[::OFFSEASON OVER. Lock Please.::]

[essential1]

I'm not sure years matter. But only certain players can get it. Nash is one

Stretch provision = Number of years left in contract x 2 + 1

And the remaining money is stretched out over that time.

Lakers wouldn't use stretch until 2014 anyway if they do at all

 

[CP1708]

Yeah, the stretch would be after next season.

If we let Dwight walk, we're still too good to tank top 3 lotteryish, unless we flipped Pau/Nash at the deadline.

Kobe would be pissed if we pulled that. He'd have to be sold solid LeBron was coming.

BG is 55 mil????? 4 years? ****.

 

[sb]

just found out about this thread

 

[vindeezy]

Im in thr minority, but id rather have blake (his age/contract/skillset) than a maxed out dwight at 28-33 and the headache+lack of post gm+bricked FTs..

Before the anti Blake ppl contest..Griffins post gm, face up jumper, FTs are improving. Plus I think he and Pau would compliment each other more effectively. As long as hill and clark are the backuo forwards and a MMLE SF is signed(m.webster/d.wright)...itll do.

 

[vindeezy]

Having said that....this deal wont happen. Laker brass is too hell bent on maxing out d12 and or retaining cap space. You have to entertain deals that benefit you or make sense. Unfortunately, I just dont see jim buss facilitating any negotiations for a s&t or not hanging up on GMs..I honestly think its d12 or bust.....and if not d12, than 1 MMLE or vets exception while standing pat everywhere else. Im not gonna hold my breath.

 

[MajinZuub]

Adding Griffin isn't going to help us that much. Getting Bledsoe would be awesome though. I have a feeling D12 isn't going to leave and I don't know how I feel about that.

 

[vindeezy]

^^youre right..it wouldnt equate to many more wins with a straight up swap..id just rather have him at 24 tha d12 at 28..but having bledsoe would be tremendous. I dont know what kind of GM would propose such a one sided deal. I guess theyre really trying to appease cp3 and get something while they can for bledsoe...and conversely, the lakers really dont want d12 across the hallway. Frankly, if the lakers have somewhat of a contingency plan, d12 walking will leave me completely unfazed. He can go get stripped in the post ans brick crucial FTs in hous.

 

[daddyrabbit251]

Blake in staples... Dunkin and wearing Purp... With Bledsoe bowling balling into the paint.... Nash coming off the bench...



People talk about Blake's post game and scoring but to be honest he nor deandre ever have a chance to post b/c the team is so P&R happy w/ CP3

Dwight said he's not a P&R center how he gonna look w/ CP3 a P&R guard?

 

[daddyrabbit251]

Pau at the 5, Blake at the 4

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[vindeezy]

^lol..classic

A theoretical front court of pau/blake/clark(or MMLE FA) and hill/sacre/mwp(if not amnestied)/clark would be something I can live with.

I hope jim at least sees that dwights right foot is out the door and at least decides to get something in return.

 

[essential1]

at One sided deal.

A lot of you really need to separate your personal gripes with Dwight from your basketball opinion

 

[00david00]

try a three team ?

clips get dwight

we get love and bledsoe

minnesotta gets griffin

pau at the 5 w/ love at the 4 can work better

we get athleticism in the back court

 

[MVP]

Hey we'd have the softest frontcourt in history in Griff and Pau, but dammit at this point if Deewight is on his way out, that's by far the next best return you could ask for. Probably won't be losing much in the overall production, except maybe defensively. But we also get a strong athletic guard on the perimeter in Bledsoe and Griff's contract is a little more cap friendly than a maxed out Dwight. Also have to have someone here that looks attractive for when LeBron opts out after next season and he's not even going to entertain the idea if we don't have a stud already in Staples.

 

[dako akong otin]

I'm kinda bothered that Griffin's production is declining every year. Especially at the rebound department. Bledsoe would be nice though.

 

[cruzair13]

Bledsoe would be the steal... in that trade.
His ability to get in the paint and finish will open up the game for everyone.
He will be able to learn from Nash and will probably start while Nash heads the second unit.
Let him cook... I can see him averaging 15 and 7 with all the otherLakers surrounding him.

 

[daddyrabbit251]

Blake gonna have to switch back to the 23

Yeeeeaaaaa.... Oh leh doooo it

 

[pmatic]

Sterling won't trade his cash cow, but that's as good a return for Dwight as you're going to get.

I clown Blake all the time, but he's a top 12-15 player in the league.

 

[pmatic]

Latest on what Lakers will do with Dwight

When word began to circulate Saturday that the Clippers have weighed offering Blake Griffin and Eric Bledsoe to their Staples Center co-tenants for Dwight Howard in a potential sign-and-trade swap after July 1, that naturally made folks wonder where the Lakers stand in their quest to re-sign Howard when he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Here's the latest:

• The Lakers have had several discussions with Howard's representatives over the past few weeks and remain confident that they will ultimately keep him with the franchise, even as he's made it clear he will entertain other suitors.

• Yet the Lakers also, according to sources, have not completely ruled out the idea of a sign-and-trade if they come to find next month that Howard is determined to leave. Sources say they are indeed leaning against sign-and-trade scenarios because they'd rather bank the resultant cap space from Howard's departure for the summer of 2014. But sources say they've adopted a keep-all-options-open approach. So they'll at least listen to just about anything.

• One source with knowledge of the Lakers' thinking said Saturday that any suggestion they could not philosophically allow themselves to make a major trade with the Clippers was "overblown." If the Clippers do indeed decide to formally offer Griffin and Bledsoe in a sign-and-trade package for Howard, indications are that it's a proposal the Lakers will certainly not dismiss outright.

• The threat of the James Harden-led Rockets signing Howard away from L.A. is very real to the Lakers, sources said, which means the Lakers will eventually be getting a sign-and-trade pitch from Houston as well. The Rockets will have the cap space to sign Howard outright after the expected shedding of Thomas Robinson's contract, but sources say that the Rockets will certainly attempt to convince the Lakers to take in return Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin in a sign-and-trade deal for Howard, thus theoretically keeping alive the possibility that Houston could preserve its cap space to pursue Chris Paul and possibly pair Howard with Paul.

• Asik is a quality defensive anchor at roughly half Howard's price. And Lin had the greatest success of his career under Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni. But sources maintain that the Lakers' main priority this offseason -- besides re-signing Howard -- is getting their financial house in order. Which is why the overriding expectation persists that L.A. will rebuff sign-and-trade proposals to simply bank the cap space for the summer of 2014 if Howard bolts.

• Should Howard decide to leave the Lakers, sources said, several options have been discussed internally in Lakerland. Among them: The Lakers could simply let him walk, go into the season with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash as their centerpieces -- as they had planned in July 2012 before the trade for Howard materialized -- and focus on slicing into their luxury-tax bill.

Link

 

[daddyrabbit251]

Jeremy Lin is a no... Big time no

 

[Peep Game]

THrob & Lin for Howard, DO IT MITCHMOREY

 

[vindeezy]

Trob/Beverly/asik for d12. Id do it yesturday.

 

[ValarMorghulis]

I'd need Asik, Thomas, Donatas, Beverly, and the next 2 #1s and it still wouldn't be close to equal value.

I like the 3-teamer to get Love

 

[Peep Game]

 

[vindeezy]

I dunno if hous would bite on that considering the 2 future #1s... I'm just trying to be realistic while basing it off a similar rumor of lin/parsons/asik. Bev/trob/asik is a better package. Younger, more athletic, more upside. I guess u can ask for 1 future#1 along with those 3 and see if they bite.

 

[CHAOSE57]

This should be interesting...