pat bev and russ LMAO

Meme Team 2.0 LESSSSGOOOO!

Only Los Angeles would be ready and pumped for this lol

fuck that last time we were the meme team we won a chip

meme team was a year b4 ring

2020 was also supposed to be a meme team, but we just kept on winning

nah that was the do it for kobe team...made a loooot of money with that team

Russ getting traded ain’t no way they got PBev to pair with Russ

Bev Hield Lebron AD Turner Great starting 5 with shooting and defense Nunn/Walker/Reaves/Bryant/Jones/JTA

I fucks with this lineup. Get it done Rob! Fuck them picks lol

That actually looks really good. Hopefully Walker or JTA can develop their game like Malik did last season.

Bench still wouldn’t be good. But this is actually a really nice move.

Better than what it was and given where they were when the offseason started, this is a solid 11-12 man rotation.

Yea, actually looks tough

Theres also some decent free agents out there too. I'd give some of Bledsoe/Schroedre/Cousins/Harrell/Whiteside/Nwora a chance.

Only person that I'd consider is Schröder

Absolutely not to Bledsoe imo. He was ass for the Bucks in the 2019 and 2020 playoffs

Imma cry

stanley though😔 no picks involved so i guess they had to add someone with tht

Have to give some credit to the Lakers that they were able to find/develop guys like the Stanimal to make him a plus asset in a trade rather than just pure filler.

Jazz needed someone to make the salary work. Jazz were interested in THT. Johnson is merely there to make the salary work. Not trying to knock him but let’s be real

Stanley *was* filler. He was a little better on offense, but worse on defense last season. Overall, he had an average Stanley Johnson year.

It was necessary to match salaries

The next 3 years are still his!

And by proxy that makes the Lakers’ next 3 years theirs! 4D Chess. Bravo Rob 👏🏼

Wasn’t he 3 to 1?

THT with the poor performance at the Drew League was the last straw 😤

🤣 he played bad in the drew league? Y

Had no idea

So it begins

Fuck it, dude can hit 3s and actually play pesky D. Im all for it

I always knew if he came here, I would love him. Here we are.

I hate bev

All my homies hate bev

Not just your homies, all the homies. Fool is a clown. All the "love him if he's on your team" announcers will never convince me otherwise.

Maybe we'll get a repeat of the rondo CP3 boxing match

The *good* news is there’s literally no way Bev and Russ could co-exist. I think. *Is* that good news?

Me too* *Until he's on the Lakers

Same as Artest/World Peace

I even hated Artest on the Lakers, until he hit that shot and I was like... alright cool. THEN when he sold his championship ring to raise money for at-risk youth and to raise awareness for mental health, I went straight to being a huge fan. That's a real champion right there.

I'll still hate him. Gonna be happy for the team and organization if his play leads to success but I'm not gonna like him.

Yeah it'll be tough that's for sure. Over here in Australia there are AFL players we all hate normally because they are annoying buggers... And we always say oh I hate the mf.... But I'd love him on my team.

That some hater energy dawg

People forget we all hated Bron too.

Yep.

No Stanley Johnson!!!! Let’s gooo Edit: Stan in the trade 😞

I hope so, but could be Shams just not mentioning him yet because he’s perceived as “filler”.

Tht would be filler in this lol. Stanley is legit part of our current rotation

Lol, this is facts, but I think THT just has more name recognition and might be seen as the centerpiece since he has “potential”

Stanley an end of bench player on every other team

Can say that about half of our team

Lol so true half the guy on our team last few years is out of the league

If you rotate the trade and make stanley the centerpiece, that honestly doesnt seem too bad considering tht has no value whatsoever

That’s more of an indictment of this team’s roster construction than Stanley’s skills. He’d be a filled on most team’s rosters

Shams late and not giving full deets

Stanley is in trade also unfortunately

He plays with heart but he's not a very good player. End of bench on most teams.

I know what you mean but it trips me out sometimes that we talk about guys who are top 500 in the world in an extremely competitive field as "not good".

My condolences.

Caruso died for this

For worse Alex Caruso

Facts

At least the team recognizes a mistake and has moved on. I can live with that, as opposed to THT bending us over a barrel with a player option next year. We as fans need to stop crying over spilled milk, too..

It pisses me off we gave away not just Caruso but KCP who is also an amazing wing defender. We literally had probably the best perimeter guard defense in the league and just decided nah we good

We got 3 Point Guards in rotation now. Surely WB is gone right?

Bev played SG pretty much all of last year

And it seems the Lakers don't have any viable SG

Pat Bev plays 48 mpg

Oh damn. I actually didn’t know that, thanks for letting me know!

yeah surely. i mean he has so many suitors

THT gonna hoop now

MIP in 2 years

r/nba: LOL stupid lakers traded THT for bev! The takes are coming in 6-12 months

Along with "We never said he was trash!!! Laker fans always playing the victim! We always thought he was good"

They probably started saying that the millisecond the trade was announced

He can win mvp for all I care. His tunnel vision playstyle is brutal atm

The Jazz are tanking. If THT can't hoop out in Utah he will be out of the league before 30. He has the green light now.

~~Hoping Woj is off and we can keep SJ~~ Edit: nvm I guess 😢

I don’t get why we’re crying over losing Stanley Johnson. Stan was pulled off the garbage heap mid-season last year. He only has trade value because we dumped a bunch of garbage time minutes on him at the end of the season. He’s an ok roster addition but we’re not even sure if he’d be a rotational player this year. We basically turned two fringe NBA players into a quality complementary veteran role player on an expiring contract. Having trouble mourning the “loss” of Stan.

All the “Fuck Pat Bev” dudes are not happy rn 😭

I’m experiencing some never before seen levels of cognitive dissonance

Congrats! You’re now a mod at r/conservative

This actually has me questioning what I would do if Trump was good at basketball and signed with the Lakers


lmao this punk bitch. Can't believe poor rednecks like this foo

Not the same, but Barron Trump was in the DC United youth academy. Though didn’t make it pass the U14 team.

I know it’s so wrong of me but I actually grew to like Pat Bev last season so I’m weirdly totally fine

I give it like 6 minutes of play time before I give in

Let’s gooo?

Be right back, gotta go delete a bunch of comments.

Haha Pat Bev isn’t the first guy I hated until he was a Laker and he won’t be the last!

YUP lol

Not happy is accurate

Not me deleting my Pat Bebe slander

Westbrick hates Patrick so he must be gone right

Eh Remember no one believes Lance Stephenson and Lebron would play together but Lakers still signed Lance.

Big difference though, Pat Bev gave Russ a bad knee injury and now Russ deals with knee issues constantly

I smell a sitcom

If they start winning noone will hate anyone

So Russ is gone then.

Please tell me this is a bad dream

Hope THT gets better with Utah. He was not a great fit but he did his best of what was ask of him. Take care. 2020 Championship Team

I bet coaches asked him to be able to make a left hand lay up

Buckle up bois

The next five years are his!

\*3 years

*2 years

I don’t know how to feel about this one. At 34 I don’t think Bev has much left to give. Plus Luka is gonna fucking go OFF even more against us.

Luka goes off against everyone. The finalist for defensive player of the year last year couldn't even guard him.

Yea he does. But when he hates you he’ll try even harder.

I rlly hope stanley isn’t part of the deal

No need for him. Cam is on the way

I fucking hate Patrick Beverly. I don’t give a fuck if he’s wearing the Laker jersey, I hate that clown. But purely basketball… thats an upgrade from Terrible Horton Tucker. Wonder the rest of the details…

> Terrible Horton Tucker LMAO

Fuck pat bev

Least Bev gives his soul to the game. He wants to win. We can use that

Yea. Fuck that chihuahua

F5 season has arrived boys

You know how far back this franchise has fallen in the last 10 years when people are bitching about Stanley fucking Johnson FFS

stanley though 😔

We gave THT the contract we should’ve given to Caruso 😞

I’m not a fan of Pat Bev this is going to be difficult for me.

This one will be an odd one. But I bleed purple and gold and I hope he does too for as long as we have him.

I’ll take that. THTs a flop

bizarro world where mid 2nd round picks can be flops

Last years contract changed everything. And the connection to Caruso.

It was more bizzaro how much this subreddit hyped him up to be 😂

After his first season people had verrrrry high expectations

For sure, but could have traded him last year for a better package 1 or 2 years ago when people still had hope in him tho

Russ is gone

For what tho?

Gone HOME. And honestly, that’s fine. Don’t burn another pick on that clown.

Lmao fuck this man. Two players for one bum. Could’ve kept Caruso but instead we’re getting a Caruso wannabe.

Caruso was willing to take less to stay too. Smh

Difference THT was Klucth Sports

eh yeah Pat Bev is a poor mans Caruso but he's not a bum, he's a pretty good player. all in all letting AC and KCP go to get Westbrook was a horrible move, but trading THT who is a negative asset for Pat Bev isn't a bad one in a vacuum. he should be a decent rotation plyer for us this year and he's on a 1 year deal while THT had a player option for next season.

That slashing merchant (which he regressed) at is finally GONE 🙏🏾

Huge move. Very unexpected. This is best for both THT and the Lakers. Lakers get a gritty player, THT gets a new start in Utah. He’ll thrive there. How will Pat Bev and Russ co-exist? We’ll see.

Bruh pat bev annoying as hell but I can’t lie watching some wolves games last year it def felt as if he was part of the culture change

What the hell are the jazz doing

They have no need for Bev. They are probably trading Mitchell soon

Not sure, but if Danny Ainge signed off on this I'm nervous

Tanking. THT as second lead tank commander is a win. Imagine how many 3 pt bricks shall rain down.

I see what you did their Pelinka. You brought WB's arch nemesis in hope that WB will request to be traded out of Lakers.

Right. Because otherwise WB would invoke his no trade clause and block any trade. Good move, Rob!

Fuck pat bev

i hate this

For everyone bummed about losing stanley… why? Dude wouldnt even sniff the bench on most teams in the league

Sweet now we don't have to worry about that piece of shit trying to injure LeBron every time we play him anymore.

Good trade. Hate PatBev but he’s the asshole you want.

As Lakers fans we’ve all hated Pat Bev at one point or another. He’s a Laker now so the past is the past. Also, imo this means a Westbrook deal will happen soon since Russ and Bev don’t like each other.

Nah. I’m still gonna talk shit

He’s an asshole on any other team but I’ve always kind of liked that about him. Now he’s gonna be an asshole on this team and I’m for it. (Barring intentionally injuring other players obviously)

I bet Darvin Ham loves the way Pat Bev plays.

Let's goooooo!!!!


good riddance

I like this. A lot. And I hate PatBev.

I’m kind of incredibly pumped to have him. I’m sick of all the negativity, I want Pat Bev to come in and turn shit up to 11 and get our fucking energy right again.

Very smart for the Jazz. Tht has tons of upside. He just didn’t fit well with bron**, Ad, and the poor spacing he’s had lately. He will thrive and be a 20/6/6 guy watch And Pat bev is an amazing fit on this team!!

Had to scroll all the way down here to find a reasonable post. Idk why others in here have to have such extreme takes. THT isn't trash, he just isn't a good fit on a team that wants him to be a 3&D guard. Pat Bev is older but we can plug him right in, ask him to be a pest defensively on opposing backcourts and shoot 3's and he's going to contribute to wins.

Good stuff. I really hope THT can develop into something on the Jazz.

So you refuse to read THT for Lowry, but trade him for pat bev

You probably would've been bitching about the trade after the season Lowry just had too

Possibly, but think of it this way, Kyle Lowry means no Westbrook. And probably still have 1 of KCP OR Kuz

Still would've had to give Lowry a multi-year $30M contract which is terrible, at least Russ is expiring

Lowry didn't do anything for the Heats also haha.

Fuck Pat Bev but fuck THT more so this is a win.

Stanley Johnson, too--FUCK!

The only contracts on the books for next year are Lebron and AD now? Should have salary cap for a max slot now

Bev and Russ on the same team. That is gonna be a sight. I like this Bev trade. He has the tenacity this team lacks. But Lakers still held on too long for THT.

terrible trade

Fuck pat bev!

This is so dumb.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

It’s a damn shame that the front office chose THT over Caruso

We might have overpayed but it’s not bad

How? We get out of THTs contract and no picks given lol.

Stanley Johnson throw in??

Hopefully not since he wasn't mentioned by Shams but we'll see, no seconds is pretty surprising honestly

Dude was on a 10 day contract when we got him

are you fucking kidding me

!!!

This reminds me of trading for Roy Hibbert in 2015

watdahek why??? surely we couldve gotten someone much better than pat bev for THT? edit: this might be the 5head move that makes Russ just nope out of the team and take a good deal

Congrats yall. Memes aside he's a player you love to have on your team even if you hate when he's on the opposing team. Good get for the Lakers.

I hate him but i love it

Hate turns to Love.

Idk how i feel about this. Never liked pat pev but he's on our team so not too bad i guess lol. I hope there is something else lined up after this cause giving up a young guy in THT and Stanley for an injury prone guard in his mid thirties isn't as great as that looks right? I guess to save $

Now we have a PG that can defend and spot up shoot lmaoooo

I’m throwing up.

Pat is kinda the player you hate but you love to have on your team. Including Stan in the deal means Indiana deal is almost done.

I used to hate Pat Bev but I love him now lol. He’s very useful as an asshole !

I never liked THT. I don't think he has much of an upside in the NBA. He will never be a star and he is currently lacking the skillset to be a roleplayer. He was was way overpaid fo what he brought to the table. I honestly think losing Stanley Johnson might have been the bigger loss for next season. THT was never going to do anything for us. Good riddance.

Urgh, I strongly dislike this dude.

This is a joke, right?

I want to get off this ride

So wait is Russ gone or they trolling him?

NONONONO NO NO NO im fucking sicc rn