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We didn't want Valancunas (he's washed lol), Vucevic his 34 so apparently washed too, now Sabonis who is not even 30 and can get double double almost every game.
But we ended up with Trey, Koloko who aren't going to play in postseason and JAX.Whats wrong with you, people lol
P.S.I don't want Lakers become a new GSW with their small ball b******* and they had either West,Bogut, Zaza,Varejao or Durant all the time

 

Both of the first 2 guys would have required trading rotation players. Sabonis would require Reaves. This is a weird, failed attempt at a victory lap.

 

Sabonis is 40 millions ok forget it,but why he's even in trade rumors Lakers can't afford him unless LeBron will sign minimum

 

You can do anything if you put your mind to it

— Darryl Morey (Probably)

 

i misunderstood jsm's idea initially that sabonis would be traded elsewhere, and that we might benefit from the ensuing kings firesale.

i continue to be skeptical about the lebron paycut (and the implications of being hardcapped at the first apron (instead of the second).

btw, if you want another wing perimeter defender like NAW, keep an eye on nesmith, who might be a salary casualty in indy (who's once again not trading us turner).

 

I posted this earlier, but here is our current cap layout:

Luka 6'7 - (46 m)
Reaves 6'5 - (13.9 m)
Rui 6'8 - (18.3 m)
Lebron 6'9 - (52.6 m PO)
Hayes 6'11 - (UFA)

Gabe 6'2 - (11.5 m)
Bronny 6'2 - (1.95 m)
Goodwin 6'3 - (2.35 m)
Shake 6'5 - (3 m)
Knecht 6'6 - (4 m)
DFS 6'7 - (15.4 m PO)
Vanderbilt 6'8 - (11.6 m)
Kleber 6'10 - (11 m)

TPMLE - (5.7 m)

Total: 191.6 without signing Hayes and using the TPMLE.

The first apron is going to be roughly $195.9 million and the second apron around $207.8 million.

For next season I would do the following (assuming an ideal world):

• Renegotiate DFS' contract to 3y/42m with a PO in the third year starting at 12 m (- 3.4 m from cap)
• Renegotiate Lebron's contract to 3y/150m with a PO in the third year starting at 45 m (- 7.6 m from cap)
• Negotiate Hayes contract around the TPMLE using his early bird rights (+ 6 m)

This would put as at 186.6 million with 13 players and roughly 9.3 million below the first apron. At this point we would have some interesting contracts (around 60 m worth) that we could amalgamate to get a solid piece or two back in:

Rui (18.3 m) EXPIRING
Gabe (11.5 m) EXPIRING
Shake (3 m) EXPIRING
Knecht (4 m)
Vando (11.6 m)
Kleber (11 m) EXPIRING

We could package players to achieve a wide range of contract values: Shake or Knecht get you roughly 3-5m, Kleber or Gabe gets you around 9-12m back, Gabe and Kleber or Rui by himself get you around 18-22 m back. Gabe, Kleber and Shake around 25 million, Gabe/Kleber and Rui around 30m. Rui, Gabe and Shake/Knecht around 35 m. Rui, Gabe and Kleber around 40 m back.

We have the flexibility to trade 3 players and take upwards of 40 m in salary back.

And depending on how well we execute a trade we could still open up access to the full MLE to use which is around 14.1 m (note: we would need to shave off around 4.8 m of salary to use the full MLE which I think is doable in a trade).

We could theoretically add an impact player around 20m by trading Gabe, Kleber and Shake and still open up the MLE at 14.1 m for another impact player.

Luka / Impact Guard (MLE - NAW)
Reaves / Knecht
Lebron / DFS
Rui / Vando
Impact Big (TRADE - Claxton) / Hayes

We would be hard capped at the first apron at this point.

 

LOL that's the Brick I know and love

Goes for a layup up 1 and less than 10 seconds to go. Instead of burning clock he bricks the bunny layup.

Then he fouls the Wolves 3 point shooter who was nowhere close to making it.

Well thanks for actually helping the Lakers for once

 

LOL talk about losing the game. That may be the most unclutch performance of all time. Legendary.

 

Best way that Westbrook can help the Lakers. He owes us.

 

Best way for them to lose in a double overtime

 

That was not a foul. I guess the refs were tired too.

 

LOL

 

Some level of mutual interest between KD and Knicks, Wolves, SA, HOU Heat

 

There was one other time.

He helped us plenty in the second round of the bubble playoffs.

 

Go Dame,go Giannis
May return sooner than expected
April 2, 2025
The Bucks hope Lillard (calf) can return to basketball activities in the next seven to 10 days, Shams Charania reports.

Lillard could return to the floor for the Bucks sooner rather than later after a better-than-expected update on his status Wednesday. The superstar guard has missed the last seven games for Milwaukee due to the blood clot

 

Knicks is interesting. KAT has had a good year, but I wonder if they want to go back to their defensive identity. Is there a KAT for KD structure that makes sense for NY and allows them to go back to more traditional rim-protecting centers?

Wolves might be my favorite to get KD. I could see Ishbia talking himself into Randle and staying "competitive", rather than picks-based packages from other teams. Ant likes KD.

I don't see it with the Spurs. Wemby is awesome but they're still not that close.

Everyone mentions Houston, but I'm not sure I see them doing that. Booker is the one I'm going for if I'm Houston.

The Miami being in the mix for every star stuff needs to die, at least for a little bit. They've had to win 5 in a row to get to 34-41. They're not a 36 year old KD away from being back at the top of the East.

 

still think dallas will end up with KD

either them, or OKC parts with some of their assets to bring him in if they fall short this year

 

houston has a ton of salary (fvv or jalen green) that can be easily let go for a quick ring run, imo. i'm not sure they wouldn't like to be delivered from green, tbh. two birds. and they'd still be in position for contention going forward with thompson/smith/sengun/eason all under contract, imo.

i'll agree with nico harrison's crazy a** on one point--you can't plan for several years from now. you plan for a couple years, maybe three.

thought this was possible until kyrie went down. dallas is too iffy for a vet to join right now, imo.

 

Uhm, not even close

 

i actually think he's right on? same with luka, tbh. and it's not a quota thing, sirron--it's that they just don't look like they should be able to do it.

does everyone realize that luka has scored 70+ points and had a 60/20/10 game? no, he's fat. didn't happen. SGA's 40 point games are more impressive due to...sinew?

anyway, denver sucks outside of jokic, and they continue to be at the top of a tough conference every year. if he was lebron or durant, he would have bolted to join another similarly talented person (or two!), but he didn't, and that's suddenly culturally weird instead of revered.

also, to jwill's point, it sure felt like steph's 50-piece dominated the headlines. and maybe that's because his team won, but i'm not sure if the stats were reversed if the dub would have mattered. and this wasn't stat-padding like booker's b*******. denver needed all those buckets (and apparently one more from their bricklamation project).

anyway, i agree that what jokic is doing is unappreciated, and SGA getting an mvp this year is like malone getting one over mj.