Oceans 8 is the all female one haha
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Tbf, Iād be better on my own than with you lot 
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What could be more useful than all of us? Surely someone here has useful skills like safecracking?
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You can be behind the scenes in case I need a lawyer. But everyone else is useless.
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Iām super useful!
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Looks like Iāll have to come to terms with mental health issues after Chelsea win a 2nd CL and we have a 2nd straight 8th placed finish.
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Honestly Aussie why are u bothered? Reality is these clubs are just buying trophies. They are competing with like 5 or 6 clubs, the CL is nowhere near as impressive as it was in the 90s and early 00ās. If you have Chelsea mates u can tell them that we laugh about this competition, it aināt real with all the financial doping.
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Yes I know itās all financial doping etc but it still doesnāt make it any easier.
Does it take the gloss off a Lakers Championship for you ? Despite being run like a circus for 5 -6 years you get LBJ as a FA simply because youāre big market ?
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Care to expand on this? Then I can decide if you deserve a place on my team
Not really because we struggled for years and years attracting a top FA. Just cuz ur in a big market doesnāt mean u automatically get any player u want. Mind telling me the last big time FA the Knicks signed? And they are in the biggest market in the world.
It certainly helps though doesnāt it ? You canāt tell me when LBJ was a FA the lakers had a better core to challenge than say Portland or Utah ?
Only because weād built a good foundation. We drafted Russell, Randle, Kuz, Ingram, Lonzo, Josh Hart, Clarkson. 3 of those doods are top notch role players, and a 6th man of the year. 3 have been all stars and 2 of them most improved player of the year. We put ourselves in that position it wasnāt given to us. Also donāt forget the 90s, languished as a mid tier playoff team after Kareem and Magic retired. Only when Jerry west pulled a coup and signed Shaq and then drafted Kobe did we reach the pinnacle again. You simply canāt compare a league with a salary cap to this football shit bruh.
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Iāll believe that when a top free agent gives the Lakers the brush off to stay in Memphis. 
Edit: Remember when the league stepped in to void that Chris Paul trade?! Now that would have been a fun team to watch.
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I can name a ton of FAs that refused usā¦even when we had Kobe. Aldridge in his prime. Paul George, we traded for prime Dwight and he left Kobe. Just cuz ur LA doesnāt mean shit. I mean if that was the case Boston and the Knicks would be signing every good FA and they donāt ever get anyone.
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Ahh the Knicks donāt count. Theyāre cursed with a worse owner than we have. (Youād probably like the podcast Shattered. Itās all about how incompetent the Knicks are. It dives into The Decision and all that. Very good.)
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Ive been involved in some thread diversions but the NBA getting into this one is amongst the most bizarre 
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Stranger than the baklava one?
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Yea weird how we ever got onto Emi Martinez in the baklava thread really.
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Point is you have an advantage is what Iām getting at @BigWeng_4LYFE it isnāt a level playing field.
When was the last time a big FA joined Portland or Utah despite being consistent playoff teams ?
I agree with what youāre saying it is in no way as bad as it is in football though.
In Utahās case they actually got Bogdonovic when the Lakers wanted him because we couldnt afford to pay him 18m a year. If thatās football we cut a check and heās on our team and we are stacked with 3 point shooters. But thereās a salary cap so he went to Utah and heās a reason they had the best record in the entire league this year. Please stop comparing the two sports they arenāt in the same stratosphere my dood.
The Celtics are tied with us as the most successful franchise of all time in the NBA and theyāve only managed one chip in 35 years, meanwhile the smallest market around has 5 or 6, San Antonio. In fact the Spurs have beaten us to several FAās in recent years. The NBA is a different beast.
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