Check the other thread Roosk. We both overlooked the most blatantly obvious answer. HUGE salary dump + additional rebuilding + increased pressure from one of the few teams with the ability / need / tenthway-desirable returns to go into a trade with them. (also Pau isn't a great foundation player, imo)
Sickening.
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moofs wrote:Check the other thread Roosk. We both overlooked the most blatantly obvious answer. HUGE salary dump + additional rebuilding + increased pressure from one of the few teams with the ability / need / tenthway-desirable returns to go into a trade with them. (also Pau isn't a great foundation player, imo)
Sickening.
Yeah, can't believe we missed that one. Still, you'd think the picks that Chicago would give up for Pau would end up higher than whatever the Lakers picks will be, right?
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You'd think, but then look what the Bulls would have to give up.
You have to get 10.2825 mil
So either Ben Wallace + picks
But Ben has 3 years left. Not much of a salary dump, long term, and obviously not one short term.
or
Joe Smith (-5.2 = 5.0825)
and some combination of:
Viktor Khryapa 1.9, 2.7
Thabo Sefolosha 1.8, 1.9, 2.7, 3.8
Adrian Griffin 1.6, 1.7
The top 3 guys would work, and actually be less than what LA sent (18,741,247 vs 18,337,724.2) But I seriously doubt that Gasol is going to put Chicago over the top. They really put themselves into a MASSIVE bind with the Ben Wallace signing (which a lot of people on here laughed at me for calling "the worst recent free agent signing outside of Kwame Brown", ironically. Wonder exactly where I ranked it in that "Worst FA Signings of All Time" thread? - you NEVER [almost] sign a guy to a high dollar contract at age 32. EVER. Especially not one whose game is built solely on athleticism. I can actually understand why the Bulls were always so reluctant to keep offering 36 year old Michael Jordan $33mil/yr contracts now - when are the wheels going to fall off and suddenly you're just out a LOT of money?). So at that point, they're strapped, with 2 of their main guys needing new contracts next year, and having increased their cap by about 3+mil over the next 4, AND they can't compensate for that strappedness like we finally managed to do by using the draft because they traded away their picks. So I guess it kinda makes sense. There can't be many teams looking at a 27 year old PF/C for rebuilding (not that he's old, just that if it doesn't click within 2-4 years, you got nothing and are better off with the picks). I don't know what other teams were pursuing him, but the Lakers might really have been the only option, and if the Bulls were entertaining options on Ben Wallace, they probably weren't too serious about Gasol, that, maybe another option or two, or they didn't realize that they were working against themselves (doubtful).
i.e. it was likely the Bulls that weren't entertaining that trade, not vice versa.
Eh.
You have to get 10.2825 mil
So either Ben Wallace + picks
But Ben has 3 years left. Not much of a salary dump, long term, and obviously not one short term.
or
Joe Smith (-5.2 = 5.0825)
and some combination of:
Viktor Khryapa 1.9, 2.7
Thabo Sefolosha 1.8, 1.9, 2.7, 3.8
Adrian Griffin 1.6, 1.7
The top 3 guys would work, and actually be less than what LA sent (18,741,247 vs 18,337,724.2) But I seriously doubt that Gasol is going to put Chicago over the top. They really put themselves into a MASSIVE bind with the Ben Wallace signing (which a lot of people on here laughed at me for calling "the worst recent free agent signing outside of Kwame Brown", ironically. Wonder exactly where I ranked it in that "Worst FA Signings of All Time" thread? - you NEVER [almost] sign a guy to a high dollar contract at age 32. EVER. Especially not one whose game is built solely on athleticism. I can actually understand why the Bulls were always so reluctant to keep offering 36 year old Michael Jordan $33mil/yr contracts now - when are the wheels going to fall off and suddenly you're just out a LOT of money?). So at that point, they're strapped, with 2 of their main guys needing new contracts next year, and having increased their cap by about 3+mil over the next 4, AND they can't compensate for that strappedness like we finally managed to do by using the draft because they traded away their picks. So I guess it kinda makes sense. There can't be many teams looking at a 27 year old PF/C for rebuilding (not that he's old, just that if it doesn't click within 2-4 years, you got nothing and are better off with the picks). I don't know what other teams were pursuing him, but the Lakers might really have been the only option, and if the Bulls were entertaining options on Ben Wallace, they probably weren't too serious about Gasol, that, maybe another option or two, or they didn't realize that they were working against themselves (doubtful).
i.e. it was likely the Bulls that weren't entertaining that trade, not vice versa.
Eh.
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