No Paul George, No Cry
Many will say not to worry about potential penalties that may fall on the Lakers, but the fine line between tampering and harmless public banter should not be toyed with. Especially, in dealing with an opposing team that currently employs an advisor that is famous for being Magic Johnson’s rival.
The Lakers have drafted well, re-tooled their higher-ups, and positioned themselves to land two max-contract superstars next year, shaping their team more organically then they have in recent memory. Or at least in a way the Lakers know how — in that fancy, expensive, LA, organic kind of way.
The correlation between Dan Gilbert and the “other-owners” complaining to the NBA about the Chris Paul trade, and Indiana requesting the NBA to investigate the Lakers for tampering are eerily reminiscent of one another, even if they are two different situations.
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Those excellent with numbers will give detailed and accurate reasonings as to how it all worked out for the aforementioned “super-teams”, but one can’t help but feel a sense of collaborative scheming that opposes the Lakers’ desire to reach the levels of prosperity, or at least respectability.