Official 2016 Free Agency Thread

I would take any talent right now, but in all honesty I prefer two way players, if somehow we can trade for Butler and still keeping most of our youngings, and signing kd and Whiteside right there that's defense and offense.

 

Definitely not a sexy signing, but I like Courtney Lee. He has a good year; 45.8% from the field, 37% from 3-point range, and a TS% of 55.6.

 

To be fair, are the Lakers really in a position where they can pick and choose who to sign? If a 26 yr old all star is WILLING to sign with a rebuilding Lakers team, you say no? I get it, DeRozen doesn't move the needle for a lot of guys, but you are willing to pass up that opportunity to sign an all star, that can potentially bring other talent to the team? Honestly, we need to get past the pipe dream of getting Durant and Westbrook here, it isn't happening.

 

i think derozan's a better player than batum, though batum's skillset would be a better fit. i'd be happy with either, and i think both will get their max. i also think it will constitute an overpay in each case, but that's the reality when you try to build with cap space. only the super duper stars aren't overpays in the open market. either that or the bottom of the barrel guys, but the lakers have way too much cash to only be sifting through the bargain bin.

this is why i'm not a big fan of building with tons of cap space. people talk about miami, but they're really the only success story. so many other failures in these complete teardowns. the post-jordan bulls are a great example. they had to overpay eddie robinson simply because they had so much money to burn and nobody wanted to go there.

it's good to have flexibility (like a max slot or the ability to create one by offloading picks with big short deals, like gs did a couple years ago), but infinite flexibility means you have nothing to go to.

 

Quick question, does anyone know what the cap floor is for this upcoming season? How much do we need to spend in FA?

 

yeah, the cap floor is a bit of a paper tiger. if mitch doesn't get his guys, he'll eat bloated one-year deals in exchange for 2nd rounders. i hope to one day be back on the other end of that.

 

You know what would be endearing to Kevin Durant if we all wrote a letter to him and convincing him to join the purple N gold. Anyone have kds email or a way to contact him?

 

Is this sarcasm, or is this serious???

 

Lol I'm serious man....

 

"convincing him"? I'd like to see that draft:

Come on Kev, sign for less here, we got young guys that will be ballin' and ready to go in just 5 years and the worst possible young-guy coach for them. But if you write this year off while we wait for Westbrook to come over next summer, assuming you can talk him into it, you can get some really cool endorsement deals at like Cerritos Auto Square for 100k a spot to supplement your 30 million a year Nike deal. Sure, you could just stay where you're at for more money and already have Westbrook who is in his absolute prime, bigs like Ibaka and Kanter and reload over the next year or 2 with the new cap & tax kicking in, and you can even just live in LA in the offseason ...but...I forget why to come here now. Oh yeah you can make your good buddy Stephen A Smith's prediction right! - Signed everyone at lakersball.com

 

Agents are lickin' their chops right now at all the 1 years this summer and we are probably the #1 destination for them. Maybe Hibbert will be back after all.

 

According to Chris "multiple sauces" Broussard, he thnks DeRozan could attract Durant!!!

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/losangeles/play?id=15274769 (around 7:30 min mark)