Jordan Hill Discussion: Signing with Pacers

Not a smart play on a contract year unless he's trying to tank his trade value. Who's his dietician? Lamar Odom?

 

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That's just mean.

 

Don't worry Byron, with your crappy coaching, you will be getting that line soon enough. And it won't be a joke.

 

You're not lying on that one...

 

The Jordan Hill anti-booze diet, i feel like we read that one before....

But in all seriousness, I liked the jab at LO (hear he has formed a barnstorming team with Panda's Friend and Emanuel Mundiay).

Ok. Back to Hill. Can we trade him when his value is high? Can we get Brook Lopez for him?

 

I was curious, is there any team willing to trade us a solid cast of players (wings, big guys, whatever) to rent out Jordan Hill for next season? I like Jordan Hill, but I feel we can def get some nice young talents or some solid role players to fill the roster. I like Jordan Hill a lot, but I feel Ed Davis can fill that hustler role at a much cheaper rate than Hill.

 

Agree. Hill looked slow vs. OKC. Kanter looked like a real big man compared to him. I think Hill is a nice piece for someone but he's got more of a stretch 4 feel to him as opposed to a 5. He'd fit alongside a center who plays low block....there are not many of them left in the league. Can't get that much back for a guy on a very cheap $9M deal. More draft picks and filler (or some other team's rookie contract bust/trash).

 

Jordan Hill man.... he's become a jump-shooting big. Not really what we need. To me, he relies on the permiter a bit too much.

 

@therealdeal that's only only plausible option. But if that's the case, why didn't we move him at the deadline? His play since then hasn't warranted better offers.

Cause there's no room for that salary. It limits us in free agency and there's too many bigs here that deserve PT over his nine million dollar a**.

If we go big in draft and guard in FA: Randle, Black, Kelly, Okafor/Towns/WCS, and you could bring back Davis for a much more reasonable deal and he makes a more significant contribution while on the floor. That's 5 bigs. Figure we grab whatever veteran big will take the min for depth, mentoring, and insurance purposes. Makes 6 and paying Hill nearly $10m. Damn the cap jump, that's idiotic.

With a guard draft and big in FA, that doesn't really change things either. Then you're paying a marquee big around $15m to start and Randle will start. Under that scenario Hill might be the first big off the bench, but that's not worth $9m to me. Especially when other moves they've made this summer were to find rotation and backup players for dirt cheap. Going the complete opposite end of the spectrum for Hill of all people doesn't add up.

 

The decision on Hill's deal has to be made by June 29th, which is before free agency begins. My best guess is that this leak is the Lakers starting to put the idea in out there that teams won't have the option to get Hill in free agency this summer, so if they want him they will need to work out a trade.

That said, I don't see anyone biting. Expirings aren't as valuable as they used to be and Hill isn't worth losing $9 million in cap space. I could see the Lakers declining the option and working out a deal that gave him less money per year but more years guaranteed, especially if they can't work something out with Ed Davis.

Without know where they will be drafting though there is no way they can definitively say they are picking up Hill's option right now. It's likely just about leverage, or could even be a rumor that's being leaked by Hill's agent to make him seem more valuable.

 

The FO isn't going to piss away 9 million in cap space and not give themselves the chance to offer the max to someone.

It's most definitely a trade ploy.