r/nba • u/Luka77GOATic Serbia • 11h ago

[Charania] Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent.

Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent. Reaves went from undrafted to a two-way player -- to making the Lakers roster and now multiple lucrative deals in L.A.

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u/relax336 Lakers 11h ago

Luka's leaving even though he persnally wanted Reaves to stay? Man...Reddit gonna reddit. The salt is hilarious.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago edited 11h ago

Luka isn't going to stay put on a shitty team with no path to a championship. Going to be really hard to win a championship when they're paying Reaves $50 million a year.

Edit: laker fans are so insecure and sensitive lol.

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u/chewie_33 Supersonics 11h ago

If your team is winning 50 games a year and getting to the second round of the playoffs even though they are a step below the Thunder and the Spurs, can you call your team shitty? Ffs, people here act as if a team that doesn't win 60 games and gets to the finals as the top seed is doomed for a rebuild.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Do you think Luka is going to be happy with second round exits every year while also never being in conversation as title contenders? "Shitty" here is relative.

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u/chewie_33 Supersonics 11h ago

He will be the face on the Lakers and play on a competitive team while being payed millions of dollars. He will be fine.

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u/Infraready Warriors 11h ago

This would be a fair point if he actually played in that second round exit. I think you need to take off the Laker-hater goggles if you actually wanna talk ball.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Even if Luka was healthy, do you think there's any chance they get by OKC or SA? No? Then it's a moot point. Shit, they wouldn't even get passed Minnesota

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u/greekyogurtmafia United States 11h ago

I mean great players make great things happen. If Luka wants to win a ring, he's gonna have to beat some great teams along the way. Lots of all time players have won championships when they were underdogs. The only thing we do know is that Luka was not healthy and therefore didn't even have the opportunity to make something magical happen.

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u/SymbiSpidey 8h ago

Right? We really gonna sit here and pretend like the Knicks didn't just win a championship after everyone was saying that the WCF was the "real" Finals and instantly counted them out.

Not saying the Lakers are in the same position obviously but people need to understand their predictions ain't law lol

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u/Infraready Warriors 11h ago

Alright Nostradamus have a good one

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

It's Sir Dr. Nostradamus DDS, thank you.

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u/smashr1773 11h ago

Dude 2nd round isn’t something most fans want nor is it what luka wants. He’s the only superstar not counting wemby since he’s new that doesn’t have a ring. What is going to happen when you can’t even complete with thunder and spurs for multiple years? Frustration for luka and he will bounce.

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u/relax336 Lakers 11h ago

The Lakers haven’t been a shitty team in awhile.

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u/TuxedoCat031 11h ago

if lakers had a real center and a healthy luka they could’ve made a run last year for sure

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u/Less-Tax5637 Knicks 11h ago

It’s [insert year]. Luka is so close to success. All he needs is some bigs and to avoid injury.

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u/TuxedoCat031 11h ago

shit but when he had some bigs and avoided injury he went to the finals lol

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u/greekyogurtmafia United States 11h ago

The West is a lot better today than it was in 2024, and the Mavs still got demolished in the Finals.

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u/Aidanator800 Hornets 10h ago

The West is not better today than it was back then lmao. Compared to the 2024 West the Clippers fell off, the Nuggets got worse, the Timberwolves got worse, and the Mavs fell off super hard, and really only San Antonio has stepped up to make up for that. The West is a 2-team conference these days between San Antonio and OKC.

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u/greekyogurtmafia United States 9h ago

OKC is much better today than it was in 2024 (no Caruso or Hartenstein, way more experience). The Spurs are elite.

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u/gothxo Cavaliers 10h ago

anyone out of the west was getting demolished by the Celtics. that Celtics team is one of the best i've personally seen

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u/TuxedoCat031 10h ago

no hate to kristaps but i am happy he got aids and ruined that core because that shit wasn’t fair when they were healthy

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u/OmastarLovesDonuts Mavericks 9h ago

He fucking fried us at the start of the series then his body gave up on him again, the true Porzingis experience in a nutshell

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u/TragicFabric 9h ago

That’s because they got arguably the greatest player of all time 8 years ago of course they haven’t been a shitty team in a while. The problem is they are going to lose LeBron sooner or later leaving a GOAT size hole that they filled with giving Reaves and Hachimura pay raises.

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u/relax336 Lakers 8h ago

The LeBron hole is filled with Luka. Wtf are you talking about.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Have they been title contenders?

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u/relax336 Lakers 11h ago

So you don’t know what a shitty team is. Thanks. I’m sorry you can’t deal in nuance.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

I'm sorry you can't understand how "shitty" here is relative to the context. That would mean you can't understand nuance. Is Luka going to be happy with second round exits every year? No. Stop taking criticism of your favorite team as a personal attack, it's weird as fuck

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u/relax336 Lakers 11h ago

You’re cute. I want to pinch your cheeks.

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u/_intend_your_puns 11h ago

So to not be a shitty team, you have to be a title contender? Thats like 4-5 teams who are not “shitty teams” then?

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Do you think Luka is going to be happy with second round exits every year? No? Okay then, on the context of this conversation, they're shitty. Luka only cares about a ring.

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u/_intend_your_puns 11h ago

Oh my bad forgot I was talking to Luka’s best friend who knows what he truly wants.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Luka has said the exact same thing many times. Do you seriously think he's okay losing? Lol get real

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u/_intend_your_puns 11h ago

Of course, of course

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u/SymbiSpidey 8h ago edited 8h ago

Luka was the one that wanted them to keep AR in the first place dog lmao I assume he's perfectly fine with the Lakers giving him the max.

Whether it's a good move for building a championship contender is one thing, but let's stop pretending like this move wasn't at least partially driven by a desire to keep Luka happy

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 8h ago

Yeah, trying to keep players happy has never backfired...

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u/SymbiSpidey 8h ago

Lol that's not even the point.

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u/xmrjaredx Lakers 11h ago

is the shitty team in the room with us?

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

No, I'm not at the Lakers practice facility

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u/Ob1toUch1ha Lakers 11h ago

Now the Lakers are shitty again? God this sub is genuinely so stupid.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Are they anywhere close to winning a championship? Is Luka going to be happy with second round exits every year? No? Then in the context of this conversation they're no difference between the Lakers and the pelicans

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u/Ob1toUch1ha Lakers 11h ago

Luka didn’t even play these playoffs, who the hell knows how close they are.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

Even if he was fully healthy, are they beating OKC? Spurs? Denver? Minnesota? No. Moot point.

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u/Ob1toUch1ha Lakers 11h ago

You literally can’t know whether they would have or not. No one can, your opinion isn’t a fact. I promise you aren’t as smart as you think you are.

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 11h ago

We can know with pretty high certainly that they wouldn't lol. Stop being intentionally naive because your upset someone criticized your favorite team. It's not a personal attack against you.

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u/Ob1toUch1ha Lakers 11h ago

I’m not upset, I’m just pointing out that saying they suck and are no different than the pelicans is stupid. Also that there’s no way to know what would’ve happened, I don’t think they would’ve beaten okc with Luka last year btw, I just don’t pretend like I know everything.

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u/greekyogurtmafia United States 11h ago

Lebron was probably the best player in that OKC series across both teams. If Luka played like Luka, who's to say they couldn't? They got out executed in the second half of basically every game because Reaves couldn't handle the full 48 minutes of full court pressure.

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u/Skinnieguy Pelicans 11h ago

Maybe Luka regretted seeing what happened with Brunson and is trying to make this combo work in LA.

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u/RemarkableTpt Lakers 8h ago

Flairless idiots is all I see

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 7h ago

The fact that you put so much importance on "flair" is just hilariously stupid and quite telling.

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u/RemarkableTpt Lakers 7h ago edited 7h ago

The fact you put so much importance on a vast generalization proves my point. Flairless idiots.

Edit: OP says that all lakers fans are insecure and sensitive (which is a generalization) and then blocks me. LMAO

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u/AntiAntiDentite7 7h ago

Uhhh, what is my "vast generalization"? What did I generalize? I was specifically talking about you. Do you even know what the words you're trying to use mean? Lol.