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said Rob was up to something

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With the McGee to Cleveland trade does that open up the possibility to resign Morris for slightly more than Vet's Min, non birds rights? Would like to get Morris back too if we can.
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I THINK it does, but not 100% sure. Marks is saying that after this move we could sign 3 veteran’s minimums and still be $1.3 million under the hard cap. Well I think $1.3 million is more then the difference between minimum and the 20% raise for Morris. So I THINK now we can give Morris essentially a 2 year/$6 million deal (which is still quite low TBH) and then have room for 2 more minimum contracts under the hard cap.

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Helljumper said: ↑

I THINK it does, but not 100% sure. Marks is saying that after this move we could sign 3 veteran’s minimums and still be $1.3 million under the hard cap. Well I think $1.3 million is more then the difference between minimum and the 20% raise for Morris. So I THINK now we can give Morris essentially a 2 year/$6 million deal (which is still quite low TBH) and then have room for 2 more minimum contracts under the hard cap.
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That would be awesome!

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Khmrp said: ↑

MoMo tweeted it, fathorst i think just helped her pile it on
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What's the deal with that guy? Is he still irritated Lebron went to the Lakers? Is he a Cavs fan?

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Helljumper said: ↑

I THINK it does, but not 100% sure. Marks is saying that after this move we could sign 3 veteran’s minimums and still be $1.3 million under the hard cap. Well I think $1.3 million is more then the difference between minimum and the 20% raise for Morris. So I THINK now we can give Morris essentially a 2 year/$6 million deal (which is still quite low TBH) and then have room for 2 more minimum contracts under the hard cap.
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Great move. Rob is teaching a master class right now.

Now if we can get a wing who can play D. Maybe a 3rd string C who's 7 foot and can block a little.

Then BPA, after that.

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Rob's BB IQ:

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Dammit. If only Dwight wasn't an idiot again...

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Dammit. If only Dwight wasn't an idiot again...
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We probably don't get Marc Gasol though if Dwight stayed...perspective.

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We probably don't get Marc Gasol though if Dwight stayed...perspective.
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Ehhh, I think Lakers chose Trezz over Howard but Howard was worried Philly was going to sign another center so he panicked and just signed with the Sixers. Lakers needed more time to move Javale and Dwight didn't wait. I think if Dwight had waited, he'd be a Lakers by now.

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I'd look at: GR3, RHJ, Carroll, Korver for wing options. Try to nab two of them.

Bigs? Thon Maker should be cheap. Fits what I'm looking for there.

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Helljumper is a smart, smart man.

I am all for bringing Kieff in now, he'd provide extra depth from 3 to 5.

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Helljumper is a smart, smart man.

I am all for bringing Kieff in now, he'd provide extra depth from 3 to 5.
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Naw Pelinka is where the brains are at, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what this mad man is doing

This seems to be a better explanation from John Hollinger, which does confirm this gives us the flexibility to bring back Markieff:

Lakers, Cavs, Raptors: So let’s try to explain what happened with the Lakers tonight, and how the Cavaliers and Raptors figured into it.

Hemmed in by the hard cap because they used their full mid-level exception on Montrezl Harrell, as I wrote last night, the Lakers really painted themselves into a corner. All they could do for their last four contracts was sign players for the $1.6 million veteran’s minimum, because any other amount would put them over the hard cap of $138.9 million.

Here’s the problem: The Lakers wanted to sign Marc Gasol to a two-year minimum deal. And as a veteran with at least 10 years of service, Gasol’s contract would count as $2.65 million on a two-year deal. The Lakers’ margins were so tight that it was impossible for them to come up with the extra million.

Well, unless they traded somebody. And in particular, if they traded somebody in a way that not only saved money, but also turned one player into two. By virtue of doing so, they would have one less roster spot to fill and more money to do the filling.

Enter JaVale McGee, who makes $4.2 million this season. The Lakers canvassed the league and found a team in Cleveland that had two fungible, cheap contracts ($1.76 million for both Jordan Bell and Alfonzo McKinnie), and would take on McGee in return for those players and a second-round pick.

Since both players had non-guaranteed deals, there was another technicality. The Lakers will need to guarantee $637,204 of one player’s salary and the entirety of the other, which gives them some in-season flexibility to waive one of these two players and sign a buyout guy. Alternatively, the player they give the small guarantee (likely Bell) could also be waived and stretched for a $212,402 cap charge, allowing the Lakers to sign another player for the $1.6 million minimum in his place.

The other key piece of this is that the Lakers should now be able to re-sign Markieff Morris at a 20% raises on his minimum contract, as a non-Bird free agent. That would get them up to a salary of $2,797,912 to bring Morris back, and as with Gasol above they can offer him a second year with a player option as part of the deal.

After all this, the Lakers will have one open roster spot and about $3.7 million left below the hard cap line, which would give them the leeway to offer another “one-plus-one” two-year minimum deal to a free-agent guard. (The backcourt is looking a bit thin right now). If they waive Bell, as noted above, that’s another spot, but it might not be big enough to allow a “one-plus-one’ two-year minimum.

At the end of all this the Lakers have Gasol instead of McGee, but it cost them a second-round pick and the addition of two back-end bench players that they didn’t really want. But L.A. did preserve just enough flexibility to bring Morris back and sign another guard. The Lakers should also have enough financial wiggle room in-season to fill that last roster spot for the second half of the season.
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Naw Pelinka is where the brains are at, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what this mad man is doing

This seems to be a better explanation from John Hollinger, which does confirm this gives us the flexibility to bring back Markieff:
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Thanks for sharing this helpful explanation.

Rob is proving once again he knows what he's doing. I can't believe some of the stories that were plotted about him last year that he was clueless about the cap. Rob's the man

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Hollinger having to break that down and essentially praise what our FO is doing is so satisfying.

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All these from a man who doesn't know his way around the salary cap.

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Naw Pelinka is where the brains are at, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what this mad man is doing

This seems to be a better explanation from John Hollinger, which does confirm this gives us the flexibility to bring back Markieff:
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Outstanding!

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Reading that was just amazing. Thanks!

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Helljumper said: ↑

Naw Pelinka is where the brains are at, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what this mad man is doing

This seems to be a better explanation from John Hollinger, which does confirm this gives us the flexibility to bring back Markieff:
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Nah Rob probably just stumbled unto this in 2K, he doesnt know the cap

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