2019/20 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

HUGE piece gone. After LBJ and PG resigns with their current teams, we have no one to pursue. He was our contingency plan

 

Deng must be one of the highest paid staff members in the league.

 

Terrible news for Cousins , great news for us , it could trigger a A.D trade faster to the enemy though .

 

That blows. Well Randle's value just rose.

 

Bad news for Boogie. Excellent news for me.

 

Love Love finally standing up for himself. Had teammates literally walk over him and talk ill of him, yet he's remained a professional....Till now! Oh he's definitely on the trade market and the Cavs are imploding.







Btw the Jeff Green stuff is fake beef, but the IT stuff is real.

 

Would have definitely liked to see what the current Twin Towers would have done in the playoffs, no other team would have matched up well.

http://www.lakersnation.com/rob-pel...or-lure-superstar-nba-free-agents/2018/01/26/

 

lol, that's sad. first, he's resorting to name-dropping kuzma in an effort to save face on the russell trade (note he calls it the mozgov trade). then he's completely backtracking on their stated purpose.

i mean, he's right: you can't chase max FAs when there aren't any (he's leaving that part out of his narrative). but the uncertainty of who will and will not be available one year from now is why you don't ignore the present for hypotheticals one year from now.

anyway, george is staying, cousins isn't worth chasing, and lebron's going to houston. so we're looking at cap space rentals in the form of one-year deals (e.g. kcp) or short-term big money deals (e.g., melo type at 2 yrs).

if they do sign players, they should get creative with guarantees on the back end, allowing them to be trade chips as we have to start playing the youngsters.

 

Is the Kevin Love thing real? I mean is there really tension between him and players? Why? What happened? He doesn’t suck.

 

We need a couple solid players. I don’t think we’re gonna be getting any superstars this upcoming deadline or year...

 

yeah, not how i read that at all.

 

I'm in the optimistic camp as well. I completely understand that fans will temper their expectations, so I see nothing wrong in abeer's perspective. But like Real, there is something deep in my bones telling me that its going to work out for us this summer. For example, even with the recent George comments and OKC's success, BDiddy on TNT's "Players Only" said that he has the feeling George is out, regardless. The only thing it would take is a title to keep him there...and George and BDiddy are supposedly tight...so possible insider intel. Also recently Sam Amick of USA Today said that the Laker thing is "very real" but he's still on the fence as to which way George will lean come this summer. So I'm just going to keep my Laker tinted glasses on and hope for the best.

LaBron with George coming in this summer, all while retaining Randle at a Clarkson type price point should be the goal. If we even meet half that standard, I'll take it!

Also its been reported that Dwade and IT were the most vocal in criticizing Love during the team meeting after the OKC route.

 

I’ve always thought the next 3-5 years in the NBA with the Warriors intact would be the same as the early-mid 90s Chicago Bulls. No matter what any team does in terms of roster, they are unlikely to overtake the Warriors.

With the writing on the wall that we are unlikely to get any big name free agents this summer, I don’t hate the idea of signing actual younger (under 30) solid rotational players to fill out what we want to do and bring back our core and develop them to challenge the Warriors when they are In the tail end of their run when curry and Durant are 34 years old and Lonzo/Ingram are 24-25.

If our core came back, we’d need a solid backup PG considering Lonzo hasn’t proved to be durable throughout a entire season, 1 rotational perimeter 3 and D player and a athletic defensive center. With the cap space we had, if it were up to me I would let Lopez and KCP leave. I also wouldn’t be opposed to trading Clarkson for cap space to get one of the guys noted below.

I would target Rodney Hood or Avery Bradley, Marcus Smart, and Clint Capela or Nerlens Noel (depends how much cap space we have left). Bring back Julius and we suddenly have a deep bench who can all grow together. Here’s how we could potentially breakdown the minutes and rotation:

Lonzo (32)/Smart (16)
Hood or Bradley (32) / Smart (16)
Ingram (33) / Hart (15)
Randle (20) / Kuzma (28)
Capela (28) / Randle (15)/ Kuzma (5)

We could bring back Bryant, Zubac, Nance and Caruso to fill out the roster... but in all likelihood would have to trade Nance for a future pick because of lack of playing time.

 

As I read on Ben Rosales timeline , IT for a one year deal would be a signing I would be down with

 

With less than 2 weeks till the trade deadline, teams will start "announcing" that they intend to tank. Don't know what it means for Marc, but Grizz may be potential sellers (ie Tyreke Evans 3.3M and Brandon Wright 6M expiring deals).

 

I think the Lakers should still go for Cousins if we miss out on PG and LBJ. I'd offer a 2 year deal with the 2nd year being a team option. I think it would a good compromise between risk and the money Cousins could potentially make. If we see that he's recovering well, we can lock him in for another year. It would also be good from his point of view as he still has the opportunity to make max money if he recovers well at the end of the 2 year contract.