Los Angeles Lakers: Ranking every post-LeBron James signing of the offseason
By Jason Reed
The Los Angeles Lakers have made plenty of moves after securing the best player on the planet, LeBron James. Here are these moves, ranked.
The Los Angeles Lakers enter the 2018-2019 season with a completely different outlook than the team ended the 2017-2018 season with. Of course, that will happen to a team that secures LeBron James.
After signing James, the Lakers have made a slew of moves. While each move is definitely calculated by the front office with James in mind, they have not met the best reception by the general NBA audience.
Personally, I like that the Lakers have done with this offseason not only for next season but for following years. That does not mean that every signing is perfect, though, and some are definitely better than others.
With the team adding another new name to the list in Michael Beasley recently, here are all the post-LeBron James signings ranked.
5. Re-signing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Quite frankly, not only do I think the Kentavious Caldwell-Pope re-signing is the worst of the offseason, I flat out do not like the move at all.
I get that Caldwell-Pope is a Klutch Sports client, which is the same agency that represents LeBron James. I also get that he is the prototype three and D player that LeBron has always played alongside.
However, $12 million is simply too much to pay for Caldwell-Pope for what he offers to the team. The Lakers could have gone out and got the exact same level of production, if not more, for a cheaper price on the market.
This move is going to leave even a nastier taste in the front office’s mouth as Josh Hart continues to thrive and gets the starting shooting guard spot from Caldwell-Pope. $12 million for a guy that will probably be on the bench come midseason. I get it is just a one-year deal, but that money could have been used so much better.