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Gek wrote:Threads like this make lakers fans look like idiots expecting that we're just going to get him. Let's be realistic, we'll be lucky if we get any decent FA this off season.

initiald wrote:I'm being honest with you here. Every players WANT AND WISH TO BE a Lakers. It's a matter of how many roster spot we have and how much we can pay them. If the money is good, they come here regardless of what players we surround them with. The only few players who turn us down over the years are KG, C-Web that I can think of.

Rule: Extend-and-trades (think Carmelo Anthony to New York) are permitted, but at a price. Maximum length of the extension drops to three years, with raises of 4.5%. A team signing a player to a deal longer than the extend-and-trade permits can't trade him for six months, and a team acquiring a player in a trade can't give a contract extension larger than the E-and-T rules permit for six months.

Impact: Good news in the short term, tougher in the future. For the next two seasons, sign-and-trade deals remain available to the Lakers, leaving open an avenue to bolster the current roster and also plan for the future. In year 3, however, the tool disappears from the tool box. While not necessarily used extensively, in conjunction with other restrictions it becomes a bigger deal.

It also puts a clock on theoretical deals for Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, or a different star. The Lakers (or any other team) would need a six-month cushion from the date of the swap before pen could meet paper on a contract extension. The goal, though, is to limit the ability of richies like L.A. to continue stacking superstars. All told, combined with the tax rules, assembling a powerhouse squad becomes more difficult, and keeping one together even harder. With the Lakers, superior management has in large part been responsible for the former, and deep pockets the latter.

In those years the Lakers drop out of the tax, though, the new rules will afford some new flexibility. Salaries on trades need only match within 150% rather than 125%, and the matching period on restricted free agents drops from seven days to three, for example. Shorter contract lengths will make it easier for teams to move players, build a roster, and undo mistakes.

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Jhoby wrote:Yo Jay for LA did you used to call into Lee Klein on AM570?

Dalakerbox wrote:The new cba IMO was designed with our beloved Lakers in mind. The other 28 gm's in the league were looking for a way to stop the Lakers reign. This is why there's bidding for amnestied players, and why teams over the tax can only spend 3mil of the MLE. They are all tired of seeing us compete for a title. With that in mind why would any of them trade is Howard,Williams or Paul? Or even help facilitate a trade that would land us any of them? They just won't and it sucks but it is what it is.

More realistic option is wait it out til these contracts expire and see what's out there then. If I'm wrong I'm wrong but I for one won't get my hopes up