I was hoping Phil would stay. As soon as he sees rebuilding, he jets. That's why he's so overated as a coach. I was hoping the Lakers would go like 10-72 or something...drop his winning percentage to below .700

But that won't happen. The good news is that Malone will opt out of his contract(obviously to get a bigger one from LA) as well. This leaves the Lakers void of 4 Hall of Famers. Payton is still there, but he'll likely decide to exercise his option and play his 2nd year because he knows he won't get anything near that mid-level exception anywhere else.

So yeah, the Lakers are so doomed.