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GM G1n Hints at Moves

We caught up with the Lakers GM this week to ask him how he's enjoying the new position and the rookie General Manager turned out to be even more settled than anyone could have anticipated.

"There has certainly been an adjustment period for me with all this NBA salary cap stuff, but I'm rapidly getting caught up to speed on concepts like trade exceptions and Bird Rights." GM G1n laughs and shakes his head. "This is complicated stuff sometimes and there's really nothing quite like it in the business world.

Of course, the chatter quickly turned to the roster and G1n had some important rumors to drop as his eyes lit up talking about the team.

"I think you'll find that we haven't been just sitting on our thumbs, even with the playoffs going on right now. We've been in contact with a large portion of the league, even teams with players playing in this current playoffs."

"What we're super proud of is that we already have some deals in place that make sense for both teams. All of them will pend the approval of the league, but if it all goes right and we can get these deals to go through, we will only have one or two guys on the roster older than 26 after this next season."

"We're going young, but Lakers fans should feel like they're in good hands. We aren't tanking, that just doesn't work in this league the way it's set up unless a truly generational talent is available in the draft. Even so, you have teams going far in the playoffs right now with three or four guys that can be the 'alpha' on any other team. So we're assembling talent. We're not stripping talent and banking on some theoretical future value necessarily. Lakers fans want to win and they don't want to wait five years to do it." GM G1n smiles a winning smile. "They shouldn't have to, so they won't."

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