NBA Off-Season Moves

[Hicks123 [enjin:6700838]]

Guessing Randle will be in the Will Barton territory ($13MM per), which would put him at a similar place to Taj from an annual standpoint.

I think this is a great idea that would work out for both sides. Taj is certainly a guy the Lakers would covet for his leadership, defense and expiring contract flexibility. And Randle is a guy that would play really well off the guys on this roster. He is a creative ball-handlers, emerging scorer and fits well from an age standpoint. He seems like a bit of an odd dude, but he certainly has talent we should be looking for.

[Coolbreeze44]

I realize Lebron is a unique athlete with supernatural ability, but my hope is father time begins to make its' presence felt. He will turn 34 early in the season next year. Normally a player that age would be clearly out of their prime, but Lebron may have been at his best last year. Still, I have a hard time believing Lebron will be performing at last years' level in years 2-4 of the contract. Hopefully injuries start to chip away at his playing time too.

[Coolbreeze44]

Guessing Randle will be in the Will Barton territory ($13MM per), which would put him at a similar place to Taj from an annual standpoint.

I think this is a great idea that would work out for both sides. Taj is certainly a guy the Lakers would covet for his leadership, defense and expiring contract flexibility. And Randle is a guy that would play really well off the guys on this roster. He is a creative ball-handlers, emerging scorer and fits well from an age standpoint. He seems like a bit of an odd dude, but he certainly has talent we should be looking for.

I'm good with that. But you know Thibs and his ex-Bulls.............

[Monster]

Lakers sign Rondo 1 year 9 million. It's like they are collecting all the weird players together on one team. They renounced Randle. Please they need to get Cousins and sign Nick Young to the min. Lol

[Lipoli390]

I think Dieng would fit in nicely as the starting C for the Lakers. 15 mill per year is bad for a back up C playing 10 minutes a game, but it isnt bad if hes your starting C and playing 30 minutes.

Dieng for Deng. Saves the lakers 3 mil this year and they get the better player. Wolves get out of dieng longer contract.

I know there are Aldrich back for the min rumors.

Who knows just throwing out ideas

I was thinking Randle s&t for dieng. It doesn't help our cap, but it does balance the roster a bit.

Randle can play small ball c and then take over for taj.

Let bjelly go, then use mle on bradley.

I'd love to get Julius Randle. But there's no way the Lakers would do that deal. And it's not even because they consider Randle better than Dieng. It's because the Lakers won't tie up a significant part of their remaining $16 million in cap space on multi-year deals. Right now, the Lakers are all about having cap space next summer to land another star to pair with LeBron. Next summer's list of free agents will be rich with elite players, including Kawhi Leonard.

To that end, here's a thought. How about Taj Gibson in a sign-and-trade for Randle? Gibson would be a great fit for the Lakers this upcoming season. He'd shore up a position of need with a very solid veteran and his contract would expire at the end of the season. Meanwhile, the Wolves could sign Randle to a multi-year deal.

Lip that is an interesting idea. To me the question is what are the salary demands of Randle...which could be key for both sides of the deal. If the Lakers can keep him cheap enough...they probably would just resign him. How much would the Wolves be willing to spend on him? Cam and I have been on Julius Randle bus for years now but idk what kind of money I would feel comfortable giving him. What were you thinking? I'd be curious what Cam or others would sign him for in this theoretical deal that probably wouldn't happen. :)

Monster - You can see my Randle sign-and-trade idea fleshed out in the other thread I just started. The Wolves could start Randle's salary at 25% more than Gibson's $14 million in a sign-and-trade. That would be $3.5 million more or $17.5 million. However, the Wolves only have $1.183 million in luxury tax space left after all the other roster spots are filled. So at most, the Wolves could offer Randle $15,183,248 his first year. That might be enough if they offer him the max escalation each year with a 2 or 3-year player option to get out of the deal. I think that could be enough since he'd be brought in to fill a starting role on a playoff contender.

[thedoper]

Cousins to the Warriors. This is beyond lame. I quit.

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

Cousins to the Warriors. This is beyond lame. I quit.

Wow, that is just bizarre! But Cousins has made every team he has played on worse in my opinion (the Pelicans really took off after Cousins got hurt last season) and maybe he can destroy another team. I will be actively cheering against GS next year.

[thedoper]

Cousins to the Warriors. This is beyond lame. I quit.

Wow, that is just bizarre! But Cousins has made every team he has played on worse in my opinion (the Pelicans really took off after Cousins got hurt last season) and maybe he can destroy another team. I will be actively cheering against GS next year.

Career and physical rehab. I can't see how he ruins that team. So awful.

[Monster]

Cousins to GS maybe he isn't healthy or other stuff but OMG that's nuts. They went from Zaza to Javele to Cousins at C. What an offseason this is.

[TAFKASP]

Cousins to GS maybe he isn't healthy or other stuff but OMG that's nuts. They went from Zaza to Javele to Cousins at C. What an offseason this is.

What reason is there to watch the NBA? The league has become, effectively, two or three Globetrotters teams and a shitload of Generals. Something tells me I'm going to have a bunch of extra time on my hands this winter.