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This gone be a must watch season. Cant wait to see Lin gettin ripped by Kobe
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So Pau took less money to play in Chicago?
Duncan, Manu, Parker, Bron, Bosh, Wade, Dirk, Pau, Melo.
I don't count Steph because of injury history.
I don't count Dwight cuz he'll still get paid during that 5th year.
I don't count Kobe cuz 79 million in final 3 years.
Sitting here watching the Lakers network watching the top 10 lakers transactions....
I'll tell you in my time being on this earth I have been spoiled with this franchise... I have seen this laker franchise win 9 titles...NINE!!!
I know we are bad...and will be bad for a while...
But I can't ever jump. We gonna get better...we always have...and we always will.
#believe
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In 2010 all 3 took less, to help nab Haslem.
Sitting here watching the Lakers network watching the top 10 lakers transactions....
I'll tell you in my time being on this earth I have been spoiled with this franchise... I have seen this laker franchise win 9 titles...NINE!!!
I know we are bad...and will be bad for a while...
But I can't ever jump. We gonna get better...we always have...and we always will.
#believe
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Don't necessarily think it's about the money for everyone. I think Pau just wanted to find a new environment, to send a message to Lakers mgmt that LA is indeed done for and that there was no need to be 'loyal'. There was no need to 'discuss' w/ Kobe about taking one for the team anymore. LA did nothing this off-season. It seemed they were confused as heck and started to panic, thereby signed the same guys on quick contracts.So Pau took less money to play in Chicago?
Duncan, Manu, Parker, Bron, Bosh, Wade, Dirk, Pau, Melo.
I don't count Steph because of injury history.
I don't count Dwight cuz he'll still get paid during that 5th year.
I don't count Kobe cuz 79 million in final 3 years.
In 2010 all 3 took less, to help nab Haslem.
They took a smidgen less than the max right, or was it a significant paycut ?
Not a loaded question just honest curiosity.
I don't think we'll be bad "for a while".
IF....
We play our hand properly.
Just, with a little luck/executive order, we hire Byron and signal for good we suck.
However it happens, be it tanking, or Silver giving us the Cleveland special, we keep our top 5. PF is out cuz of Randle, so for this example, we take SF Stanley Johnson.
Houston pick we nab.....? (I need to work on this one, Willie Cauley-Stein maybe????)
At the trade deadline, we try to flip Lin, Hill, Marshall or Nash. If we get anything, great, if not, let them expire. (27-28 mil)
2015 FA, we try to get Marc Gasol.
C, Gasol, Sacre, Stein
PF, Randle, Kelly
SF, Johnson, Young
SG, Kobe, Xavier
PG, Clarkson, Kane
Room for 1 more. Maybe Marshall, or any piece we get from a deadline deal.
Young, young core, minus Kobe, Gasol 2.0, and Young.
After that year, Kobe leaves, 25 mil in cap space. Our pitch to Durant is Gasol, Randle, Johnson, Clarkson (hopefully) plus an already young, but experienced bench.
If Durant says no, ok, you split the 25 between two pieces at 13 and 12 per. (Whoever else is obtainable that summer)
Then you'd still have the upside to improve with in Randle, Johnson, Clarkson, Stein, Kane, Kelly, Xavier, Sacre.
Or, deals that involve moving 2-3 of them for a suddenly available piece, like the Harden deal. Or upcoming Love deal if that happens.
Play it right, we tank this year correctly, little luck with the Houston pick, we can be back fighting in the 2015-16 season, Kobe's last run. 2 top picks, a Marc Gasol signing, and some Laker luck with Clarkson and the Houston pick, we'd be solid again, with cheap contracts, expirings, and hope again.
So you may not like tanking, but it could be a nice means to an end. And in one year, it would all be over and a new generation of Lakers would be created in the same mold as Nick, Kobe, Eddie, Elden and then Shaq.![]()
I don't think we'll be bad "for a while".
IF....
We play our hand properly.
Just, with a little luck/executive order, we hire Byron and signal for good we suck.
However it happens, be it tanking, or Silver giving us the Cleveland special, we keep our top 5. PF is out cuz of Randle, so for this example, we take SF Stanley Johnson.
Houston pick we nab.....? (I need to work on this one, Willie Cauley-Stein maybe????)
At the trade deadline, we try to flip Lin, Hill, Marshall or Nash. If we get anything, great, if not, let them expire. (27-28 mil)
2015 FA, we try to get Marc Gasol.
C, Gasol, Sacre, Stein
PF, Randle, Kelly
SF, Johnson, Young
SG, Kobe, Xavier
PG, Clarkson, Kane
Room for 1 more. Maybe Marshall, or any piece we get from a deadline deal.
Young, young core, minus Kobe, Gasol 2.0, and Young.
After that year, Kobe leaves, 25 mil in cap space. Our pitch to Durant is Gasol, Randle, Johnson, Clarkson (hopefully) plus an already young, but experienced bench.
If Durant says no, ok, you split the 25 between two pieces at 13 and 12 per. (Whoever else is obtainable that summer)
Then you'd still have the upside to improve with in Randle, Johnson, Clarkson, Stein, Kane, Kelly, Xavier, Sacre.
Or, deals that involve moving 2-3 of them for a suddenly available piece, like the Harden deal. Or upcoming Love deal if that happens.
Play it right, we tank this year correctly, little luck with the Houston pick, we can be back fighting in the 2015-16 season, Kobe's last run. 2 top picks, a Marc Gasol signing, and some Laker luck with Clarkson and the Houston pick, we'd be solid again, with cheap contracts, expirings, and hope again.
So you may not like tanking, but it could be a nice means to an end. And in one year, it would all be over and a new generation of Lakers would be created in the same mold as Nick, Kobe, Eddie, Elden and then Shaq.![]()
Sounds decent on paper.
Question, so you'll be fine with us giving a 30 yr old Marc Gasol a max deal next summer?
And if missing on Durant, you'll be ok with giving that cap space to other 2nd tier guys? Why at that point do we not continue to tank after missing on KD?
And also that's quite the pitch to give to KD when he'll also have to take less money and leave a prime Russ and Ibaka in OKC. Unlike Shaq.
And in your scenario we have 25 mil in cap space which is enough to do something? Whether it be a star or 2nd tier guys?
All interesting stuff...