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

real's right: if the spurs don't think kawhi is there long-term, he's getting traded. in other words, all the 2019 kawhi plans aren't good ones, imo. at that point, he'll be either staying in SA or staying where he was traded to. if you want leonard, make a legit pitch this summer.

and yes, boston has the right pieces: a high pick in this draft or the next one + jaylen brown probably gets SA's attention. we'd probably have to open at ingram/kuzma just to be competitive.

are either of those rosters likely/possible? does philly have enough cash for lebron and redick (no bird rights on redick)? can the lakers afford george, lebron, AND lopez? i mean, without dumping deng, they can't even afford the first two.

 

So that $103M+ projection doesn't look to be a reality anymore. If next season's cap is stuck at 101M (a meager 2M more than this season's 99M cap), then with Deng and Jules cap hold, LA has just over 51M in team salary, meaning Bron & George have to take off roughly 16M from their true max (66M combined) to fit into roughly 50M of our cap space.

Stretching Deng (7.4M vs 18M) gives us roughly 61M in space so Bron/George would only have to "sacrifice" 5M between them.

If George is a knucklehead and would rather stay in OKC, we can turn to Kawhi and boy would that be interesting, since he could very well be the "Love" type piece that we trade for if Bron decides to come to LA to partner up with him. In that case, SA is not too far from Dallas, so would a S&T for Jules along with some picks be enticing enough to get Kawhi here? Per Amick, theres alot of smoke with the cLips creating a Kawhi trade package and part of me thinks that is either SA, Kawhi's camp or Bron's camp using the cLips as leverage for the Lakers to up an offer. But would we rather hold off till 2019 to sign him outright without giving up assets? Would Bron be down to wait a year?

Crazy summer(s) up ahead.

 

maybe george re-signing in okc and lebron going to houston will prompt a lakers trade offer for kawhi?

 

If Kawhi is traded to Boston, I can see Bron wanting out of the east cause Ky, Klaw and Hayward are formidable even if they are all ??? in terms of health.

I still find it extremely difficult for Bron to go to Houston without Cp3 and Bron both agreeing to significant paycuts from their true maxs. But I wouldn't put anything past Morey... It's just this particular feat seems damn near impossible without significant financial help from Bron and Cp3.

With the Boogie injury we lost some our ability for a contigency...But now with Kawhi, a new Kawntingency came out and said hi.

Obviously that's great for the Lakers...The more options the better.

 

Great points here by all, really enjoying the chat.

I brought up the point about Kawhi a few weeks ago, and at the time I asked how would everyone feel if SA agreed to a trade if we offered one of Lonzo or Ingram alongside Kuzma and some picks. To be perfectly honest, I’d send Lonzo over Ingram in the trade 10 times out of 10. I think Ingram has a chance to be a top 10 player in this league, he can facilitate, score, shoot and defend and I don’t believe the facilitating that Lonzo brings to the table - no matter how great - will be enough to outweigh Ingram’s complete game. As an aside, the potential problem of Lonzo’s dad is fixed too.

Truthfully, I can’t see any scenario, where we get a trade done for Kawhi with only a single asset like Kuzma, in fact I think it takes two young studs and two 1sts to get it done.

In my opinion, Kawhi is worth it, he is a top 5 player in the league when he is on and the closest thing to Jordan/Kobe you can get. I’d be sad to lose the young guys, but I think the Klaw is good enough to win a ring by himself with good role players - just like Dirk did - and with a running mate, I think he is good enough for multiple rings.

If we get a trade for Kawhi done, I think we become THE destination for Lebron and at that point we compete immediately with Hou and GSW.

My plan of attack would be to offer Lonzo, Kuzma, Deng, two 1sts and a 2nd for Kawhi and one of Green or Gay to match salaries. If we could get that done, our guaranteed salary would be just a touch under 48m including the cap hold for Randle while keeping Zubac, Bryant and Ennis. At that point I would immediately offer Lopez 15m and sit down with Lebron and max him at 35m leaving us at a total of 98m or so. I would then go and sign Randle to his 15-17m, leaving us at 110m or so. We could sign someone like IT to the MLE and have space to bring on two ring chasers for the vet min. Through out this process I’d make sure we stay under the tax apron of 122m. The end team would be something like:

Ingram (5.8m) / MLE (8.5m) / Ennis (1.7m)
Green (10m) / Hart (1.7m) / Vet Min (2.4m)
Kawhi (20m) / Vet Min (2.4m)
LeBron (35m) / Randle (15m)
Lopez (15m) / Zubac (1.5m) / Bryant (1.4m)

I think we convince Lebron when we explain we have Kawhi, Ingram, Green & Lopez on the books - guaranteed, and as soon as he signs we move on to locking in Randle and another solid player to the MLE. It’s a team we could keep for 3 years and compete right away. Once Lebron, Lopez and Green all fade into the rear view over the next 3 years, we still have Kawhi in his prime at 29, Ingram at 24, Hart and Randle at 27 and potentially space for another big FA to join them. So we’re set up to compete currently and post Lebron.

With LeBron, Ingram can excel with his transition to PG and we’d have great shooters around them in Green, Lopez and Kawhi. We could continue to employ our switch 1-4 defence and ice the PnR towards the base line to protect Lopez as much as possible. We could be a really great defensive team with Ingram, Green, Kawhi, Hart on the wings, Randle switching well and as we all know Lopez can guard the rim if he doesn’t need to move his feet a lot. We could sign someone like IT to the MLE as an explosive 6th man and ask him to run that PnR with Randle that was so deadly.

This would be the ultimate dream scenario for me for the offseason.

 

Going on from the above, why do spurs do it? If they are going to trade Kawhi, and knowing how good they are at drafting, they can look at the opportunity as 5 potential young players in Lonzo, Kuzma, two 1sts and a 2nd, for the cost of taking on Deng for 2 years. If they wanted to go a full rebuild, they could trade Aldridge for additional 1sts and tank (with Deng and Pau as their tank commanders) for one year, get a high draft pick of their own and effectively rebuild their whole roster in the space of a year, setting up a whole new potential dynasty.

Why go for Kawhi instead of PG? Apart from Kawhi clearly being the better player, PG's max is much higher and we couldn't sign Lopez/Randle in that scenario unless we used young assets to get rid of Deng. Even at that point, it would be only resigning one of Lopez and Randle.

What happens if PG resigns with OKC and we do nothing and hope to sign Lebron? Chances are if Lebron wants to seriously compete, he goes to Philly because - like it or not - Embid, Simmons, Covington, Saric and Fultz are better than Randle, Ingram, Hart, Kuzma and Lonzo. They have two players that could be top 5 talent in the future.

Like Vas said, crazy summer ahead!

 

Stop crushing our dreams SVTZR

 

to be clear, i thought it would take kuz AND ingram.

 

Crushing dreams? I just outlined how to get Ingram, Kawhi, Lebron, Randle and Lopez all on one team with Danny Green, Isaiah Thomas, Josh Hart making up the 6th, 7th and 8th best players on the squad. What more dream building can I do Kareem?!?