Uh Oh, the Lakers are Buying out Deng

[Coolbreeze44]

Don't do it Thibs. Don't do it. Hell no. Thibs, if you care about our friendship don't do it.

[Wolvesfan21]

I saw that too, Thibs is thinking, hey, lets get the band back together. Never mind he didn't win a Championship then when they were in their primes.

[Monster]

I'd guess Deng knows there are some teams interested to give up a decent chunk of money.

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1035965555507978240?s=21

"ESPN reporting with @ramonashelburne: In buyout with Lakers, Luol Deng walked away from $7.5M on the $36.8M left on his contract. With waive and stretch provision, Lakers have cleared $38M in salary cap space in 2019 free agency."


In other news Cool and Thibs are friends now. We need to know how this worked out. My guess is that Thibs called a lot of guys to be friends with and it just didn't work out till this year. This has been a pretty good offseason!

[BloopOracle]

I honestly wouldn't mind him here I think it would be a decent fit. As far as Joakim Noah I see no reason to sign him if he ends up being bought out as well.

[Lipoli390]

I wouldn't sign him, but I'd be willing to be a sizable chunk of money that Thibs will - unless he's holding out for Noah. :). Actually, I wouldn't mind signing Noah for the minimum if he's bought out. I think he'd be a better fit.

[kekgeek]

I would be fine with Deng, I mean every player left would probably make little impact to the Wolves this year. I would rather have Deng then Noah for the fact that I think both will bring little to the team this year but Deng is known to be at least a good dude, not so sure about Noah (in the terms of team chemistry).

In other news apparently more info about Kat and Butler is going to be posted in the Pioneer Press tomorrow that there is more to the bad Kat and Butler relationship. (Did Jimmy fuck Kat GF because if it is not serious like that both KAT and Butler need to put pride aside and figure this thing out).

[TAFKASP]

I would be fine with Deng, I mean every player left would probably make little impact to the Wolves this year. I would rather have Deng then Noah for the fact that I think both will bring little to the team this year but Deng is known to be at least a good dude, not so sure about Noah (in the terms of team chemistry).

In other news apparently more info about Kat and Butler is going to be posted in the Pioneer Press tomorrow that there is more to the bad Kat and Butler relationship. (Did Jimmy fuck Kat GF because if it is not serious like that both KAT and Butler need to put pride aside and figure this thing out).

The players run this assylum, so nobody needs to do anything, and nobody can tell them they need to. Even setting aside the super teams that make it virtually impossible for 27 of the 30 teams to seriously compete for a championship, the fact that players have as much power as they do in the NBA is going to be it's ruin. After all those years in the Timberwolves wilderness I'm actually losing interest now that the team has actual NBA talent.

As for Deng, if this thing is going to implode, let's make sure it does so in spectacular fashion!

[Monster]

Noah seems to be more likely to produce if he is healthy. He seems less likely to be healthy and while a defensive center sounds nice...we don't really need a center that bad. Deng hasn't been that productive in his minutes for the Lakers. CAMELO has him as a plus defender for the Lakers and projects him to continue to be a plus defender and negative offensively. He fits the modern game more as a stretch 4 which could be handy. He is more of a guy that would be a mentor than Noah. I won't be shocked if a few teams have interest in him. The Wolves new assistant coach Malik Allen was a vet on the Bulls when Deng was a young guy. I think I'm leaning towards adding Deng if I had to pick one but I don't feel super strong either way. I think either COULD have something left. There is a good chance they don't either but a lot of FAs have a chance to basically suck.

[WildWolf2813]

How about we add neither of em, stop trying to give mentors to our $30 mil a year players who should have had it figured out by now, and actually focus on player development.

I remember when people groaned on here when Tayshaun Prince was getting crunch time minutes at the expense of our youth, but some of y'all wanna relive this with Deng?

[kekgeek]

How about we add neither of em, stop trying to give mentors to our $30 mil a year players who should have had it figured out by now, and actually focus on player development.

I remember when people groaned on here when Tayshaun Prince was getting crunch time minutes at the expense of our youth, but some of y'all wanna relive this with Deng?

Its not even the mentor role, its that we have no proven backup wings on the roster. Rose is still a PG first but he will be asked to play SG, Nunnally is just coming back to the NBA and he was not productive his first time around, Okogie is a rookie. We have no guarantee that any of these players will actually produce this year off the bench so you try and add as many eggs into the basket as you can and hope one of them can become a plus player.. We are at the point of the organization where winning games is so much more important than giving some young guys run.

*On the Prince thing, the Wolves were not good defensively that year but when Prince was on the court the wolves were 5 pts better per 100 possessions defensively what would put him in the 96th percentile that year. So he helped the wolves that year.