DSP OTHER SPORTS Thread

Some wheels better be in the process of spinning

 

If westbrook wants to join in FA next year then great. Otherwise, unless theres a long term commitment, no selling off the future for one guaranteed year of Westbrook.

 

From the same people that are claiming they've already lost cred?
Shiiiiiid
But LAL would still have somewhere in the neighborhood of 15MM left in cap space, wouldn't have to go back on Moz/Deng deals

 

This was the last one I saw on their cap space, after the Black signing


Darius Soriano ‏@forumbluegold 14h14 hours ago
W/ Nick Young still on the roster & Zubac not yet signed, Lakers have approximately $21mil in cap space & are $12mil under the salary floor.



DLo is at 5.34MM for next season.
Westbrook at 17.7MM
So it looks like about 9MM left after that, but they'd probably have to include Black and/or Nance, so we're still talking roughly 15-16MM after a DLo/Westbrook swap

 

Especially when you consider all of our first rounders are locked up to other teams in some form or another for the next three years.

 

They would have to have a good feeling about their ability to build around Westbrook in other ways.
But I'm not about sending more than 1 of our young core anyway.
Keeping Randle, Ingram and Clarkson is enough high end youth around Westbrook, start using the cap space after that, moving pieces around.
Grabbing Westbrook's Bird rights would go a long way

 

Shams Charania ‏@ShamsCharania 2m2 minutes ago
Vertical Sources: Free agent center Zaza Pachulia has agreed to a one-year, $2.9M deal to sign with the Golden State Warriors.



That was quick

 

Interesting that Durants contract is 1 plus and opt out. Reportedly at least.

 

Yeah these elite status guys are doing the 1 and 1 contracts right now, so there's no real security for their teams other than just building the team up around them, keeping the flexibility/options open and those things perhaps keeping them happy.
You take the risk and do what you should do, which is everything possible to win anyway

 

Nick Friedell on Pau [no homo]-

" Pau's going to give SAS 15-18PPG in that system, but he's going to give up more points than that. He's a very good teammate, extremely good with the media, but what you learn about Pau is the same thing that everyone in LA knew before he got to Chicago. As far as pick and roll defense goes, he wants no part of it, so they're going to have to hide him. He's a one dimensional player in a sense that he'll give you everything he's got offensively, but he wants no part of the gritty, grimy defense night to night. "

 

Dirk resigned with the Mavericks. 19 PER player still.

2/40

 

Dirk done with the pay-cuts
Miami offered Wade the same, " stay and suck "
Wade really should go to Milwaukee, they have some damn good young pieces

 

Al Smizzle ‏@AlZeidenfeld 1h1 hour ago
In 1975-76, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar avg 27.7pts, 16.9reb, 5.0ast, 4.1blk (69.03 @DraftKings ppg), won the MVP & the Lakers MISSED THE PLAYOFFS




Westbrook the next Kareem?
Blake the next Magic, following him into the P&G in the summer of 2017?
If CP3 goes to team up with LeBron, maybe Blake leaves LAC?
Would serve Deandre right.

 

Dwade to the Bulls apparently

 

Yes confirmed. Calderon and 2 2nd rounders to us for the Bulls to clear space.

 

could have stopped there and I would have agreed still.

 

Kurt Helin‏@basketballtalk
Larry Bird on free agency: “I couldn’t imagine going to the Lakers and playing with Magic Johnson”