Dalton

After the game, LeBron James wanted to clarify just how Knecht landed in L.A. "The Lakers didn't 'find' DK, the other 16 teams f***ed it up. Did anybody watch him? S**t! They just didn't f*** it up. You don't 'find' a SEC player of the year."

Lebron with the truth:

It really is a planets aligning thing here. Idiot GMs immediately discount him because of his age, he falls to a team that DESPERATELY needed his exact skillset. That teams happens to have Lebron and AD which provide perfect spacing and a Mount Rushmore player to learn from. That team happens to have a new coach that also was a prolific shooter and knows exactly what Knecht needs to thrive. That team also happens to be the biggest stage in basketball. He provides that team a shot at a deep playoff run immediately and he doesn't have to deal with a garbage roster. 

Couldn't have worked out better.

I don’t think the age thing is crazy. You want elite players hitting their prime when you get a good team. Could DK average more on a terrible team? Yes. The issue you is he does too many elite things right now. Size, shooting and athleticism were there. You could argue ball handling too. He is simply better than those other players. No excuse for him to fall to the Lakers like Smyrna said. Then everything aligned for his player profile. If I replaced DK with Klay Thompson people would be like man the Lakers really might make some noise and create spacing. Those two guys aren’t far from each other this year.

I don't understand the age objection at all. The average NBA career is less than four years. If DK lasted as much as ten years, he would be, what, 33? That's the prime of a pro player's life. From the beginning, you have a player who is more mature in every way, i.e., already well on his way to becoming a polished professional. The fixation on youth means that a team gets a guy with a half-developed game, and personality, so you keep him on your bench for three or four years, then he signs a big contract to play for somebody else just as he starts to be useful to a decent pro team. I don't get why pro GMs seem to think that is a winning proposition.

Lebron announced that he is taking a break from social media subsequent to online negativity following his comments about Dalton last night. His announcement came after he said “everybody on the Internet called me a liar all the time” when he said he was watching Dalton Knecht’s college games last year at Tennessee — long before the Lakers drafted the sharpshooting guard. “And with that said I’ll holla at y’all! Getting off social media for the time being. Y’all take care,” James posted.

www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lebron-james-announces-social-media-hiatus-lakers-star-cites-negativity-online-as-reason-for-logging-off/

I enjoyed keeping up with friends on Facebook, but I mever did Twitter, Instagram or any others. Twitter just seems like a cesspool to me when I see people posting things from it. I do check out Vol Hoops Twitter during the season. That's about it.