Anthony Davis Discussion: Thanks For The Ring AD!!!

Not if that player added costs us our cap to get one of our FA targets.

 

Where you been? And no, we don't want Randle.

 

The only sources I believe are Ramona and Tania...

 

Funny how if youve been following the Laker beat writers throughout this whole process, its been negotiations 101. Initial offer to establish connection, exchange dialogue, give them a number of options, they shop around and return with a counter.

Follow the Wojs and Windys and what you have is a mess and fabricated drama.

 

fatty Windhorst.....nop wants NONE of our guys lol

 

If you have to sacrifice cap room for AD, you do it. Worry about filling the roster up later. Plenty of buy out players will be at the Lakers disposal. Lebron made it to the Finals with scotch tape and JR Smiff. Give him AD and there is a legit shot of the Lakers winning the title THIS year.

 

id take moore but hill is unmovable till hes an expiring

 

As Dr Buss used to say, dont worry, we will figure out a way.

 

Pelicans players signed thru 2020:

AD $27.0M
Jrue Holiday $26.2M signed through 2022.
Solomon Hill $13.4M
E'Twaun Moore $8.7M
Julius Randle $9.1M - player option

I'd take Randle without them asking.
Moore is productive and he could shoot, so I'd take him too.
Hill's contract is pretty bad, but we could try to get rid of it.

Holiday gives me reason to pause.
He's a 3rd tier star getting paid the max for another 3 years.

 

why in the blue hell would you give Solomon Hill 13M plus? That's Kupcrap esque

 

Can’t agree with this (and others who said it) enough. AD is the kind of player where, if you have an opportunity to get him, you just f#&king get him and you figure out the rest later. You don’t hesitate.

 

Woj is clearly up the Pels & Cbags behinds, so the bad contract the Pels choose to push on us won't be Jrue (and that's unfortunate)...



So Hill is the guy that has the worst contract and lets say it's him that gets pushed on us which enables us to keep one of our kiddies...for this example it's BI since reportedly the Pels like Zo...the package to match AD/Hill salary would be KCP (trade kicker activated), Zo, Kuz, Zu, Beas, Lance (of course Zu and Hart could be switched in for Beas or Lance)

Bron: 37.4
AD 27.1
Hill 12.8
DeadDeng: 5
BI: 7.3
Moe: 2.1
Zu: 1.9
Hart: 1.9
Bonga: 1.4
Svi: 1.4
Incomplete roster charge: 2.7
= 101m in team salary (8m in capspace)

A free agent can threaten to leave in free agency and leave his team with nothing or they can leverage their teams to take on a Lakers package featured by BI in a S&t.

Kawhi's 32.7m max can be partially taken into our 8m of cap space...and we'd only need to send out 19.7m in salary to get Kawhi's max then.

BI/Hill's expiring contract can get us Kawhi...we can sweeten the lit for Toronto by adding Hart and some of our remaining kiddies.

The point is, it's still possible to get a max player this summer even if we take on one of the Pels bad contracts, cause all their bad contacts are expiring salaries next year. It's going to need alot of cooperation, but I'm sure some teams would be thrilled in taking on BI as a consolation prize for their prized free agent leaving.

 

We did. 5 trade scenarios where averyone but Bron is available. What else can we do? When NO decides to keep AD or trade him elsewhere, look out for the media spinning it as "our fault". We can only do/offer so much...

 

this. tired of cap space. get the bird in your freaking hand. sort the rest out later. as vash said, none of the contract are even that bad. and given that most FAs are likely staying put or looking elsewhere, i'd rather not have 38 million to spend on more beasleys and stephensons. you can get all the beasleys and stephensons you want for half that cost anyway.

get AD, and use whatever's left to claim the FAs that slip through the cracks and end up taking way less than expected (happens every year). as long as you don't mozdeng, you're fine--even with deals longer than a year.