{"id":1272372,"date":"2020-11-23T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1272372"},"modified":"2020-11-23T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:10:21","slug":"the-la-lakers-have-clearly-won-the-nba-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/the-la-lakers-have-clearly-won-the-nba-offseason\/","title":{"rendered":"The LA Lakers Have Clearly Won the NBA Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2019, Kawhi Leonard<\/a> essentially held the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> hostage to begin the NBA offseason, limiting what Lakers' GM Rob Pelinka<\/a> could do to bring in players to help the franchise truly compete for a 17th NBA title. And the Lakers still went out and won the title anyway while Leonard and the Clippers couldn't even make it to the Western Conference Finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, the Lakers won with two of the best players in the league in LeBron James<\/a> and Anthony Davis<\/a> but the role players that Pelinka was able to bring in played a huge part in helping LA match the rival Boston Celtics with the most NBA titles in history. Signings like Rajon Rondo, Danny Green, Alex Caruso, and Dwight Howard didn't seem like big deals at the time but certainly paid off as the season progressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, without having to give the rest of the NBA a week-long head start, Pelinka has given LeBron and AD an even stronger supporting cast heading into the 2020-2021 season and clearly made the Lakers the overall winners of this short offseason. And he did it with no future first-round picks to trade and essentially no salary cap space, showing off just how creative he could be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dennis Schroder and Wesley Matthews were great additions to the backcourt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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