The Official 2013 Lakers Offseason Thread (P. 3)

If he does that, the more reason he'll give the Bucks to give big money towards Jennings' way.

Dunleavy will likely leave them and would be an Ok pickup for a shooter. I suppose his dad having coached here could also weigh on him taking less money and move to La. I think he'd be ok with a one-year deal too, which suits us.

Honest question so please dont torch me too hard. For all the salary experts out there my question is, is it possible, from a financial stand point-to sign Chris Paul if say Pau were traded or if someone got amnestied?

We would have to clear more cap to sign him. We couldn't re-sign Dwight, we would have to Amnesty Gasol and trade Nash and MWP

Damn thats alot!!!! Didnt think it would be that complicated. Thanks for the info!

From the top of my head, it's possible, but it's a pipe dream situation from a financial standpoint. To sign CP3 , Dwight has to leave,we'd have to let Pau go without bringing back salary and even then we couldn't offer much money to him. If MWP would let his option go too, then we could give him something. We'd have to risk too much for just the chance of signing him, which isn't going to happen anyway.

All Lakers can do with free agents is either sign a player for the MLE (mid-level exception) around 5 million, a player for the BAE (bi-annual exception) at around 3 mil and players for vet/league min which differs depending on how many years the player receiving the contract has been in the league.

A player already on our team on which we have "Bird Rights" whom we can give more money than stated above and exceed salary cap can be re-signed.

Your welcome and yea our cap situation makes it hard for us to sign players. I wish we had cap space this year so we could make a run at CP3 while keeping Dwight

I do not know why but I have a feeling Bynum will be back in a Lakers Jersey and actually playing next season.

Well he would have to sign for the Mid-Level exception or the Vet's min if he were to come to the Lakers.

Metta World Peace is live tweeting tonight's Memphis vs Clippers game. He's tweeting some interesting stuff. For Example:

Maybe a shot at Pau/D12.

It's no need for him to make that comment about the best big men in the game if its not one of our bigs...I guess he is bored

Metta is as good as gone anyways he can say whatever he wants lol

Remember when people wanted Grant Hill, and were angry when he went to the Clippers? Lmao.

Clips lose game 5 at home. Looks like they will be a first round exit. I feel for Chris Paul though he's been doing anything but he is literally the only one to do anything. He deserves better.

Yeah he deserves to be on the Thunder, or he should have been with the Bulls this year since Rose doesn't want to come back, hell maybe he should take a paycut to play for the Heat.

All I know is that when an opportunity to sign a good player presents itself, Mitch better not kick back in his rocking chair and watch that player get signed.

He said Chris Paul deserves better. Do you seriously consider the Lakers "better" then the Clippers at this point in time?

Ahaa totally random but watching the Clip Grizz post game with Gasol interviewed..Marc sounds exactly like Pau ahahah also talks like him

The infamous "Stand Pat"

I guess the fact that they are brothers has something to do with that.

Lmao idk why but I got a kick out of that

floppers fans wishes lakers players to get injury and sht, now their player got injured. Floppers fans should of known that "karma is a *****." Also as I said before del negro choking in playoffs as usual. lol

Its just sad and patheic. Clippers though by changing their game plan would help them win the series but Memphis being more aggressive has taken every single momentum the clippers ever had. Blake and DJ are such a joke of a front line.

Lets hope Memphis close it out friday. Flop city fans over on CTB was mentioning how it would be a easy ride to the WCF because Westbrook went down. What happens when you look to far in the future. haha.

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I want Gasol to stay and D'Antoni to go

Sign and trade for Lopez & picks & make Nets eat one of our bad contracts. I mean Lakers did get a future solid starting SF in the original Dwight trade, so it wouldn't be a total lost.

I want both gone

It baffles my mind when I think about the numerous cheap guys that LAL let get away from them this year. They have to do a better job of scouting because there's got to be a gem out there either in the D-League or on someone's bench.

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I'm so sick of people thinking lebron will be a laker one day

Lakers get: Kevin Love, Derrick Williams, JJ Barea, Andrei Kirelinko and Marshoon Brooks

Nets get: Dwight Howard and Brandon Roy

Timberwolves get: Brook Lopez, Pau Gasol, Jodie Meeks, Nets 1st

Nash / Barea

Kobe / Brooks

Kirelinko / Clark

Love / Williams

Hill / FA

2014 make a run at Irving, Wall, George, Iggy, Gay , Thompson, or Monroe

Can anyone answer this question?

Let me walk you through my thinking first. We have 68,000,000 in guaranteed contracts next year. I would like to try to go after a free agent like Chris Paul. I am thinking that if somehow Dwight and Paul were to talk to each other and would like to play with each other, we might be able to sign Chris Paul by doing this move.

Amnesty Pau Gasol. We would then have around 49,000,000 in garaunteed. Could we offer Chris Paul a 20,000,000 contract which would then bring our payroll to around 69,000,000. I think cap will be at 70,000,000. But then, we could resign Dwight Howard because we have his Bird rights and be able to go over the cap.

Does this make sense? Is this possible?

What about Al Jefferson ?

Trade PAU , Clark, for K-love and buddinger

Even though its 3 women talking, its still a good video lol

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9232436

Al Jefferson may seem like a smart move because of his offense but trust me, his defense is bad. Also I think even trading Pau and clark for kevin love alone is a stretch.

You dont amnesty a guy like Pau Gasol just because you want to go after Chris Paul. Besides, he wouldnt come anyway. He found a new team and a new home and thats that. Also, to even have any cap space to sign CP3, we would have to amnesty Kobe, trade Pau and let Dwight walk.

I would love lebron on the Lakers but if Lebron always "privately" wanted to be a laker, this man sure as hell wouldnt know about it.

Yes Please

So we would be able to sign Paul and then re-sign Howard. Even though it won't happen, it is still possible to have both

That's not possible, Dwight salary would be counted until he sign a contract, its called the free agent amount, here is a link about the salary cap http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q36

I'm willing to throw in more in that k-love deal.. Both Ebanks and Morris... Lol

This was a hypothetical sort of a situation. In the case that Dwight and CP3 worked something out behind the scenes or any other free agent for that matter. I just wanted to find out what moves are possible. I want Pau here and healthy with everyone else healthy besides Duhon and Coach Pringles. I don't think its feasible to "blow up the team," I think the squad has a chance to grow with another year together and I don't think we have much flexibility unless we amnesty Kobe, which is the last thing I would like to see.

Thanks! This is what I was looking for.

Everybody take payy cuts. Sign dwight. Sign chris paul. Fire d'antoni. Get a bench.

Free agent wish list(realistic)

Mini-mid- Dorell Wright or Chase Budinger

Veterans min- Wesely Johnson, Omri Casspi maybe Luke Babbitt

Some trade scenarios here are ridiculous klove dream on! So i can say trade ebanks for lebron agreed? Just fire the coach.. Add some length and speed plus shot creators.amnesty MWP. Then we can rebuild after that since most of the big load contracts will be expired. Kobe said it best, keep the core then add some pieces. The fo mistake for the past few years was staying away for continuity, they always like to trade some of our core pieces and the chemistry have been affected again. So again add some pieces around this core and from there we win or not. Rebuild.

Sometimes i feel bummed when we had odom,gasol,bynum but mitch try to trade gasol and odom. But why not just build around it? Add some pieces that can help and complement the core.

I like Babbitt, but the problem is he may be a little unproven and with D'Antoni at the helm, he may not get in and play. Be nice to have a coach that knows how to develop the young players and intergrate them., instead of throwing guys, because he has no choice.

Your welcome