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i was thinking about this laker team is athletic what so ever..who can we sign next year that really help this team if we can get a legit coach
remember 95% chance gasol artest are gone and morris sarce jamison and clark contracts gone and were most likely going to resign clark

can't get an athletic team off minimum contracts. You're best bet is to get some athletic players back in Pau Gasol trade.

Pau to Minny should get the Lakers some athletes I personally like Williams, Cunningham and Barea.

Well he have ebanks and clark, personally i'd like to see more mins for ebanks because he actually plays D and is good for a burst of energy. I like Derrick Williams but this dude has Rubio feeding him and he's still posting turd like efficiency. his shot is erratic at the very best and he's a liability at the line. If he gets his head straight, hell yeah lets get him tho

He also has mental problems. Look at his home/road splits.

We had a chance to sign CDR this year. Even T-Williams or Gerald Green. But we didn't. Those were athletic 3s who can create for themselves. Something we really lack.

DeMar DeRozan. He's not a good fit next to Rudy Gay (needs an outside shooter). He's an LA kid too.

I doubt that Demar signs for the minimum here. He would be a good back up/6th man.
i am positive that Pau is getting traded now.

I don't know Johnny, how athletic can the Lakers get next year?

The way Pau's value looks now, I'm not even sure he'd fetch Derrick Williams, let alone with Barea and Dante as throw ins. I'm not saying Pau won't be better in another system, but his value now is really low. Plus at his age, it doesn't make the most sense for the Wolves. People are just assuming the Wolves will do it because Pau is white.

We should Pick up Eric Maynor, Ronnie Brewer, Luke Babbitt

The first 2 are likely out of your budget.

Jman why do you come on this board?
I see you all the time hating on the Lakers on GB and PC boards.

I frequent other boards enough that i've seen what you say about the Lakers. If you don't like our team, than why bother coming at all?

Duhon for G. Green....Green has been a disappointment in Indy. We take a flyer, while Indy could just get Duhon @ his partial gurantee of 1.5 mill and save same a few million off of Green contract. Green at worse is not worse then Meeks from 3's.

Pau to Clev for Gee/Speights or Minn for Dwill/fillers

resign Clark, start him or Hill

use Mini MLE on a quick/athlete @ the PG or SF position.

there, at least 3 addition of athletes/youth.

Cleveland is rebuilding their not going to take on a 33 yr old player making 19m so cross that off your lists. Minn is the best option if you want to get a nice group of young talented players. Another trade i've thought about is one with Chi its a much more simpler trade Pau for Deng and Hamiltion. Hamiltons deal isn't fully guaranteed so the Lakers can waive him quickly and this trade gives Dwight his long term running mate if he stays in LA.

The Deng idea involves other moves obviously resigning Howard and Clark. Hopefully Artest opts out and the Lakers use the amnesty on Blake. To replace Blake the Lakers use the mini mle on Cj Watson and if they can somehow figure out a trade for Cunningham from Minn maybe with cash and picks fill out the rest of the roster with vets and rookies.
Lakers look like this
PG. Nash, Watson, Morris
SG. Kobe, Meeks
SF. Deng, Cunningham
PF. Clark, Hill, Jamison (if he doesn't retire)
C. Dwight, Sacre

KingLakers wrote:Cleveland is rebuilding their not going to take on a 33 yr old player making 19m so cross that off your lists. Minn is the best option if you want to get a nice group of young talented players. Another trade i've thought about is one with Chi its a much more simpler trade Pau for Deng and Hamiltion. Hamiltons deal isn't fully guaranteed so the Lakers can waive him quickly and this trade gives Dwight his long term running mate if he stays in LA.

Clev does it because they lose nothing and gain a talent that could help make a playoff push. I think they're done sucking. As for Chi idea, Chi is one of the cheapest big market team in the league, why the hell would they want Pau with Boozer still around?

CLE doesn't "lose nothing". you're asking them to take on like $13-14 mil in salary for a player that has no future with them. remember this is the owner who complained vigorously about the lakers/cp3 trade...not cause the lakers got cp3, but because the lakers would be lowering their lux tax bill and thus cost CLE money.

dockingsched wrote:CLE doesn't "lose nothing". you're asking them to take on like $13-14 mil in salary for a player that has no future with them. remember this is the owner who complained vigorously about the lakers/cp3 trade...not cause the lakers got cp3, but because the lakers would be lowering their lux tax bill and thus cost CLE money.

they still have to meet a min. salary anyways, Pau only helps in that dept, whether he has a future with them depends on Pau and the team performance, you can't just automatically assume Pau will leave. We all know Clev isn't going to be able to attract any big name signing anyways even with cap space.

i wasn't really assuming pau would leave, i was assuming pau is too old for their young core and would be a non factor by the time the cavs planned to make the jump into potential contender status.

The Bulls can amnesty Boozer which has been rumored for a while now. For just getting into the playoffs the Cavs wont spend 19m on a player