2025 NBA Season

[Vaculin]

I just wonder when is the exact deadline of this free agency signing. Does anyone know?

This is taken from the link below, I hope I understood it correctly.  

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Qualifying offers expire on Oct. 1, but can be extended. However, the extension of a qualifying offer cannot go past March 1.

https://www.nba.com/free-agency-explained

[Jating]

Kobe was never really interested in who Lakers were getting at all, Harden and Lebron has been doing that for a while now, hell Lebron actually made sure his friends that he wanted to play with got huge contracts as well and he managed to make that happen too whereas if you look at Kobe dude played with likes of Smush Parker and Kwame brown because those were the people given to him.

Even during Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom era he became good friends with those players AFTER they were traded to Lakers, he never showed any indication that he wants them to be traded to Lakers or made any moves about it. Kobe just wanted to play and beat everyone on his way, nothing else, he was a killer who didn't care about who he had in the team and who he wants to kick out, dude would have kicked half of the roster if he wanted to get rid of bad players.

Kobe didn't use that kind of influence even he have that previledge, knowing how great he was and how he love playing with great competitions he's been challenge playing with teammates that he needs to adjust, but unlike LeBron and Harden's who needs to keep choosing for the players behind them and not ready to adjust.

He have the talents and he showcase his greatness with whoever teammates behind him that's how he love this league.

But how about the Shaquille rumour though? That time there were news that Kobe ask the Lakers management to choose between him and Shaq? Even Shaq jokingly said it during his acceptance on the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame. So Kobe that time has the power and influence and tell the Lakers management as to who is the player he wanted his team.

When he was threaten, he uses his alpha influence to sway everyone who is getting into the Lakers.

[Reid]

Kobe was never really interested in who Lakers were getting at all, Harden and Lebron has been doing that for a while now, hell Lebron actually made sure his friends that he wanted to play with got huge contracts as well and he managed to make that happen too whereas if you look at Kobe dude played with likes of Smush Parker and Kwame brown because those were the people given to him.

Even during Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom era he became good friends with those players AFTER they were traded to Lakers, he never showed any indication that he wants them to be traded to Lakers or made any moves about it. Kobe just wanted to play and beat everyone on his way, nothing else, he was a killer who didn't care about who he had in the team and who he wants to kick out, dude would have kicked half of the roster if he wanted to get rid of bad players.

Kobe didn't use that kind of influence even he have that previledge, knowing how great he was and how he love playing with great competitions he's been challenge playing with teammates that he needs to adjust, but unlike LeBron and Harden's who needs to keep choosing for the players behind them and not ready to adjust.

He have the talents and he showcase his greatness with whoever teammates behind him that's how he love this league.

But how about the Shaquille rumour though? That time there were news that Kobe ask the Lakers management to choose between him and Shaq? Even Shaq jokingly said it during his acceptance on the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame. So Kobe that time has the power and influence and tell the Lakers management as to who is the player he wanted his team.

When he was threaten, he uses his alpha influence to sway everyone who is getting into the Lakers.

Kaching!!! We have a new winner.
That is half true and Shaq does mean it. That is why him and Kobe didnt really managed to be together in one team for a long time.
With Shaq taking the MVP, Kobe was threatened.
Of course Kobe wont admit it. He will still need to look good at the public making dramas that it was Shaq's decision.
If not then his tv shows will not make any money with the public hating him.
I do adore his kind of play in basketball but never his behaviour.

[darewaller]

Kobe demanded to be traded to Lakers because he was a Laker even before he was in Lakers, that is not the same as demanding trading someone to your team.

Let's compare what we are talking about here, Kobe wanted good team mates and demanded to be traded to some other team if Lakers couldn't build around him and never really did it even when he was playing with Smush Parker and Luke Walton, Kwame brown and so forth that was his team and he never left for 20 years even tho he said he would plenty of times, whereas Lebron literally got his agent to represent AD in order to persuade him to come play with him and got Lakers get rid of all the promising future players on their team for AD just because he wanted him to play there with him whereas Harden literally got rid of a top 20 of all time scoring guy from BENCH just to have more shots to shoot for himself instead of sharing with others. Those three things are not same at all.

[rosezionjohn]

There are reports circulating that Tyrone Lue is close to becoming Doc Rivers' top assistant coach. If he'll accept the job, I salute him for wanting to learn more despite being a former champion head coach in Cleveland. The LA Clippers coaching staff looking good.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/los-angeles-clippers-to-hire-tyronn-lue-as-top-assistant-to-doc-rivers-per-report/

[Reid]

There are reports circulating that Tyrone Lue is close to becoming Doc Rivers' top assistant coach. If he'll accept the job, I salute him for wanting to learn more despite being a former champion head coach in Cleveland. The LA Clippers coaching staff looking good.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/los-angeles-clippers-to-hire-tyronn-lue-as-top-assistant-to-doc-rivers-per-report/

Great. He needs it.
Looks like he is following the footsteps of Mike Brown who is still the associate head coach in Golden State Warriors next to Steve Kerr.
Is it a curse in Cleveland? 

Maybe Tyronn Lue finds it still difficult to get respect from stars specially with what happened with him in Cleveland with Lebron. He is still young. There is no problem doing it, worse is he wont find any job and just watching games on television.

[jostorres]

There are very few players who didn't used their influence at all, for example Tim Duncan was an all time great with 5 rings to prove it and I doubt he ever used his influence to meddle with the inner workings of the team or the roster, same with dirk Nowitzki or even maybe Dwayne wade until he was at certain age (before Chicago years).

However, Kobe wasn't even remotely like Lebron, of course Kobe used a bit of influence and specially during Shaq saga he was really putting all his effort into the game but also using his influence to make sure everybody knows he is the leader of that team and when he failed he sacked Shaq for sure but its not like Melo, Melo is having hard time finding a team, Shaq took up like 150 million dollars plus some more after he got traded.

[harizen]

Oh my. Bad luck really hits DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins is now expected to be out of the whole season (or probably will play only a few games) after suffering a torn ACL (again).

He is still not 100% recovered from the recent injury that resulted to him to only play few games with the Golden State Warriors last season and now another injury comes to him during a recent practice. This is one of the youngest players in the league who got destroyed by an injury. He is even lucky that the Los Angeles Lakers were able to sign him this free agency.

Cousins surely is frustrated. Remember that he is entitled to a max contract during his Pelicans day but injury struck him resulting for a $5.3M one year deal with the Golden State Warriors last season. And now, he even accepted a much lower $3.5M one year deal with the Lakers. The upcoming season might be his chance to regain his value even a bit but injury happen again. What's next? $2m with other teams next season or will decide to retire now.

[Fredomago]

Oh my. Bad luck really hits DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins is now expected to be out of the whole season (or probably will play only a few games) after suffering a torn ACL (again).

He is still not 100% recovered from the recent injury that resulted to him to only play few games with the Golden State Warriors last season and now another injury comes to him during a recent practice. This is one of the youngest players in the league who got destroyed by an injury. He is even lucky that the Los Angeles Lakers were able to sign him this free agency.

Cousins surely is frustrated. Remember that he is entitled to a max contract during his Pelicans day but injury struck him resulting for a $5.3M one year deal with the Golden State Warriors last season. And now, he even accepted a much lower $3.5M one year deal with the Lakers. The upcoming season might be his chance to regain his value even a bit but injury happen again. What's next? $2m with other teams next season or will decide to retire now.

He's still young and if he will take care of this issue same with how Kawhi treated his injury before, time and proper routine for this injury can give him a chance to comeback with much healthier conditions, and hopefully get his value back again.

 Cousins love this sports we seen him playing last season's finals, even he's not 100% healthy but he tried his best to play and show some lift to help the team to extend the series and to avoid a sweep.

[Reid]

Oh my. Bad luck really hits DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins is now expected to be out of the whole season (or probably will play only a few games) after suffering a torn ACL (again).

He is still not 100% recovered from the recent injury that resulted to him to only play few games with the Golden State Warriors last season and now another injury comes to him during a recent practice. This is one of the youngest players in the league who got destroyed by an injury. He is even lucky that the Los Angeles Lakers were able to sign him this free agency.

Cousins surely is frustrated. Remember that he is entitled to a max contract during his Pelicans day but injury struck him resulting for a $5.3M one year deal with the Golden State Warriors last season. And now, he even accepted a much lower $3.5M one year deal with the Lakers. The upcoming season might be his chance to regain his value even a bit but injury happen again. What's next? $2m with other teams next season or will decide to retire now.

He should say goodbye to million dollars contracts. He may get like hundreds of thousands the next time he heals.
Even if he shows a lot of skills there will be a lot of doubt within team managements. With all that injuries coming back over and over again and with his big body there will always be chances that it will go back.
Sorry Demarcus.

Here are some tweets from NBA players.

Trevor Booker

@35_Fitz
 Man, I feel for Boog right now. I know this shit is tough but don’t give up big homie. You have a lot of people rooting for you @boogiecousins

Isaiah Thomas

@isaiahthomas
 Praying for my brother @boogiecousins

Jusuf Nurkić

@bosnianbeast27
 Damn come back stronger
#nothingisimpossible

Kendrick Perkins

@KendrickPerkins
 Wow! Praying for the Big Fella @boogiecousins! Get well my dude. I’m lost for words! Man can’t catch a break for nothing!

[Vaculin]

Bad news for cousins and the Lakers, we've seen his value when his healthy and the more he experience more injuries, that will slowly take his confidence from him which he might not give his full potential.

The market value of a player depends on the overall performance in the past, but the management also considers if a player is prone to injury and cousins is, because he was already injured many times, but even wit that said, I'm also hoping for his fast recovery so he can do his passion again.

[rosezionjohn]

Is it a curse in Cleveland? 

It could be 

The market value of a player depends on the overall performance in the past, but the management also considers if a player is prone to injury

Tough luck for him. Maybe it was a wrong move on his part to turn down the $40M 2-year deal with the Pelicians while he as still injured before he went chasing a ring with the Warriors.

[Distinctin]

Tough luck for him. Maybe it was a wrong move on his part to turn down the $40M 2-year deal with the Pelicians while he as still injured before he went chasing a ring with the Warriors.

Maybe, but who would expect an injury in his career, that's unforeseen thing in sports and everyone does not wish to be injured.
I admire cousins decision of gunning for the Championship instead of the money because maybe he got a plan that when he will become a champion and he showed up with the Warriors, his market value will increase, but it's just unfortunate that his expectation does not happen and even when he was still with the Warriors, he doesn't play a lot of minutes, still, due to the reason of injury problem.

[Jating]

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But how about the Shaquille rumour though? That time there were news that Kobe ask the Lakers management to choose between him and Shaq? Even Shaq jokingly said it during his acceptance on the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame. So Kobe that time has the power and influence and tell the Lakers management as to who is the player he wanted his team.

When he was threaten, he uses his alpha influence to sway everyone who is getting into the Lakers.

Kaching!!! We have a new winner.
That is half true and Shaq does mean it. That is why him and Kobe didnt really managed to be together in one team for a long time.
With Shaq taking the MVP, Kobe was threatened.
Of course Kobe wont admit it. He will still need to look good at the public making dramas that it was Shaq's decision.
If not then his tv shows will not make any money with the public hating him.
I do adore his kind of play in basketball but never his behaviour.

Thank you very much!!!. I guess it's an open book already in NBA that Kobe has something to do with Shaq getting out of the Lakers franchise and Kobe becoming the alpha of that team after that.

Oh, Cousins injured again? I would say that he is on a big psychological and physical barrier again, he showed he can still play after coming back from an injury as a GSW. It was really unfortunate for him that we haven't even started the a new season he got injured so another long process before we can see him healthy (again).

[RealMalatesta]

First an Achillies injury then Quad injury and now an ACL. I am thinking the reason why he is having these injuries must be related to each other, when you are injured like that you try to not put too much pressure on that foot which causes all kinds of troubles and as soon as its "healthy" people think its back to normal but its not, its just as good as it gets and never 100%.

I know he has made a ton of money and maybe spent most of it but he must start looking to save up all money he can get from now on because he may have to end his career early, dude ended up with a minimum last year to prove himself and then had to sign another minimum this year to do that again and because of this injury there is a big chance he will have to do it next year as well, that is around 50 million dollars lost already so if he wants to survive (believe me there are tons of poor ex-NBA players) he has to be smart about his money because his playing days seems like it is either over or soon to be over because there is a huge chance he can't come back from this.

[Reid]

Thank you very much!!!. I guess it's an open book already in NBA that Kobe has something to do with Shaq getting out of the Lakers franchise and Kobe becoming the alpha of that team after that.

Yes. That is the truth. They aint like Jordan and Pippen. They have been against each other even when they are team mates.

Oh, Cousins injured again? I would say that he is on a big psychological and physical barrier again, he showed he can still play after coming back from an injury as a GSW. It was really unfortunate for him that we haven't even started the a new season he got injured so another long process before we can see him healthy (again).

But after all the Cousins drama the Lakers remain as the favorite according to Caesars Sportsbook.
Next is Clippers and then the Bucks.
I dont think that is much loss to the team and they might be expecting it too since they gave him just a little low amount.

Sad part is Demarcus is on his way into coming back and showing his skills again. Now this.

[joshy23]

Tough luck for him. Maybe it was a wrong move on his part to turn down the $40M 2-year deal with the Pelicians while he as still injured before he went chasing a ring with the Warriors.

Maybe, but who would expect an injury in his career, that's unforeseen thing in sports and everyone does not wish to be injured.
I admire cousins decision of gunning for the Championship instead of the money because maybe he got a plan that when he will become a champion and he showed up with the Warriors, his market value will increase, but it's just unfortunate that his expectation does not happen and even when he was still with the Warriors, he doesn't play a lot of minutes, still, due to the reason of injury problem.

He almost got the Ring but unfortunately  the team got a lots of injured players like him, the chance for him to get the ring can be alive after being traded to Lakers the problem is, he will be bench for the whole season and nothing to be expected after this injury comes up again and make it more worsened.

[Jating]

But after all the Cousins drama the Lakers remain as the favorite according to Caesars Sportsbook.
Next is Clippers and then the Bucks.
I dont think that is much loss to the team and they might be expecting it too since they gave him just a little low amount.

Sad part is Demarcus is on his way into coming back and showing his skills again. Now this.

They still have James and AD and I think that is enough for the Lakers to be the favourite this season.

I agree that is the sad part, he had shown his skill as a Warriors even though  playing with limited minutes. It will be painful for him to be in the sideline and just watch Lakers with James and Davis playing and having some fun.

[Fredomago]

But after all the Cousins drama the Lakers remain as the favorite according to Caesars Sportsbook.
Next is Clippers and then the Bucks.
I dont think that is much loss to the team and they might be expecting it too since they gave him just a little low amount.

Sad part is Demarcus is on his way into coming back and showing his skills again. Now this.

They still have James and AD and I think that is enough for the Lakers to be the favourite this season.

I agree that is the sad part, he had shown his skill as a Warriors even though  playing with limited minutes. It will be painful for him to be in the sideline and just watch Lakers with James and Davis playing and having some fun.

If both LeBron and AD will play healthy this season they have a very good chances to win this title, it's early though for any assessment as the league even not started yet, this odd still a speculative for sportshouse they are giving early opinions so fans and bettors will be able to point their favorite teams and how they can assess the possibilities.

Cousin's issue may affect as he can deal as one of the big factors interiorly but with his condition AD need to step up and extend his play time.

[Distinctin]

But after all the Cousins drama the Lakers remain as the favorite according to Caesars Sportsbook.
Next is Clippers and then the Bucks.
I dont think that is much loss to the team and they might be expecting it too since they gave him just a little low amount.

Sad part is Demarcus is on his way into coming back and showing his skills again. Now this.

They still have James and AD and I think that is enough for the Lakers to be the favourite this season.

I agree that is the sad part, he had shown his skill as a Warriors even though  playing with limited minutes. It will be painful for him to be in the sideline and just watch Lakers with James and Davis playing and having some fun.

If both LeBron and AD will play healthy this season they have a very good chances to win this title, it's early though for any assessment as the league even not started yet, this odd still a speculative for sportshouse they are giving early opinions so fans and bettors will be able to point their favorite teams and how they can assess the possibilities.

Cousin's issue may affect as he can deal as one of the big factors interiorly but with his condition AD need to step up and extend his play time.

I agree with it, Lebron and AD should remain healthy so they will have a better chance to be in the NBA finals.
The warriors is not a big threat anymore, Durant was out of the team so it's just the same old Warriors that relies heavily on outside shooting but with good physical defense, they will not be consistent and I believe Lebron and AD can do penetrate in the inside which makes their teammates especially the outside shooters to become better.