“Lakers All Day Everyday on Twitter” REPORT: The Lakers are planning to re-sign D’Angelo Russell 👀 (Via @TheAthletic)

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  1. Makes sense. Even if D’Angelo isn’t the one he will still be a great trade asset for the next few years.

  3. Who at the Athletic said that? Either way, I think it’s pretty much a given we keep him around. Neither side has much else to go on and we both had great success together. Dlo will be enormously helpful during the 82 game season.

    Edit here’s the quote from Buha.

    “That could always change based on the Lakers’ track record and how the rest of free agency plays out. But all indications, both publicly and privately, point to the organization planning to re-sign restricted free agents Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura and unrestricted free agent D’Angelo Russell, as The Athletic previously reported. The Lakers are also expected to try to retain unrestricted free agent Dennis Schröder and Lonnie Walker IV, though they do not have full Bird rights on either.”

    Pretty much what we all assumed, but if this is true, and we keep Beasley and/or Bamba, then we’re a 2nd apron team and won’t have anything besides the vet min to work with. With that said, if we’re able to basically run it back in full we’d have a full roster anyway in Bron, AD, Dlo, Reaves, Vando, Rui, Lonnie, Beasley, Bamba, Christie, JHS, and Lewis. There’s only room for a couple vet mins there anyway.

  6. DLo was huge for us until the DEN series. Im guilty of being a prisoner of the moment too at that time but he’s definitely a nice piece at the right price. He doesn’t deserve the amount of hate he gets…imagine him if all of a sudden he gets more consistent 👀

  13. If it’s no more than 20M then of course, but hopefully we are not giving him 30M again.

  14. Like it or not but we dont beat the Grizzlies and Warriors without him.

    Positives about DLo

    Spaces the floor,Great in Pick and Roll with AD, Should be on a cheap contract, and he improves the vibes of the team, decreases our stars workload

    Negatives

    Defense and incosistent

  16. I think a 4/85m is realistic. Kind of like what Brogdon got when he signed with Indiana

    They would most likely attach a player option at the end of it as well

  20. Even with his disappointing play in the playoffs, I still want him back as long as the contract is reasonable. We dont have any obvious paths to an upgrade and I’d rather keep/add talent instead of losing it

  21. I don’t think they should let him walk, but they definitely should look at moving him or building a team that doesn’t need him as much. He’s solid, but always is going to be a playoff underperformer. Wasn’t just like that for the nuggets series, it’s just a career thing

  22. Good. Makes no sense to let him walk. He’s still a solid player even if he has limitations.

  23. DLO is gonna get so much better with this core after a full summer of: rest, getting healthy, and training camp. Came to a team that was clawing at hope just to get into the playoffs and made it to the WCF without rest or legit practices.

  24. Others have pointed out. It’s out of necessity. Similar to the broadie experiment keeping DLO will give the lakers opportunity to move matching salaries

  25. Any chance we can also bring back Dennis? I like DLO but I just trust Dennis infinitely more defensively/in crunch time.

  26. Dude completely changed the culture when he came here. I mean literally everyone on the team does his celebration after a three

    Also realistically he’s the best option available considering our cap situation

  27. Even if he’s a great regular season player, having him be the starting 1 guard on a 1 or 2 seed team means you can hopefully hide him thru more favorably seeded playoff matchups. Steve Nash was a cone but to me he wasn’t the reason the 7SOL Suns never made a Finals.

  28. I don’t GAF what anybody else thinks: I haven’t given up on Russell. I still think he can be a core piece of this franchise for a very long time (bad Denver series or not). Call me crazy.

  30. Noooooooo, why Rob, why. -100 in four games is not a good record to have btw

  32. This is absolutely the right move. Give this team, this core (AD, LBJ, D’Lo, Rui, Reaves) a full training camp, season and more to gel and learn the systems together.

    People forget that guys like Rui and Reaves haven’t even come close to fulfilling their upside. We don’t need drastic trades or changes to be better. We just need time.

    Even without LBJ, this team pulled off a great playoff run — that means we’re not going to absolutely suck when he retires.

  35. 🧊💪

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    It is a smart play. DLo will have good enough numbers to be used as an asset at the deadline. Boring move, but worth it.

  36. This has always been the obvious choice to anyone who knows anything about cap space

  37. Its 100% happening. No choice really and he is a perfect scoring guard for regular season. Just need a Carter or some tough as nails backup for playoff crunch time defense

  38. Expected. Likely a trade piece by the trade deadline. Maybe for someone like Irving if they shit the bed.

  39. This is not a bad option. It would be worse to just let him walk. If it all doesn’t work out, at least we still have an option to potentially trade him at the deadline.

  40. People are forgeting how much Malik and TBJ played in the regular season and in the playoffs were a no show. If both of them could have hit their 3s it would have made DLos job so much easier and we wouldnt have expected 20+points from him every night.

  41. DLO is obviously a great P&R player but let’s be honest, the chemistry he brings is unmatched. Night and day difference from his rookie years of course. Sounds like another good move to me.

  42. Great, there are not many good and viable options out there, D’Lo will be better next season for sure

  43. Run it back. This team with a training camp and those additional draft pieces for depth and development would be SICK. This team with Christie contributing more would be getting that PoA defense and spacing they lacked last year

  44. I don’t hate him if the Lakers can finish in the top 3.

    I hate him if the Lakers don’t finish in the top 3 because he sucks ass in the playoffs, his playoff numbers are atrocious and he can’t defend. I don’t want him anywhere near big minutes when it counts.

    The more he has to play against the top teams, the worse he is. If he can help us beat bad teams where it doesn’t matter that he sucks ass, that’s fine.

    But when he forgets how to play offense in the playoffs and his defense uscks and he’s basically and should be unplayable for it, he becomes a real issue.

  45. This is the right call. He proved his talents from February through to the Golden State series. He’ll remember his poor performance against the Nuggets. And has all summer and regular season to work through anything else.

  46. maybe a 3 year/51 million…take it or leave it because he needs a redeem season as a reason to earn his money.

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