Windhorst LIVE Reaction😱: Lakers Land Walker Kessler & THREE MORE Signings! 🚨 -Sedano and Kap
Video Overview & Insights
Watch the exact moment ESPN NBA Insider Brian Windhorst is left absolutely stunned live on air as an unprecedented free agency nuke drops on Los Angeles. What started as an analysis of the blockbuster trade for elite rim-protector Walker Kessler quickly turns into an absolute frenzy, as three MORE massive signings break live during the segment!
y'all need to fix the camera on Windy looks blurry af
Windy delivers an instant, high-energy breakdown of how Rob Pelinka turned a post-LeBron offseason into an absolute masterclass—securing Kessler, Collin Sexton, Quentin Grimes, and Sandro Mamukelashvili in a jaw-dropping $131 million spree. How do these four pieces instantly transform the court around Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves? Is this suddenly the deepest roster in basketball? Windy weighs in on what this means for JJ Redick's squad and whether the Purple & Gold just became the championship favorites.
Drop your thoughts in the comments below: Rate this $131M live-wire haul on a scale of 1-10! 👇
32 mill f 2 1st round picks for the sheriff wtf wow
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I actually like the move. Luka is going to feed Walker.
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Kap doesn’t know 💩 about basketball but its really a gap year for the lakers than 27/28 has to be a real a real contending year because thats luka last year before he can opt out
@jamalj1Your left and right camera is 4K. Your windy cam is 480... WTF?
@jeffvansloten1897Where will Bronny James will be next year 🤔
@JorgeVargas-w7xStephen A Smith is a major hypocrite and a huge racist
@DanielGreycloudLakers Management are idiots , Rob doesnt have a clue what he is doing. They will not win anything for the next 10 years and everyone is getting excited about a bunch of no defense playing players lol
@sixone2256Maybe trade laravia but they keep Ayton That's an interesting front court i like hachimura still for lakers i definitely keep Vanderbilt.\nBut with cap space , we'll see what they do
@NFFlSTLWindy is the best, most knowledgeable analyst around. Real knowledge and doesn’t just try to be the biggest personality like Steven A. and others.
@DavidStearn-n3r"Do you think fans will accept 'they're on the road?'" Answer is heck no. No. Only the Lakers can make tons of dramatic moves and not get even an inch better. I can't stand watching "stars" who think they're too good to learn defense. Apparently the Lakers don't have the same feeling. I'm out.
@sabledawnAR is the oldest player in the Lakers as of the moment. If Lebron is willing to get 6-7M they can still wave and stretch Vando.
@cyanstar19The Clippers got Dick. 😂 good job INDEED Lindsay! 😂
@Mister__Clippers got Dic and the wolf got Ball, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JheronKarlLoquiasI think those 2 pick swap of the lakers will be traded to different draft year,
@JheronKarlLoquiasLakers should have made Rui a top priority! They blew it. Most consistent role player in the league. Now it's the Slow Lakeshow. SLowtime.
Karmically, I'm excited for the Kobe Fanbois to finally get their wish and get rid of LeBron, so they can see how much the team sucks without him!🤣No actual leadership now. Just spicy mayo! Luka is kinda like Larry Bird, he's gonna be disrespected they got him a melanin-free Center! If they get to the 1st round of the playoffs, that's their ceiling out West.
Sign n trade austin for jaylen brown woulda been crazy
@YoungKalifornia1Grimes is not smart’s replacement he has Labrose and that is not good
@gavinbarragan24194:24 great job lindsey (slow clap)
Just do your job and stop thinking about D all the time ffs
C grade? More proof that wendy doesn't actually watch the NBA. Mamu is a better all-round player than Rui. Mamu rebounds, better at punishing closeouts because of better handles, better quick and decisive decision making, and he is bigger so can guard centers.
@al7475Lakers got WAY BETTER .. we lost lebron and rui .. but we got way deep .. best player last yr off the bench was luke averaged 9pts .. we stunk last yr off the bench
@mattmeni4477Lebron and his media fanbois circus was the biggest locker room disaster in the history of professional sports. He was never worth that kind of distraction. The amount of animosity he and his clowns caused absolutely had to wreck the teams chemistry.
This team right here will go win a championship in a couple seasons.
I've been a Lakers fan since 1969.
I wasn't a fan of LeBron since he was a team hopper that took zero accountability for anything. He's a great player though: even though, the analytics tell us that he had a negative effect on the court.
I want to move forward. We don't need a farewell tour that will distract us from winning games and from building team chemistry.
I like this acquisition!! Now we need to ge rid of "TRUST FUND KID BRONNY"!!!! GOOD RIDDANCE LEDIVA"!!!!!!🫡👍👍👍
@BigDinPARob pelinka is a disgrace
@UROCKOFFICIAL😮LA Clippers Liars Cheaters
@danieljohns1859😮NBA Boring
@danieljohns1859Mamu is better than Rui easily
@hardknox1917Losing LeBron’s production? How about losing his tragic cone defense? This is why I don’t listen to Windy anymore.
The lakers will clearly be better next season, how is this even a discussion SMH
LeBron and Rich Paul are such liars haha Fu**in snake oil salesmen! We've been hinting and hoping for years he'd take a pay cut so we could build out the roster more but no way every year your paying me max even though I'm already a billionaire and always say "I only want to compete for championships" yet you never sacrificed even 1 dollar.. All the GOATS do this at some point because they really are about winning and know they can take a little less towards there pay then that sets the team up for success so they can put more people around you! But no way! Never! I'm gunna bleed every last drop from these contracts then complain when you don't sign enough people or big names or everyone I tell you to sign to build the team directly in my vision! For all these years you could've took just a little less but him and Rich Paul hold these teams hostage and use all there leverage to get there other clients signed by front offices who don't even want them they just come in a package deal and now your saying "money doesn't matter right now only happiness"? After all these years of never taking a pay cut? Now that your leaving your not worried about money anymore? Sounds like a joke to me 😂 Your mad they didn't ask you to take a pay cut or offer you a contract so you say that you decided to leave us and your also willing to take less to play somewhere else just to not look like a scorned female who didn't get there way and got all emotional! Your bout to be 42 bro we can't let you hold us hostage anymore we have to move on at some point if your not gunna help build a better team then you gotta go and good luck to you cuz wherever you go you ain't beating Spurs, OKC, Miami, Toronto and probably a few other teams so either way it don't even matter! Your not playing for championships with those teams still intact so have fun trying to win a series against them!
@4raxx20Now can they somehow convince the Hawks to take Vanderbilt & Ayton in a sign and trade for Jonathan Kuminga?
@Kal-El-x6eWe looking like the Old Celtics, Jazz, Pacers😮
@champfromla6162It's a team sport. Chemistry... they need to develop chemistry. I won't miss LeBron. Let's see what happens.
@taurusrush420no matter how good each player is...if they cant play as one, they will lose
@Yoh1-1.14-Ibr1Love windy Wednesdays
@serialkiller77Watch out. Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves will be out there to redeem themselves next season. They will wreak havoc on the court. The Lakers will surely go 82-0 in the regular season and 16-0 in the playoffs in the entire 2026-27 NBA Season. 👍👍👍👍
@jeffreypajarillo1111they were building towards a championship every year of and because of lebron, hes a different draw than luka and the big key is losing bron and smart. If luka was serious about winning austin reaves wouldve been third in decisions or traded for brown easy fix, but the lakers are too big headed. terrible moves today, you did not replace the iq nor leadership. luka made it where he did in dallas because of elite coaching , also being allowed to be an offensive engine but wanted kidd gone when his defense and leadership was challenged. This lakers team is equivalent to Donovan's utah squads maybe even worse
@TheMrreese24EspnLA, The Best place for Lebron is playing for the Lakers for the 2026 2027 season.
Lets be honest guys. Both sides Put their pride aside.. lakers need a forward now that lebron left. Lebron will still be very relevant on the lakers. Not miami or the cavs. Warriors is the 2nd best option for him. But lakers is the best. Waive stretch Vando. Free up cap space resign KingJames. Apologize for disrespecting that Man. Hes my 2nd GOAT.
Reaves, luka, lebron, sandro, kessler..
Bench
Sexton, Quentin grimes, Cam Carr, William Kyle, Ayton .
He gets to retire playing w Bronny. I dont believe any team out there better than this, if im King James.
I wish Luca would get one of these Euro bombs. We never heard of and recruit him over here for cheap. There must be somebody in Europe. He knows he played as a pro since he was a teenager.
@contactgeneralemailforpubl3478Rui has the Mid range, 3’s , and Playoffs experience
Mamu has 3’s and used sparingly in his 1st playoff experience
Mamu is a typical European Player just Klieber, a 6’9 who likes to shoot the 3’s
While Rui was taught in GONZAGA on how to be an All Around Basketball Player. His a Midrange but he added a 3’s
LeBum had a younger athletic team when he won the Bubble title. He then blows it up instead of running it back. He also traded or let go of young Laker players in Ball, Hart, Ingram, and Clarkson and 1st rnd picks for Mr Glass. Leaving him with an aging team. If it wasn’t for the undrafted signing of AR. The Lakers were doomed!
@NogoalRobLakers are pathetic. this team will be lucky to win 30 games. what a waste of cash
@bt2084I like this Kessler signing.
@AJC-i7cLeBron ruined LA after the first ring when he made the lakers sign Westbrook. We lost great players and time because of him.
@chrisz968Why aren’t the Lakers ready to move on from Rob Pelinka !?
@YoungWorldTv365It's too hard to pronounce Breanne Whalehorse, let's just call him Lard.
@andrazbester723someone hook windy up with GLP
@mrivc211I think Windy is one of the best reporters at explaining the salary side of team moves. He know so many little details and makes it easy to understand
@nachonachomanIf Bron takes 15 mil with his nee team i will officially burn his Laker jersey and never argue for him again. He could of had a team like this if he wanted to win!!!
@sistocanales7616Rui can shoot. But that’s about it. I wanted the lakers to retain him especially after his performance in the playoffs. But I think Mamu is the overall better player. He is at least average in all aspects of the game.
@undefeatedaj