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1. You don't give Love the chance to hit free agency and choose another team like Phil Jackson's Knicks
2. We don't give the TWolves a chance to trade him elsewhere, that could make it very hard for us to get him at that point once his new team restricts him and throws max dollars at him
3. Once we have Love here the chances are very very low that he will leave us. He ain't D12 and once we throw max money at him among other things I don't think he'll be going anywhere. He will be a hometown hero
4. Lastly having an already young established star on our squad will be better for us in 2015 when free agency will be at it's peak for us. It'll be easier for us to lure another superstar on the team if we already have one here (KLove) instead of trying to do it all in one summer.
I think this may be the easier road traveled. Just my opinion though.
Is the goal to get Kevin Love in a Lakers uniform? Or to build a contender again? Because right now those are far from the same thing.
I get KingJaffeJo's point about having Love to lure other players. But there is still the matter of a salary cap - the wall that stops them from building.
All the players in the world could line up wanting to play for the Lakers with Kevin Love, but the Lakers can only take ~$40mil of them (that's after Kobe's done).
The lottery pick would be a (hopefully) solid young talent playing for cheap.
He would also be someone that the Lakers hold the Bird Rights for. ie the player that gets them past the salary cap with an extension.
No you stay with the pick. No matter what.
Even if it doesn't work out, you still made the right choice.
You guys don't get that you can't skip over steps anymore. We don't have a prime Kobe that allows us to.
Being short- sighted got us in this mess, it WON'T get us out
2010; people fighting to create individual game threads for each Laker game, 10 pages minimum each.
2014; 2 total posts for a game, after it's done. 0 during. Most fans didn't even realize we played today.
How times have changed
Is the goal to get Kevin Love in a Lakers uniform? Or to build a contender again? Because right now those are far from the same thing.
Granted they both made financial sacrifices, they still made just as much money with their new teams than their old teams because Florida and Texas don't have state taxes.As for the salary cap Dwight and Lebron already showed us that pairing up with another star is far more important than $.
The guys that feel trading assets for a player a year from Free Agency, any of you follow how that worked out for Carmelo and the Knicks?????????
That work out good for NY?
Think maybe the Knicks would have been better off keeping Gallo, Mozgov, Chandler, Felton and their draft picks WITH a FA signed Melo, Stat, Shumpert, Chandler (Tyson) and whatever other pieces they brought in??????
You add free agents to your pieces. You don't trade your pieces for free agents. That's called one foot forward, one foot back.
The guys that feel trading assets for a player a year from Free Agency, any of you follow how that worked out for Carmelo and the Knicks?????????
That work out good for NY?
Think maybe the Knicks would have been better off keeping Gallo, Mozgov, Chandler, Felton and their draft picks WITH a FA signed Melo, Stat, Shumpert, Chandler (Tyson) and whatever other pieces they brought in??????
You add free agents to your pieces. You don't trade your pieces for free agents. That's called one foot forward, one foot back.
That was their plan B IMO after striking out on Lebron and Dwade.
They got a star and now they tried to surround him with pieces. It worked out great last year idk about this year
Bron/Bosh was PRE CBA, and Olympic teammates who planned the whole thing. And do not, for one second, forget Riley.
Harden had ONE year as a starter man. And you talkin about Dwight Howard decisions. The guy that put his arm around the coach that had just announced Dwight wanted him fired.
Listen, if Pat Riley worked in Chicago, with Thibbs as his coach, Bron and Bosh could be in Chi Town with them.
Orrrrr
If the Knicks landed Steph in the draft, Bron be out there too. (He was rumored to love Steph back then)
Bron chose his buddy + Riley + Miami PRE CBA.
It worked out great last year???????????????????
Really, what they win, one round?
Could they have used those 4 other players + a draft pick to try and beat Miami, perhaps?