Lakers Plan To Explore Dragic Trade Or Offer Him $20m Per Year In Off-season

I seriously doubt they were planning on offering Dragic the max. But saying they're going to offer Dragic the max puts them in a much better position to negotiate with the Suns. Give him up now or match our 20M a year to keep him, take your pick. In any case having a guy like Dragic on board could help us a lot, if he's telling the media he wants to re-sign with us, we'll have a much better chance of recruiting another top FA. That said you can't trade for Dragic under the impression that we're going to offer him the max & not do it unless he severely underperforms, so we'll offer him the contract if we're able to trade for him. We'll just have to count on the cap going up as much as it sounds like it's going to. If that's the case even at 20M a year Dragic might end up being a bargain.

 

like others have said, hell to the no to Dragic at MAX money. I would quit being a Lakers fan if we did something as stupid as that. Dragic should get NO MORE than $12M.... Kyle Lowry is actually way better than him and he's at $12M...so I would wager that dragic is actually closer to 10M a year...

 

You have to take into account the expected rise in the salary cap in 2016. You have bigs that don't average double digits in any category like Tristan Thompson turning down 11M a year. Guys like Hayward & Parsons getting max or near max contracts. Superstars signing 2 year deals or working an opt out into their contracts for 2016 when they could get 4-5 year deals to protect them from losing a ton of $ due to injury. All because the rumors about the cap in 2016 have the cap rising so much that max contracts might approach 30M a year.

I don't agree that Lowry is a better player than Dragic but I'd definitely take him at 12M a year over Dragic at 20M. But if the cap ends up going up as much as they're expecting it to, 20M in 2 years is going to be like paying a guy 13-14M this season. Not the end of the world by any means.

 

Precisely. Thanks for adding some perspective to that...I'll also add that that Julius will project into a starter; he's on a rookie cost controlled contract; add in the top 5 pick who will be on the same rookie scale contract and who will potentially be starting down the line and you have two of your starters at very cost friendly deals for the next 3-4 years. Oh, and Kobe will be off the books next year; so you still have cap room to add at the very least 1 more max and 1 more starter...

I'm not even consider the bench; Clarkson, Kelly, Tarik, Sacre, Young, and maybe even Ellington coming back and you have a very inexpensive bench.

 

dragic...what for? ignoring dollars, is he really a piece for the future? i am not sold on the fundamental idea in the first place.

 

Bledsoe>Dragic

 

Understood. Although, he's playing in a 3-guard system with Bledsoe and Thomas; he doesn't shoot the ball has much since they're more distributed, he works more off the ball has a spot up shooter; the year that was a statistical outlier happened to be last year when Bledsoe was hurt; he was great last year...unfortunately, in the tough Western Conference, the Suns barely missed the playoffs last year. I don't mind being in the minority on this; I'd do the Dragic deal because the CAP is rising and we could still build a contending roster.

I understand your comparison, though. I looked at Lin's statistics last year and was so excited to have him on board and thought he could develop a nice niche here based upon what I had seen; boy, was I wrong.

 

Whoa whoa...did you just say Dragic is better than Lowry? It's not even close bro. Lowry has been a top 5 PG this year AND last year...dragic has never even been a top 10 Pg ever in his career.

Even WITH the increase in the cap, this is an outrageous amount for Dragic. Lakers are desperate right now, but not THAT desperate. I hope Houston gets him so we never have a shot at overpaying Dragic. Give me a solid rebuild and in a few years with a higher cap, we can make a serious run at some FA's and have 3-4 young guys that are already studs playing on rookie scale contracts...THAT's how you rebuild and reload for another title run.

 

The projected cap for next season is slated to be at 67.4 million per Larry Coon.

The following year it is projected conservatively outlined by the link; grant the link is just a projection and speculative at the very least.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....-salary-caps-under-new-national-tv-contracts/

If there is no 'smoothing' process, and the camp jumps to the projected figure in the link, Dragic would fall in between 13 to 14 million a year; still, some wouldn't even sign at that salary; I would. Either way, we'll see how it plays out...

 

In addition to trodgers statistical comparison to Lin, also keep in mind that Dragic is also an awful defender too. Not a 2-way player.

For the right price (10 million max), I'd be okay with him. Otherwise, let somebody else grab him.

 

Suns wanna trade Isaiah Thomas instead of Goran. They wanna keep Goran and balance the guard heavy team. Lakers should trade Hill and Sacre for Isaiah Thomas and Plumlee. They need a back up PF.

 

yeah, I wanted Thomas over lin this summer. and yes, I would have foregone the 26th pick in the draft for Thomas at 6 per.

 

I'd really like to see Thomas and Jimmy Butler in Purple and Gold next season. IT/Butler/Kobe/Randle/...

Would we become a contender? nope, but it'd be a step in the right direction. Lets make a trade happen.