't play for the Chargers I said at the time "That's not a good look for him".
Same applies to Bronny.
I couldn't give two puppy farts that some consider the James family "basketball royalty" no kid fresh out of college entering the big time pay for play leagues needs to learn to stay on their lane, the owners call the shots, not some hot shot draftee who happens to have a last name of Manning or James.
Come to think about it, John Elway pulled the very same shit with the Baltimore Colts, who drafted him and said "Fu*k this, I'm going to Fort Lauderdale for spring training with the NY Yankees.
Looking back on it, Michael Jordan had more of a baseball skill set than Elway had, and that's not really saying all that much.
It was no secret that if you fed Jordan a steady diet of off-speed breaking balls, he wouldn't put the ball in play.
I detest these spoiled kids, I, and most of you that ever-played competitive sports didn't get anything handed to you, we had to break our balls with our play to get noticed by the coaches, I wasn't blessed with a last name like Elway or James or Manning, and I wouldn't trade my late, great father's name in for any of that anyway, and I'm serious as a heart attack when I say that.Comment -
mjsuax13Moderator
- 03-14-15
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#24Lebron taught Jr. well, taking a page out of Eli Manning's playbook when he got drafted by San Diego.
In this instance, Bronny said that if any team outside of the Lakers drafts me, I'm playing in the Australian pro league"
When Eli demanded that he wouldn't play for the Chargers I said at the time "That's not a good look for him".
Same applies to Bronny.
I couldn't give two puppy farts that some consider the James family "basketball royalty" no kid fresh out of college entering the big time pay for play leagues needs to learn to stay on their lane, the owners call the shots, not some hot shot draftee who happens to have a last name of Manning or James.
Come to think about it, John Elway pulled the very same shit with the Baltimore Colts, who drafted him and said "Fu*k this, I'm going to Fort Lauderdale for spring training with the NY Yankees.
Looking back on it, Michael Jordan had more of a baseball skill set than Elway had, and that's not really saying all that much.
It was no secret that if you fed Jordan a steady diet of off-speed breaking balls, he wouldn't put the ball in play.
I detest these spoiled kids, I, and most of you that ever-played competitive sports didn't get anything handed to you, we had to break our balls with our play to get noticed by the coaches, I wasn't blessed with a last name like Elway or James or Manning, and I wouldn't trade my late, great father's name in for any of that anyway, and I'm serious as a heart attack when I say that.
It’s really just another example of what the lakers have become… they are beyond delusional in their approach. They have simply become an entitled franchise with an entitled owner who then hired her friend as the GM. Jeannie Buss is a terrible owner and a nepo baby so she fits right in.
That same GM then loaded the roster up with a bunch of whiny guys that Lebron and Rich Paul pushed on them, they draft poorly, traded away assets and now are what they are. Oh wait, they will be coached by a guy with zero coaching experience who talked himself into the job on a podcast with their best player. You can’t make this shit up. I wish Bronny nothing but the best but realistically I’m not sure this is even good for his actual basketball career. He wasn’t even the best player on any of his high schools teams. This is the epitome of standing on third base and thinking you hit a triple.Comment -
stevenashModerator
- 01-17-11
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#25
I'm not wishing death on JJ by any means, for openers that's very bad karma to do so, I'm just trying to make a point as to how much a loose cannon Redick is.
Seems JJ is fond of throwing around this year's newest catch phrase "content engagement", which makes me cringe.
I'm going to apologize in advance if I come across like a blowhard when I say this, because my shit does indeed stink, I am hardly a know it all, what I know, I know, and what I don't know I'll admit I don't know but will research it before I come across looking like a fool, but what can Reddick tell me about "content engagement" that I haven't learned or practiced yet. I'm in IT by trade, but I've been writing both technically at work, and creatively as a hobby and a side hustle because I'm a geek that actually love it.
I do as well, however trusted, established NBA elite media professionals that I lean on for their takes, opinions, call it what you want because I'm not an NBA expert, all pretty much say to be fair that Bronny will more than likely be not more than a serviceable NBA player, if so, he'll achieve more than 99 percent of everybody that ever-played organized basketball, I love the game, but being 5' 8" every time I played in a pickup game I would get mauled underneath trying to haul in a rebound, I just stuck with scholastic wrestling in the winter and baseball in the spring and summer, I'll leave the 320 pound linemen in football to do their thing and the 6' 10" hoopsters to do theirs.Comment -
IBetYouSBR Hall of Famer
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#26You lot are talking about the 55th pick in a weak draft. That is not to say the 55th best player in a weak draft, for many potential 2nd rounders prefer to go undrafted. The pick is meaningless -if you could use it gain favour with one of your best players then fine.
I remember the Mavs using their pick on Indian Satnam Singh Bahrami - who's now a pro wrestler WWE style - because they wanted fans in India.Comment -
IBetYouSBR Hall of Famer
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#27Same thing every year in the draft... Pistons with a new GM but again they take the athletic African-American with no jump shot -they say if he can improve his jump shot he will be really special, but he can't right now, but IF he could then... but he can't right now... but IF... many never do. Mavs always draft some foreigner because they favour diversity. Spurs always draft a tall pg with no jump shot or a player with a shit personality -ticked both boxes with Castle I think.Comment -
unde0087BARRELED IN @ SBR!
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#28He was an impact player, he kept the bench warm for others to have a comfortably warm chair during a timeout.Comment -
JIBBBYSBR Aristocracy
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#29Bronny needs a pace maker. His heart could stop again.Comment -
Tammy_GAdministrator
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#30Comment -
HeadsterxSBR Posting Legend
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#31Damn, wrong thread. This tequila is hitting too early.Comment -
stevenashModerator
- 01-17-11
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#33Tequila is evil.
One evening we were drinking at the sports bar watching football.
Back in the day I could really hold my liquor, never got sick and all, that's probably why I gave it up, I could drink all night.
Anyway, back to my long-winded story that usually goes nowhere, we were at the pub for no more than four hours, and my buddy was setting us up with tequila shots.
When I used to do shots my go to was Wild Turkey 101 and a bottle of Becks to back that up.
I rarely drank tequila, I was primarily 101 and Becks, or Smirnoff 100 proof (blue label) and cranberry.
So, in the course of the Giants game, about four hours, I had three shots and three long necks.
Nothing right?
I was feeling OK when we went out the door, get to the sidewalk, I wobbled forward, straighten up than wobble backwards.
Straightened up, too two steps on the concrete, then wobbled forward again and fell forehead first smack down.
I didn't even attempt to brace the fall with my hands.
Bam!
I had a welt the size of a grapefruit on my head for two weeks.
This was October 2019, right before COVID.
It'll be five years sober for me in about four months.
Don't miss it, not at all.
Tequilla is wicked evil.Comment -
JIBBBYSBR Aristocracy
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#34Comment -
asiagamblerSBR Hall of Famer
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#35Health concerns aside, Bronny actually does project to be a useful player
He defends at a high level and his stock definitely ticked up with a strong combine
Add to that just his mere presence on the bench will probably elevate LeBron's play (think Thanasis Antekounmpo)- especially on the defensive end, so it was really a no-brainer for the Lakers to pick him. Could have probably been done more lowkey without all the bluster and fanfare but well that's LebronComment
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