Daily Ding: Lakers Upgrading the Roster?
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
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Andrew Schlecht and Jovan Buha discuss the Lakers offseason and what they need to do heading into the season + what are they gonna do with Russ?
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:15.4 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:18.3 | I like that idea. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to the Daily Ding. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck. |
| 0:22.5 | With me today, it's Yovan, Booha. Lakers B-rider for the athletic Yovon. What's up, man? I'm doing well, man. How are you? I'm good. Thanks for coming on. The Lakers can't stay out of the news, man. They're just always |
| 0:17.8 | trying to peek their head in |
| 0:20.8 | when it's like, |
| 0:21.7 | oh, |
| 0:21.9 | we got this big Donovan Mitchell deal. It's like, well, but what's going on with the Lakers? Like, but the Lakers don't do that have anything to do with this? They kind of did. There was some reporting on the Mitchell trade specifically that they were trying to be a third team in the mix, like trying to to latch |
| 0:56.1 | on to the back bumper of this trade. But they've done some stuff this summer. They extended |
| 1:02.7 | LeBron James. They did the Patrick Beverly deal. They've hired Darwin Ham. But the roster seems |
| 1:09.4 | unsettled. Like, what are the odds that this is the roster they take into training camp? |
| 1:16.2 | It's the roster that they take into training camp, I'd say, is around 50-50 right now. |
| 1:20.6 | Okay. |
| 1:21.1 | Is the roster, you know, post-trade deadline? |
| 1:24.7 | I would say 10, 20%. You know, I think that that's pretty, I mean, they're not 13 guys now, so I, I would say 10, 20%. |
| 1:27.8 | You know, I think that that's pretty, I mean, they're 13 guys now. |
| 1:31.4 | So I think at a minimum, they'll add one more player, you know, that could be converting one of |
| 1:37.3 | their two way guys into the 14th spot or just signing a free agent. |
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