With regards to AD not being a true center, he really hated it back then, and he prefers to be a PF, but Darvin Ham back them pushed him to be a center which he tried, and he became more dominant during that time, and for me, that's also the reason why he became a better defender aside from being a good scorer and rebounder as well.

Right now, I still don't consider the Lakers' big problem as solved already despite acquiring Ayton. His history with the Blazers for me is a big thing. The only way for me to say that it's solve is when we see the Lakers with their current roster play in the regular season but for now, they're strong ON PAPER. Smart right now doesn't need to focus on the offense, and he can do where he's the best at it - defending.

Looking on their roster, they can compete against other West teams. I guess lets just see how this goes, and will they really be a better team than they was last season. There isn't that much of a change in their roster, and if I want one change, that's to trade Bronny to other team.

As has been said many times, the current Lakers roster looks good, but only on paper. You correctly pointed out that there will be strong competition in the Western Conference, but I think that the difficulties for the Lakers may come not from other teams, but from themselves. What I mean is that with this roster, they need to try to avoid serious injuries to make it to the playoffs in a fully healthy state.

Yeah right, even those players who are involved to this kind of gambling participation knew the possible sanctions that they may face, they still take the risk. Easy Money as it is if they can go out clean, though if getting caught it means their careers and their names are already ruined, and I see the point of further investigation even if there's no direct involvement of any players but if being proven that they've got someone to participate within their knowledge and affects their performance they should also be subject for the same sanctions.

And they're going to sneak as long as they can because no one can monitor them while they're on the travel going before the game or even at their homes before the match even started. That's why MPJ has said that someone's homies could be reach by just giving them what to bet for and what the actual player can do. Too many things happening behind and that's why some games were questionable, not the entire game though but for some perspective and decisions during the actual games. What if the Lebron - Jr Smith last second play could be one of it? we don't know and we will never know.

Another team buy out was done. The Portland Blazers was bought by Tom Dundon for around $4B!



Will there be a change on how it's managed? but it's said that the Tom's group would like to keep it there, so there were part of the talk or rumor that they want to pull out Blazers out of Portland during this deal but it didn't happen.

Of course, if there is a chance of ownership then there will be some kind of adjustment. As the new owners will have to insert his own people into the Blazers and manage it the way he can. I remember when Balmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion back then. Then he try to overhaul the system, get the best players that he can get his hands and with his money.

So that's what I'm expecting from the Portland team in the next coming years. And obviously they will have to find a way to be competitive. Although Dame is back with them, I don't think that he is the same Lillard we all knew as he has multiple injuries and his body is tearing apart already.

Well that's how business flows in NBA. The future of Blazers became uncertain and it will be handled good if there's new owner would step up then this situation happen.

But hopefully with this new developments happened we could see some great changes on their team. Especially it will be good if the new owner would set a winning mentality and support well their team.

So will see what will be the new things will happen since as of this moment Portland became an exciting team to watch especially with their new players added in their team.

Crazy how even a small market team like the blazers would go for such a high price. They only thing that makes them kind of relevant is the fact that nike is also from Oregon, but that's about it. How does a value of 4 billion hold up against "only" 10 billion that were paid for the lakers some months ago. Are the Lakers actually only worth 2.5x of what the Blazers are? So strange and definitely too much in my opinion.

I hate to say this, but they need to change their head coach. Chauncey Billups has been their coach for multiple seasons already, but haven't seen anything significant happened with the team. I hope that this change of ownership will be the way for the Blazers to change their head coach because... it really is needed if they want to compete.

The Blazers as a roster isn't a playoff-contender team for sure, but changing their coach will be their first step if they want to. Nowadays, tanking isn't guaranteed for a better player anymore. Just look at the Jazz just last season, and the Pistons a few years ago. As for Lillard, he's not the same anymore, and especially with that age, there's a chance that he might not even play 65 games for a whole regular season because of injuries. Sad to see him like that, but that's what happen when you're injury-prone player.