The Los Angeles Lakers signed LeBron James this summer and everyone thought, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka knew what they were doing. The D’Angelo Russell trade had folks skeptical, but once the big fish was landed, the two up top drew praise.
Instead of taking advantage of LeBron James committing four years to your franchise and building a sustainable team with one-year deals to recruit over the summer, Magic and Rob chose to try to be the anti-Cleveland. They failed miserably handing out putrid contracts to washed Rajon Rondo and Lance Stephenson.