DEEP3CL wrote:Aki wrote:dAdodadevil wrote:yeah i would rather trade Blake and Meeks than Hill ...
with our recent acquisitions i believe that either blake or meeks will be traded ...
doesn't get the lakers under the mythical luxury tax though... because we still need a minimum of 13 players on the roster, and that means we'd still be a couple of 1.XX mil off
hill fortunately, can be replaced, especially if that replacement is a vet min salary lamar. and i'm pretty sure lamar is would fit in better under a d'antoni team than hill anyway
that said, we don't have to do it right away
OK Aki I admire your financial expertise on the tax situation, but from a basketball standpoint which many of us are looking at it from.....we have no one that can bring what Hill brings.
I get the LO fit, but if Pau is going to be our center than he needs to be next to J-Hill so Hill can absorb some of that physical play in the interior. This is why many say Hill can't be traded, and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't our tax bill less than half now of what it was ?
I don't see why that should be the case. Seeing as we have Kaman to take on that role.
I believe our tax bill has been reduced from potential 85 mil (with Dwight) to now a paltry 6 to 7 mil (after amnestying world peace, waiving Duhon), but make a trade or two more to get under that lux tax, and we'll gain roughly 10 mil (not paying tax, getting lux tax payments from tax paying teams and whatever money we also save by dealing Blake and Hill for minimum contracts). Not chump change.
But the real major advantage to doing so, is that we reset the count on not hitting the repeater tax (if you are paying LT 4/5 previous seasons) a season early.
And given our supposed free agency plans in 2014 and 2015, all it really takes are maximum contracts and a couple of uses of the full MLE and we're there paying tax again. (Just look at Miami).
Flexibility is the name of the game now and hitting our goals a year early, (especially in a year in which we're expected to fight for the 8th seed probably is good business sense). 6 years from now, if we're not paying an additional 30 million in repeater tax in another season where we're going to the finals with a stacked team, I would look back to this season when Mitch kupchak found a way to deal Blake and Hill to save money in a down season for the Lakers
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