They are playing the rebuild well, and probably will get lucky in that Lebron is unhappy and has ties to LA. Paul George is almost a lock to land there. The question at that point is whether there's enough depth, but Lonzo will have a year to run the team and learn and then will be relieved of any pressure to be the man for a few years if all that falls into place.

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I like Lonzo, too. He's clearly very, very good. Whether he'll be NBA elite level in his rookie season is another matter, but the potential is there. He also seems like a decent, likeable guy. His dad is annoying, but what better place than the LA media market to have Papa Ball shooting his big mouth? Walton started the turnaround last season, though it wasn't easy to see in the W-L numbers. The Lakers will be much improved this year and I'd expect a lot of free agents to jump on board for the 18-19 season.

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More Lavar idiocy:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lavar-ball-gets-technical-foul-150354271.html

In the first clip, he gets a "T" coaching his AAU team, gets upset and pulls them off the court, forfeiting a game they were winning by 9. Not much in the clip other than lowlights of third son missing multiple in-game dunk attempts as the credit roll, which made me laugh.

In the 3rd clip, he tries to act like a cool hipster marketeer in a pathetic and ridiculous manner. Seriously, what a sad pitch.

I again state that I look forward to watching the Lakers implode.

concordtom;842855493 said:

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More Lavar idiocy:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lavar-ball-gets-technical-foul-150354271.html

In the first clip, he gets a "T" coaching his AAU team, gets upset and pulls them off the court, forfeiting a game they were winning by 9. Not much in the clip other than lowlights of third son missing multiple in-game dunk attempts as the credit roll, which made me laugh.

In the 3rd clip, he tries to act like a cool hipster marketeer in a pathetic and ridiculous manner. Seriously, what a sad pitch.

I again state that I look forward to watching the Lakers implode.

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The dude is like a Kardashian: He lives for people's attention. Why give him any? These kind of people bore the S*** out of me...

Lonzo Ball's game is pretty cool though!

Big C_Cal;842855551 said:

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The dude is like a Kardashian: He lives for people's attention. Why give him any? These kind of people bore the S*** out of me...

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That's sound advice for someone who matters not one iota!

But what to do about presidential politics? Same kind of character, but we just can't let him run around unchecked. Scaramucci said, "oh, he's brand new at this... oh, he won the electoral college... oh, he's a successful businessman... oh, he's 71 and not going to change. We should just let him be himself."
Uh, no. That would be a very scary thing. God bless those GOPers who have the willpower to say no to him. I'll vote for them based on that alone. Guys like Paul Ryan who caved and kissed the ring are wusses and stand for nothing personally.

concordtom;842855569 said:

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Guys like Paul Ryan who caved and kissed the ring are wusses and stand for nothing personally.

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Guys like Paul Ryan are kissing more than the ring.

Lol

concordtom;842855569 said:

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That's sound advice for someone who matters not one iota!

But what to do about presidential politics? Same kind of character, but we just can't let him run around unchecked. Scaramucci said, "oh, he's brand new at this... oh, he won the electoral college... oh, he's a successful businessman... oh, he's 71 and not going to change. We should just let him be himself."
Uh, no. That would be a very scary thing. God bless those GOPers who have the willpower to say no to him. I'll vote for them based on that alone. Guys like Paul Ryan who caved and kissed the ring are wusses and stand for nothing personally.

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Please be sure to emphasize to the GOP House-types that Ryan and all the other Russo-philes in leadership have got to go.

As for Lavar Ball, if you can't love hucksterism, you can't fully love America.

Fyght4Cal;842855851 said:

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As for Lavar Ball, if you can't love hucksterism, you can't fully love America.

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Yeah he's a huckster but he's also all about LaVar... the whole pulling his team off the floor because he didn't like a foul call is just bad....

stu;842855610 said:

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Guys like Paul Ryan are kissing more than the ring.

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Rep senator graham of SC warns this morning that if trump fires sessions there will be holy hell to pay, and if he fires Mueller that could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
Sure sounds like a threat to impeach!

Finally. GOP push back instead of ass kiss.

Checks and balances were written into the constitution for a reason, but it doesn't work if people blindly follow a leadership of 1.

There have been Republicans pushing back (McCain for example) from day 1.... it is against the law for Sessions to not recuse himself so Trumpf is just talking out of his @ss... The market loves the gridlock as long as the economy stays on a growth (albeit slow) path.... Trumps act fills up the talk shows and the online boards.... but not much is getting done in DC... which ain't all bad.

Bad news for Big Baller brand

Quote:

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Air ball! Nobody's buying expensive sneakers

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/investing/sneakers-foot-locker-nike-under-armour/index.html

MSaviolives;842862639 said:

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Bad news for Big Baller brand



http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/investing/sneakers-foot-locker-nike-under-armour/index.html

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There are hundreds of pricey designer sneaker options in the market that did not exist 5 years ago.

Jordan retros changed the landscape imo. I see homeless cats rocking j's now.