How do you rebuild the Lakers?

[Kiddlovesnets]

Now its the time to rebuild, 7 games below 0.500 and playoffs are a distant dream.

[Godzuki]

Lakers are going to go on a run of W's and start clickiing. with or without Pau. i'd bet on it. and D Antoni is going to be a genius in the end

[shady6121]

[secund2nun]

No one is taking Kobe's huge contract. Wait for him to expire in 2014. Trade Gasol for nice young players or a decent draft pick. Keep Dwight Howard. Trade Nash only for a nice draft pick or young prospects. Go all out for Lebron in 2014. Build around Lebron/Dwight. That would be a deadly combo.

[miggyme1]

hate to say it but the lakers need to clean house.....id try and trade dwight for brooke lopez.......lets be honest dwight isnt a guy who is gonna LEAD u to the promised land..but he is a great second option......brooke lopez has center height and a center skillset....

everybody currently on the lakers roster besideS kobe id trade for picks.....if they keep dantoni.....prolly try to get YOUNG guys that can run and shoot......nick young,dorrel wright.......lou williams when he comes back.....u gonnA need shooters....something they dont have now...they need a pg.....maybe get the kid from syracuse???????? hell maybe EVEN peyton siva.....pretty solid.....can defend....pass first...so kobe can still get his 50 shots....they need somebody like a fab melo...athletic frontcourt guy who can guard 3's,4's and 5's at times.and id go after greg oden if.....IF.......HES HEALTHY.....JUST TO BE A GARBAGE GUY WHO CAN REBOUND AND DEFEND THE PAINT AND RUN THE FLOOR

[LikeABosh]

[Scoooter]

In the near term there isn't much they can do. Ultimately they are going to have to come to terms with the idea that "Kobe era" however much success you may or may not attribute to it, is just about if not already over. It's all just tweaks and maintenance until a major clean sweep gets them into a genuine rebuild.

Earl Clark should be a nice piece moving forward. Maybe Dwight gets back to his old self next season, and maybe they get Josh Smith. That keeps them competitive for 5 years or so, but Kobe, barring a major shift in mentality, is going to represent an increasingly debilitating coefficient of drag moving forward.

[therammingman]

trade d12 for mcgee and iggy.

trade pau and earl for love

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