Following rumors surrounding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, NBA Twitter reacts to Lakers’ free…
Following rumors surrounding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, the Lakers are a team to watch this offseason.
On Day 1 of free agency, the Lakers managed to land three players in Los Angeles. Lonnie Walker IV agreed to a one-year deal, Troy Brown signed a minimum deal, and center Damian Jones agreed to a two-year deal with the purple and gold.
At the same time, according to reports from Brian Windhorst, the Lakers could potentially be a landing spot for KD and Irving — if they were to be traded together.
As expected, NBA Twitter had a few things to say about the Lakers’ moves so far this offseason.
Lakers could sign prime Michael Jordan and someone on Twitter would be like “but he only shoots 32% from 3. He gambles and smokes cigars. He’s not serious about winning.” 😂
— Laker Central 🎙🎧🎥📝 (@LakerCentral365) June 30, 2022
Lakers not running in the old-timers league anymore!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Jason Maples (@JJMaples55_MST) June 30, 2022
Lakers fans explaining how KD & Kyrie turned into Troy Brown and Lonnie Walker pic.twitter.com/u0LMizqGmx
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) June 30, 2022
Lakers rounding out their roster with athleticism and youth. Something that was much needed.
— LAKERFANATICS (@LAKERFANATICS) June 30, 2022
The Lakers clearly got the message: sign younger players.
🔥🔥🔥
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) June 30, 2022
Lonnie Walker and Troy Brown both check boxes as younger players but LA still lacks size on the wing. For both, their shooting might be just good enough to keep defenses honest, and maybe that's all LA is focusing on
— Trevor Lane (@Trevor_Lane) June 30, 2022
And my other favorite annual tradition this week: Lakers fans thinking they’re going to somehow have 5 all star starters and be set up to go 82-0. I hate to break it to you but you’re not getting KD/Kyrie because you have zero real trade assets
— Ronnie 2K 2K22 (@Ronnie2K) June 30, 2022
The Lakers are now heavy favorites to acquire Kyrie Irving on @DraftKings:
Lakers = +100
Nets = +450
Mavericks = +450— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 30, 2022
Lonnie doesn’t deserve the hate he’s about to get from Lakers fans
— Ke 🔑 (@KeReturns) June 30, 2022
Lakers getting some youth and defense infused into their roster.
▫️Damian Jones, 27 years old
▫️Lonnie Walker IV, 23 years old
▫️Troy Brown Jr., 22 years oldAttractive spot with lots of minutes available to play alongside LeBron, AD, and possibly Kyrie. pic.twitter.com/14rNaocbk8
— ProCity Hoops (@ProCityHoops) June 30, 2022
Your 2022-23 Los Angeles Lakers (for now). pic.twitter.com/6TqIXJOq46
— HoopsHype (@hoopshype) June 30, 2022
The Los Angeles Lakers, however, are working on signing Irving, Durant or both of them together, should that option be available.
After taking a deep breath, Windhorst reported on ESPN that the Lakers could potentially have a package to trade for both superstars.
Following rumors surrounding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, NBA Twitter reacts to Lakers’ free…
“It has been floated to me,” Windhorst said. “That the Lakers would potentially have a package that you could trade for both of them.”
Windhorst also reported that Irving is now focused on forcing his way to the Lakers in a trade deal focused around Westbrook.
The ESPN reporter claims that besides the Lakers, the Los Angeles Clippers are considering trading for Irving.
Clippers, however, would only trade for Irving should the price become low enough.
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Clippers head coach Ty Lu knows Irving from their Cleveland Cavaliers days.
Although things did not end well after Irving left Cleveland, Windhorst says the two men have made up their differences.
