#avery-bradley

#avery-bradley

Stop me if this sounds familiar.Darvin Ham has been given a broken roster, but he isn't making the most of what it can be, either.If that sounds like what we said about Frank Vogel all year last season, it's because that's exactly what he kept saying about Frank Vogel all year last season.Vogel's reliance on veterans who clearly didn't have it anymore like Avery Bradley or not putting promising young players in positions to succeed and thus crushing their value (remember when Talen Horton-Tucker had promise?) made it difficult to put all the blame last year on the front office.

As their postseason run continues, the Los Angeles Lakers have made a decision that if they do win three more rounds of the NBA playoffs and claim their 18th banner, no players' contributions will have been too small to celebrate; not even Patrick Beverley.They will all get championship rings.This is pretty much exactly what we predicted on this site back when Beverley reiterated that both he and Russell Westbrook would want some jewelry if their former team won the title, and TNT sideline reporter Chris Haynes confirmed as much during the network's pregame broadcast on Monday:

"They [Lakers] would extend a championship ring to ALL players who were on the roster at any point during this season."

Professional podcaster and part-time NBA player Patrick Beverley may have said his main goal after being traded by the Lakers was to knock the team out of the NBA playoffs entirely with the Bulls - even after he had already done so much to help with that task during his brickfest of a tenure on the team, it was a task he proved too small for - claimed he had actually demanded a trade after weeks of rumors he wanted to leave even before the Russell Westbrook trade, and then complained that Lakers fans were celebrating his downfall, but he still wants his championship ring if his former team goes all the way to the title.