Ergh! It is just so sad to see that this kind of young players are being put down by the NBA management.
His future is getting broken slowly.
That is one problem with large human like him. Remember Bynum? The same thing happened where he became almost no value for the NBA.
It is also why Duncan is one of the greatest big man. Somehow he made thru giving a team a championship despite his height.
Look at the teams now, they are more eyeing on small forwards and letting them do the job of the centers.
Speed and agility had been the focus ever since the game changed to a 3 point game madness.
The 80's kind of game is now lost. It is just Denver Nuggets who have that kind of play by now.

There is a rule if the player closes up the season I think. Cousins will surely not play this year and he has hurt his legs so much so far that I think whenever he tries to comeback his legs are just using the parts that are not injured and that part gets overused and he injures that part.

So, he will probably rest until next year which will basically means 14-15 months of no decent basketball for him, maybe just practices. That is why Lakers could get that free cash from salary cap but whoever they want to end up signing, it will cost more so I think it is not really for actual salary cap problem but more about luxury tax, say they are already above, if they sign someone minimum that will be at least 3.5 to 5 million, however if they remove 1.75 from that it means salary cap hit will be just 1.75 to 3.5 and that will have much much less luxury tax as well.

I think, Cousins out for the season does not have much of an impact for the Lakers. As long as LeBron and Davis are healthy, the Lakers would be doing fine. With this current situation for the Lakers, it would only mean they are open for a new opportunity that is more beneficial than having Cousins.

Lakers are not a bad team I will agree with that, between rondo/green/lebron/ad/mcgee, they are a good team, mcgee is backed by howard as well so as far as I am concerned they are a good team. However, I feel like they are not gonna be champions because I see at least 3 other teams that could rival them quite easily.

First is rockets, klay will be out all season so warriors are not in my first anymore, Rockets now have westbrook, harden and him have been friends since 10 years old so they know each other and how they play and they are friends, between capela and pj tucker and eric gordon, they will literally have a full team that can rival anyone out there, westbrook and harden can work superb together.

Next is obviously clippers, patrick beverly is known as a beast defender, paul george actually got dpoy votes and Kawhi.. well he is kawhi. Then Warriors, even tho they miss Klay they will still have Curry and on defense draymond and maaaaybe Dlo could help them a bit. That's why I see them as 4th best team so it is gonna be a big challenge for lebron and AD.

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There's no much talk about the Denver Nuggets this season although they've showed great basketball last season because we haven't also heard much talk about Blazers who beat them. People are talking about the LA team which are the Clippers and the Lakers because they made an upgrade of their line up which has now become a championship caliber team.

It's a Curry and Thompson combination, expect that both of them will average at least 20 points PPG in the coming season.
Thompson is well motivated now as he got a max contract for the team and I'm pretty sure that their consistent 3 point shooting will help them win more games again. They were the splash brothers who gave success to the team even before Durant, so I think people have to remember that.

And what do you guys think of D-Lo fitting in Warriors backcourt? He's a great offensive player and real killer from downtown but sometimes there's too much of a good thing and I have worries that Warriors can be that case. All the internet is laughing at Rockets that they are going to need a second ball to accommodate Russell and James, but maybe the same problem considers Dubs?

D'Angelo adds offensive threat as he really has  the same intensity that Curry's bring this team. With a good chemistry between this 3 shooting guards, the outside percentage is really high. It's the players initiatives to be competitive as the same thing they did when they formed the championship caliber team before.

Curry's standing up will be anticipated this coming season. As the West side of the league really upgraded their squad, without KD to help them, he needs to be there and play well to influence his teammates.

Thompson is still in a rehabilitation mode from his injury, and if he will play he will most likely not in a 100% conditioned. I think that GSW will not make it to the finals this season since they are undermanned and without Durant, this team will be beatable.