Lakers Finally Awarded $4.85 Million Disabled Player Exception For Nash

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/235681/Lakers-Awarded-$485M-Disabled-Player-Exception

No idea why this took so long, but it's good news. I'm assuming this will give us more trade options than the exception we got from Randle. I doubt it, but does anyone know if we can combine the exceptions?

 

We cannot combine both exceptions for 1 player, but we can use both of the exceptions for 2 players as long as their contracts match up with the total. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but thats how I interpreted the rule.

 

1.) You cannot combine any exceptions
2.) You cannot combine the exceptions with players in trades
3.) The DPE can only be used for trade of players in the last year of their deals
4.) The DPE can only be used to sign a FA for the remainder of the season only, no future years can be added
5.) We need an open roster spot to use the DPE, we do not gain one with the exception

 

Current Free Agents

POINT GUARDS
Will Bynum (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Gilbert Arenas (Veteran who knows the Princeton Offense)
Baron Davis (Veteran who knows the Princeton Offense)
Daniel Gibson (Veteran who knows the Princeton Offense)
Toney Douglas
Jonny Flynn
Marquis Teague
Peyton Siva (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Jamaal Tinsley
Rodrigue Beaubois
Acie Law
Dominique Jones
Sergio Rodriguez
Marcus Williams
Eric Maynor
Aaron Craft (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Yuki Togashi (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Mike James
Keyon Dooling
Chris Duhon
Luther Head
Earl Boykins
SHOOTING GUARDS
Ray Allen (Wants to sign with a team in the 2nd half of the season)
Richard Hamilton (Veteran who knows the Princeton Offense)
Delonte West (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Jordan Crawford (Free Agent in March)
Shannon Brown (Waive Ronnie Price for him)
Ricky Davis
Rashad McCants
MarShon Brooks (Free Agent in March)
Marquis Daniels
Kareem Rush
Rudy Fernandez
Daequan Cook
DeShawn Stevenson
Flip Murray
Julius Hodge
Maurice Ager
Morris Almond
Sasha Vujacic
Josh Childress
James Anderson
Quincy Douby
Orlando Johnson
Mardy Collins
Julius Hodge
Maurice Ager
Elliot Williams

SMALL FOWARDS
Michael Beasley (Free Agent in March)
Metta World Peace (Free Agent in March/ Bring back Metta! He knows the Princeton Offense. His best years offensively was in the Princeton.)
Stephen Jackson
Ronnie Brewer
Josh Howard
Corey Maggette
Al Thorton
Carlos Delfino
Kelenna Azubuike
Darius Miles
Bobby Simmons
Quentin Richardson
Mickael Pietrus
Travis Outlaw
Aleksandar Pavlovic
Terrence Williams (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Julian Wright
Jarvis Hayes
Maurice Evans
Bill Walker
Andres Nocioni
Jamario Moon
Sonny Weems
Rodney Carney
Dahntey Jones
Antonie Wright
Lazar Hayward
Joey Graham
Christian Eyenga
Renaldo Balkman

POWER FOWARDS
Lamar Odom
Rashard Lewis
Kenyon Martin (Veteran who knows the Princeton Offense. Can still play D.)
Al Harrington
Tyrus Thomas (Interested in signing more lottery pick busts, Jimmy?)
Yi Jianlian (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Earl Clark (Former Laker who knows a little bit of the Princeton Offense)
Jan Vesely (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Anthony Randolph (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Troy Murphy
Linas Kleiza
Craig Smith
Royce White
Ryan Gomes
Hakim Warrick
Shelden Williams (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Leon Powe
Chris Wilcox
Joe Alexander (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Sean May (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Ike Diogu
Melvin Ely

CENTERS
Andrew Bynum (Didn't play a game for Byron and the Cavs. Does know know the Princeton?)
Emeka Okafor (Wants to sign with a team in the 2nd half of the season)
Andray Blatche (Free Agent in March)
Greg Oden
Jermaine O'Neal
Marcus Camby
Andris Biedrins (Still young. Hasn't been the same since early days with Dubs)
Hasheem Thabeet (Here's a young lottery pick bust, Jimbo)
Byron Mullens
Eddy Curry
Kwame Brown
Fab Melo (Should take a chance on him)
Greg Stiemsma
Daniel Orton
Sean Williams
Mouhamed Sene
Patrick O'Bryant
Erick Dampier
Nenad Krstic
DeSagana Diop
Hilton Armstrong
Johan Petro
Jeremy Tyler

 

This is literally the stupidest NBA rule ever. Not only you have a player out for the most of the season, you have to cut 1 additional player
to sign someone.

So stupid, my brain hurts.

My guess is - there is some even more asinine explanation in spirit of: "If we did allow a roster spot, teams would abuse it by fakingly DPE-ing their players". Classic school "we don't want to watch kids on the playground during the recess, so there are no recesses!" BS.

 

Well, the question is, how bad does the front office truly want to improve a team that is headed to the lottery again. Do they want to add five or six additional, meaningless wins to the record which might pop us out of the top five protected picks and hand our first rounder to the Suns? It's a harsh question, but a harsh reality.

 

Eh, I honestly don't think we're bad enough to get our first rounder anyways. We've had a brutal schedule and our second best scorer just came back from injury last week. Yet if things just went a bit differently in that Denver game, we'd be sitting at 4-10 which would put us at the 7th draft position. (Note, I'm not trying to make excuses for that Denver loss, I'm just trying to show how close we are to being outside of the top 5 despite having a brutal start to the season).

 

Michael beasely, Anthony Randolph, and andray blatche! Young, athletic and still has potential to be starting material

 

I've read somewhere that the FO doubts we'll use it at this point. Fact is, it's hard to find an unsigned FA worth almost MLE money (who also can't sign for additional years) and the chances of one becoming available by trade who is in their last year and therefore expiring are really low as well. More likely to use the DPE of Randles I think.

 

After seeing this team now and knowing the playoffs are out of reach, I wouldn't use it. Bring up Manny Harris and Roscoe Smith, let go of X and Price. No one on that list is a game changer for us this season. We stink.

 

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 31m31 minutes ago
Lakers, Earl Clark working on a one-year deal, league sources told Yahoo. He's averaging nearly 30 points for Houston's D-League affiliate.

 

I'd rather bring in young talent and develop them, we aren't making the playoffs so no need for veteran players.

Still don't understand this though, they give us an exception to use on a player but we need to cut a healthy player to be able to add another player? Makes no sense to me.

 

It took so long because we were trying to move it. Obviously no one wants a dead roster spot, even if it is an expiring.