Melo to LAC, Clips go for 2019, ORL gets assets

[MoneyTalks41890]

LAC out: Gallo, Lou, Bev
LAC in: Melo, Vuc

Clippers reset and dump a ton of salary.

ORL out: Vuc, DJ, Simmons, OKC 1st top 20 prot
ORL in: Gallo, Bev, Ferg, Abrines, 2019 OKC 1st unp, 2021 OKC 1st lotto prot

Magic get assets for taking salary.

OKC out: Melo, Ferg, Abrines, 2019 1st unp, 2021 1st lotto prot
OKC in: Lou, DJ, Simmons, 2020 1st

Thunder get needed pieces.

[SportsFan215]

LAC gives up too much here. Beverley and Lou are two of their best assets.

[Vae Victus]

Hmmm... does OKC want Lou? LAC will happily keep him and toss a SRP + cash to help compensate for missing value. OKC might want to just focus on a bigger luxury tax reduction (taking in Lou makes their tax bill jump a decent) as they're already getting enough bench pieces from ORL.

LAC
C - Vucevic, Gortat, Boban
PF- Melo (or bought out), Harrell, Dekker
SF- Harris, WesJ, Wallace
SG- Robinson, Lou, Evans
PG- SGA, Teodosic, Thornwell

For the Clips i dig this very much. All dat 2019 cap space and the Logo at the helm, YUM!

[QRich3]

It's a fair trade value wise, but as most of us Clippers fans have been saying in every dump-Gallo thread (which seem to be most Clippers threads here nowadays) it doesn't make a lot of sense direction wise.

The Clippers are gonna have about $60M in capspace already with Gallo on the books, it makes more sense to use those assets to bring in picks or young players than using them to have $80M in capspace, since they're not gonna have much more use for $80M in free agents than they would for $60M.

[Eskobar13]

Yeah I like the idea and the value, but if I'm the Clippers I rather try to rehab a bit of Gallo's value before trading him away or just keep him if it comes to it.

For OKC I like this, not sure if the owners would, but our ceiling rises considerably.

Orlando should do this deal 10/10 times.