Post#43 » by Dr Aki » Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:23 pm
playing around with some numbers... this summer, it's hard to get a third guy THIS SUMMER
if you waive the NGs and renounce everyone (inc. randle), lakers have $60,616,736 in space.
you would then need to package deng + lonzo (minimum salary) to the spurs for kawhi (20.1), get kawhi to waive his 15% trade kicker, to gain enough cap space to sign both lebron and george. if the spurs want ingram and kuzma instead, it introduces more cap holds into the equation, and we'd no longer be able to max out george and lebron (though they wouldn't miss that small amount of salary).
now, this is going to much harder for other stars earning more than 20.1 million like kawhi:
- lillard - 28 million
- cousins - est. 30.3 mil
basically, if we want to grab a third guy, it won't be this summer, i think will have to be a mid-season trade at the earliest.
if the lakers dump deng in his entirety, we gain the ability to retain randle (plus a little 2.18 mil extra, if we want to use that space to sign someone like jeff green), randle would then need to kept until Dec 15 when he's available to be traded, and wouldn't have any funny base year compensation shenanigans attached to his contract.
the lakers would then be able to trade for kawhi (or whoever else), with enough salary ballast. then this becomes an issue of who to give the spurs for kawhi, which is dependent on how much leverage kawhi has on the spurs:
- if he agrees to the super max extension, he can't actually sign it until he opts out in 2019, which means he wouldn't get it if we trade for kawhi
- if he doesn't agree, then he's a pending free agent, and he can dictate who the spurs can get value for him from, i.e. demand a trade to the lakers, heck he even gets a nice 3 million dollar trade kicker to whet his appetite for a max extension from the lakers
