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Yes, in this scenario, the Trail Blazers actually entertain the Lakers’ advances in putting together a package that would send out Russell Westbrook in exchange for Damian Lillard. It isn’t, and you’ll find out why in a bit. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait… that sounds bad?” A trade of Russell Westbrook for Damian Lillard falls through The NBA can’t know about this.Īdam Silver and the rest of the league get a little curious after LeBron causes a power outage across Southern California with his first dunk of the season and AD pulverizes a fan’s popcorn in the fifth row with a volleyball-spike block in the very same game. They never get injured again in their careers, however, they have a hard time adjusting to hiding their now super-powered strength and agility. LeBron and AD are injected with it, meaning you’d need to hit them with a runaway Mack Truck to induce even the slightest ankle sprain. Kurt Rambis finally uses his shady, shadow GM powers for good, leveraging Jeanie Buss’ global contacts to find a lab that has successfully replicated the serum that turned Steve Rogers into Captain America. We’ve all seen the Avengers movies, right? Well, in this case, it turns out the Super Soldier Serum is real. And although AD has a stigma of being injury-prone attached to him even dating back to his Pelicans days, most of his injuries over the past couple seasons have come from freak accidents involving his lower extremities.

But how can they fix that? It’s been well-documented that LeBron takes care of his body as well as or better than any athlete ever. It’s been said ad nauseam over the past two seasons, but even optimal coaching and roster construction will come up short if LeBron and AD can’t stay healthy.Īnd in each of the past two years, they haven’t. LeBron James and Anthony Davis are injected with the Super Soldier Serum If any of the following happens, I’ll be permanently relocating my predictive powers to Las Vegas and joining LeBron as the country’s newest billionaire. Below, I think I’ve come up with a few of the most optimistic roads that might direct the franchise towards its 18th championship. There are still a number of different paths the organization can take. However, that was probably the easiest part of the offseason for the team. I’d say we are already headed in that direction with the official hiring of head coach Darvin Ham as well as the retention of assistant Phil Handy. Instead, let’s figure out what a best-case scenario for the Lakers ’2022 offseason might look like. Take a look at that article to at least know that things could be much, much worse than what we’ll eventually see by the end of this summer.īut let’s not just wallow in negativity. Last week, I came up with what is undoubtedly the worst-case scenario for the rest of the 2022 offseason for the Los Angeles Lakers.
