Pffffft.... Kelly Dweyer.
Every time I see his face next to one of his horrible sports columns I think..."Wow! I didn't know John Belushi survived his drug overdose, and now he's writing basketball blogs in a semi vegetative state! Oh wait, that's just Kelly Dweyer."
Come on, guys. Don't be so hard on Dwyer. I mean, the Lakers KILLED IT in free agency this year, right? And this is a column about who was a winner in free agency. Let's just follow, in Peanut-Brain's own words, exactly what the Lakers did in free agency to earn being winners:
As it stands, for the third season in a row, the Lakers will have lost out in their attempts to convince a superstar free agent to join Bryant and company.
How can you beat that? THREE STRAIGHT YEARS!
they will once again enter a season hoping Kobe doesn’t decide to shoot 25 times at 37 percent while also hoping he’ll finish what could be his last season
See? They've got one of the best players in the game! And they signed him in free agency this year, right?
Where did you think you were going with a 30-year-old LaMarcus Aldridge
I mean, just LOOK at those grapes! They MUST be full of acetic acid! The visual assay can't be wrong on this one, folks.
On top of that, if the Lakers fall out of the top three in the lottery next season, the team’s first-round draft pick goes to Philadelphia. Wouldn’t the whole point of signing an Aldridge basically gift Philly that draft pick? ... You’re going to have to be terrible again in 2015-16.
Free agency is about Maintaining The Awful. This is how all the great big-money we're-going-to-sign-every-big-free-agent teams do it these days. That's why this is such a win. Winning in free agency is about the future.
And the past. Winning in free agency is about the past, too.
Just hope that your ownership group and front office takes this summer as a lesson.
Yes, a lesson that signing nobody is WINNING! Also, TIGER BLOOD!
Mr. Dwyer, what you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent column were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the entire internet is now dumber for having clicked on it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.