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🏀 Xs & Os • Coach • Team & Agent Consulting • @The_BBall_Index Founder • @BlueWirePods ’ Lakers Exceptionalism Pod

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Cranjis McBasketball

7 months

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

These guys are STRUGGLING without NBA refs lol

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2 years

The Lakers getting the fanbase amped for Kyrie to give us Buddy Hield in a few days instead

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3 years

This is on the NBA. The refs call the game the way they’re told to do they keep their jobs. The players tailor their game to give themselves the best chance of success. The league can fix this if they want to.

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13 days

The league was rigged for the 2018 Charlotte Hornets

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Sravan

14 days

Teams with highest FT Differential, since 1996-97 NBA Season

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3 years

I have no problem with this no-call

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6 months

Taurean Prince's 3PT% on corner 3s: 2016-17: 34.1% 2017-18: 48.0% 2018-19: 41.3% 2019-20: 33.1% 2020-21: 52.3% 2021-22: 44.6% 2022-23: 43.2% 2023-24: 16.0% Career: 40.6% Yeah, that'll course correct.

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3 years

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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1 year

Lakers fans, join me in congratulating Jaren Jackson Jr. for winning this year’s Defensive Player of the Year award! Pic by @PowChrisol

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4 years

Rondo | Caruso | LeBron | Kuz | Morris played 8.5 minutes tonight: Shot 14/16 Hit 5/5 3s Hit 2/2 FTs Had 6 steals Had 2 ORebs Had 1 Block +21

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1 year

AD and LeBron are going to EAT in the post if they face Sacramento

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2 years

Siri, show me negative basketball IQ

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3 years

LOL Bam c'mon man play basketball

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4 years

If you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. True happiness comes from Alex Caruso playing 25+ minutes per game, not from someone else.

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1 year

Someone pass to Malik please

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4 years

This Lakers season I’m thankful for: - Caruso getting a real chance - Howard gracefully accepting a new role for his standards - AD’s defense - LeBron James. Period. - Kuzma slowly recovering from his slow start to growing into a legit option - Health Am I missing anything big?

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18 days

LA's organized offense rates today by quarter: Q1: 67% 🔥🔥 Q2: 55% 🔥 Q3: 45% ❄️❄️ Q4: 39% ❄️❄️ Overall: 51% The offense fell apart in the second half for a reason. This one's on the playcalling.

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Crowder contests Kuzma's shot, then smacks him in the face afterwards in a separate motion

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Cranjis McBasketball

4 years

Tyler Herro is -30 in the 1st half of tonight's game. In 18 minutes played. When was the last time someone was -30 or worse in a half in 18 or fewer minutes played??

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Cranjis McBasketball

4 years

Woj blocked me for this tweet after he announced that Caruso was headed back to LA. It’s poetry that Caruso ended up starting in the closeout game to win the finals.

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Cranjis McBasketball

5 years

@wojespn LOCK IN THE TITLE

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5 months

Taurean Prince is at 36% from 3 on the season. He's at 41% over the last 10 games.

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1 year

If you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy taken. Happiness doesn’t come from relationships, it comes from rooting for an NBA team that doesn’t use 3-guard lineups.

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Let’s get out of this series as soon as possible. Crowder and CP3 are out here trying to injure people.

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

Russ says things as if we don’t have film of him playing basketball and data to count stuff. We can go fact check these my guy.

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Cranjis McBasketball

15 days

LA ran 8 plays in a row to start Q3 and got 13 points from that organized offense. 1.63 points per possession. 1.57 expected PPP. 8 of the next 10 plays they freelanced. 7 of those 8 plays were turnovers or heavily contested shots. They scored once total. 0.20 PPP. 0.54 ePPP.

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Dave McMenamin

16 days

Anthony Davis: "We have stretches where we don't know what we're doing on both ends of the floor ... Just got to get it right on Thursday [in Game 3]."

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Cranjis McBasketball

4 years

The Lakers didn't miss a single shot at the rim in the 2nd half tonight

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Cranjis McBasketball

6 months

Max Christie had 9 deflections against the Clippers yesterday. That’s the most deflections in a game any player in the NBA has had this season. He did it in 21 minutes.

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Cranjis McBasketball

11 months

Y’all HATED Marc Gasol man don’t try to rewrite that lol I was one of few on Marc island for the spacing and how it enabled AD & Bron & others. He had holes but the synergy of the skill fit rocked and overcame that overall.

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

2028 Lakers are going to be FUN Starting Lineup PG: Bronny James SG: Avery Bradley SF: Current 13 year old LA will draft with the 2027 pick PF: LeAARP James C: Tall relative of Kurt Rambis

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3 years

Ah yes, I remember beating the unprepared high school teams with this press

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6 months

The Lakers 3PT% on the season Before today: 30.4% After today: 34.0%

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8 months

The league is in trouble when LeBron gets his 3-point shooting back this season. His 3PT Shot Making (difficulty-adjusted shooting) @The_BBall_Index Season Grades: 2016-17: A- 2017-18: A 2018-19: B+ 2019-20: A- 2020-21: A- 2021-22: A 2022-23: F

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4 years

Breaking down this game film is therapeutic. LA will be alright.

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4 years

The Lakers could use a Trey Burke kind of guy...

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Cranjis McBasketball

21 days

🧵: Denver has the #1 post up offense both by volume & efficiency. So I logged all 800+ Nikola Jokic post up scoring possessions this year to see how he and Denver fared based on defensive approach. There are very clearly right and wrong answers to defending him.

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

I am a: ⚪️ Man ⚪️ Woman 🔘 Lakers fan Seeking a(n): ⚪️ Man ⚪️ Woman 🔘 Injury report that looks like this for once

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3 years

There's absolutely no one behind Crowder on this play as he speeds up slightly, changes his running angle to be directly behind AD, then: - Steps on AD's foot, - Pushes AD in the lower back with his left hand, and - Swipes at AD's right ankle with his right hand

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3 years

The fact the Lakers offered Schröder 4/84 earlier in the year still makes me uneasy

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3 years

You prioritize extending Caruso over Kuz if you’re the Lakers and it shouldn’t be a tough call, barring Kuz taking a leap this season.

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17 days

Denver's organized offense % by quarter: Q1: 68% Q2: 68% Q3: 67% Q4: 67% The Lakers' % by quarter: Q1: 67% Q2: 55% Q3: 45% Q4: 39% Guess which team tracks this and which doesn't.

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Cranjis McBasketball

17 days

Without tracking all teams I wouldn't know how they stack up vs the rest of the league. Denver was at 67% last night, for comparison. That would've ranked 2nd highest on the season if the Lakers had done it. They're losing the scheme arms race in the dumbest way possible.

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LA's half court organized offense rates today: Q1: 55% (my target % for games in regular season) Q2: 77% (best Q in series) Q3: 50% (full season average %) Q4: 71% (4th best Q in series) Overall: 63% (4th best on season)

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

He was an All-NBA defender last season by our defensive LEBRON impact metric and y’all laughed because he was a Laker

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Fred Katz

2 years

Alex Caruso has been the best perimeter defender in the NBA this season and my goodness is it showing tonight.

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6 months

Every Rui touch he misses a wide open teammate and then hits the hardest shot in the world

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3 years

So... His off screen usage (pin downs & whatnot) this season ranked 2nd lowest of his past 7 seasons at 13.5% of his scoring. Not close to Allen/Redick territory. His P&R usage has never been higher in his career than it was this past season. Is this just low self awareness?

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Farbod Esnaashari

3 years

Paul George on his struggles in Doc Rivers' system: "Doc was trying to play me as a Ray Allen or a JJ Redick, all pin-downs. I can do it, but that ain't my game. I need some flow, I need some mixes of some pick-and-roll, and post ups...That last season was hard." @SHOsports

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3 years

In preseason game 1, look at all these dudes helping each other out and rotating to negate an advantage. This Lakers defense is going to be really good.

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2 years

Via a Lakers team source, I’m told to expect Reaves > Bradley in minutes the rest of the way this year

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1 year

Reaves went 2/2 on middies, drew a SF, hit a pull-up 3, and dropped JJJ for a scoop layup vs drop coverage all in Q4. He's destroyed drop this season. Did Memphis not scout him?

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5 months

Taurean Prince is now up to 44% 3-point shooting over the last 7 games. 39% over the last 8 games.

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3 years

What's happening here?

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1 year

GREAT job by Lonnie making the most of his opportunity tonight

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18 days

Nuggets fans think we're scared of their stars. Buddy we're scared Darvin will forget to call plays again 😂

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Brad

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@Tim_NBA Which means they’ll go away from it in the second half 😬

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4 years

LeBron James and Anthony Davis have been in 7 Laker 3-man lineups that’ve played 100+ possessions together. All 7 are positive, but here’s how they fare in luck-adjusted net rating based on the 3rd man: +23: Caruso +18: Kuzma +18: Howard +12: Green +12: Bradley +8: McGee +5: KCP

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3 months

Max Christie is up to 46% on spot up 3s this season and 42% for his career

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3 months

Lakers team 3PT% for games within each month this season: OCT: 29.2% NOV: 35.1% DEC: 38.3% JAN: 38.3% FEB: 38.9% Last 15 games: 39.8% (5th best in NBA)

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1 year

This LA defensive film

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3 years

Go get vaccinated, LeBron

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6 months

Hot damn, Max Christie had NINE deflections yesterday. In 21 minutes. That’s a high for any Laker any game this year. Cam had 5 Austin had 5 🥲

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3 years

This is a hell of a high IQ seal assist from Marc Gasol

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17 days

This is important. He or Vando back enables LA to not play those Prince at PF minutes at all while still getting lots of Rui starter minutes.

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7 months

Jaxson Hayes' passing has been the biggest surprise for me this preseason. He's been an awesome ball mover. This is filthy

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1 year

So far in the playoffs, Denver has the: 3rd worst transition defense 3rd worst ball screen defense How well LA can attack in those two areas will be key. They'll certainly look for volume in each.

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Cranjis McBasketball

4 years

That unstoppable 31.1% 🤤😤🥵 (Ranked 46th of 69 guys last year who shot 100+ pull up 3s)

@gswchris

Chris Montano

4 years

Kevin Durant pulling up from 3 is unstoppable

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Cranjis McBasketball

1 year

This is 100% legal

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Ryan James

1 year

Come on man. What is this? I know travel rules are relaxed but damn….

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4 months

4-2 over the last 6 games with wins over the Clippers, Thunder, and Mavs isn't so bad!

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11 days

83% organized offense rate in Q4 so far

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1 year

Foul or no foul? Nothing was called

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11 days

I've logged over 15,000 half court plays from the Lakers over the past 2 seasons and what we saw today was the most they've purposefully and successfully spammed sets and actions that were working over that entire stretch

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5 months

The Lakers are now 12-4 in games this season where they have fewer than 4 rotation players missing due to injury

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

Given that Nunn's healthy & looking good, Reaves is clearly ready for a breakout year, Schröder was added as depth, & the scheme is looking this legit, I 100% think that Pacers trade makes this team a contender if healthy.

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3 months

Dinwiddie is a smart dude. He's quickly learned LA's playbook and has been involved in a ton of sets tonight and done his job.

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3 months

The Lakers just played the toughest two games left on their schedule and won both. They have the 15th easiest schedule the rest of this season, after ranking 4th hardest up to now.

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Cranjis McBasketball

5 months

HAHAHA LOOK AT THE RIM This is the Q2 Lakers offense

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5 months

The Lakers Q3 shot chart LMAOOO

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1 year

It stinks to go down 1-0, but we saw LA made some smart adjustments that had success and were good process. Adjustments I'm annoyed weren't made earlier, but adjustments that should still carry over moving forward.

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Sexy offense takes time

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Wow. I missed this live, but Schröder is literally trying to explain to Drummond mid-play where he should be rotating. Drummond leaves Looney open under the rim as he receives the direction, which continues after the play as LeBron starts looking visibly frustrated. Timeout.

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3 months

Golden State shot 63% on their 3s with Vando off-court and 31% with him on-court

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4 months

Wood and Christie really shouldn't have been benched the way they were

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Montrezl Harrell was the ball handler for 37 inverted ball screens this past season. The Clippers got 43 points off of those. It'll be a small part of his game, but Harrell's handle allows you to occasionally pull out a play like this and get an easy bucket:

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1 year

In case any Lakers fan is curious, Sacramento has an atrocious post defense, poor big man depth, and Sabonis has the 2nd highest Foul Trouble % rate in the NBA

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

LA got the #1 guy on my Wing Stopper list. Huge move for LA. And at the exact price tag we predicted 😉

@ShamsCharania

Shams Charania

3 years

Wes Matthews is signing a one-year, $3.6M deal with the LA Lakers, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium .

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Um, excuse me. What is this and what has it done with the BS Lakers half-court offense we're used to? Nice veer action P&R -> pin for Ellington, who's *that* guy as an off-screen shooter

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

“A” GRADE OFFENSIVE OPTIMIZATION RATING COME ON DOWN

@TheSteinLine

Marc Stein

3 years

The Lakers have interviewed former Wizards coach Scott Brooks for a potential spot on Frank Vogel's staff, league sources say. @espn reported last week that former Knicks and Grizzlies coach David Fizdale would soon join the Lakers after Jason Kidd's departure to coach Dallas.

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Cranjis McBasketball

2 years

Mrs. McBasketball, coming soon

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2 years

Stan Johnson’s minutes in LA’s recent: Wins: 24, 19, 20, 23 Losses: 13, 11, 13, 16 He has 21 impactful ones so far tonight. From a source, the reason the coaching staff hasn’t played him more minutes boiled down to: other guys have been on the roster longer. No joke. 🥴🥴🥴

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Cranjis McBasketball

5 months

We need to have a serious conversation about Christie starting again even with LA as healthy as they are right now. He brings a balance of the following skills to the lineup: - 3pt shooting - Middy excellence - Ball moving - Cutting & IQ - On-ball defense - Rebounding

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

TEN AD has fallen 10 times in today's game

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24 days

Have we won the trade yet?

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10 months

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4 years

It’s insane how easily LA is taking Harden out of entire possessions if you get the ball out of his hands 1 time. Get him to pass once and he’ll just stand by half court.

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Cranjis McBasketball

1 year

Hahahahaha holy crap just found a fun Jamal Murray quirk that's incredibly exploitable Verifying now with a full film review

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Cranjis McBasketball

10 months

It’d be neat if the NBA let players decide which teams to play for at the end of contracts. We can call it “free agency.”

@flasportsbuzz

Barry Jackson

10 months

News: Regarding report about message to non Heat teams, Lillard's agent, Aaron Goodwin, tells me: "I do what I should for my client. Some teams I did call. Other teams have called me. It's a respectful relationship with most teams. Truthfully, he wants to play in Miami. Period."

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4 years

We need a LeBron game tonight. Mamba jerseys, down 0-1, can hunt whatever matchup he wants, and faces no rim protection as long as LA has someone in the opposite dunker spot.

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Cranjis McBasketball

3 years

Here's some data on "washed" Marc Gasol from his @The_BBall_Index Player Profile. Good luck, league

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1 year

I'm so angry with this coaching

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4 years

Morris family ( @The_BBall_Index talent grade) picture

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LA's organized offense rates: Q1: 83% Q2: 68% Q3: 50% Q4: 53% The frequency really dropped off in the second half and you could see it.

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1 year

Was Malone asked about the Rui thing repeatedly or is he just very online? Some of these quotes from him are hilarious.

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1 year

Film work complete. We’re good. Lakers in 6.

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16 days

The Lakers haven't run a freelance play this half

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