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Teams have to do what they have to do to land really good players at times, and others have to do what they have to do to land players many consider to be about average.
Aside from Walker Kessler, I think most would say the Los Angeles Lakers didn't really land any great players this summer.
There's still an opportunity for the Lakers to do so, but they lost some decent players and added some decent ones.
While there are questions about the moves the Lakers have made, it's even been a topic within NBA circles.
According to the latest talk, some of their moves have even raised eyebrows by giving out guaranteed deals.
In a summer where most role players, and even some starters, had to either take short deals or accept longer ones without full guarantees, the Lakers raised eyebrows by giving out fully guaranteed four-year deals with player options to three different players in free agency: Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili and Quentin Grimes, John Hollinger of The Athletic wrote.
I don't think the Lakers are one of those teams that really has to do everything possible to land above-average free agents.
The reality is that the Lakers might be the most storied franchise in NBA history, and they play in arguably the greatest city in America.
However, some of those deals did feel like moves that didn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense.
Only time will tell if they were the right or wrong ones.
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