2018 Off-Season Thread

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by georgiafan

Philly might want to hire a GM

Or..... Use that in their Lebron negotiations. Lebron can pick his own gm.

[cam21224]

I'm all in for Khawi as long as we don't send out any future draft picks and get to keep one or two out of the three (Ingram, Kuz, Ball).

Big fat NO for Bron *non basketball reasons

A hypothetical defensive lineup of Khawi, George and Bron though sounds great and if we were able to keep Ingram stick him at PG a man can dream

Must fight off these rumors

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by ojandpizza

How does all of that work with them having his bird rights, would have Kawhi's bird rights also. Can they still sign guys since retaining Randle and assuming Kawhi's money would allow them to go over? I'm not familiar with the how, if, and whens of this stuff. Seems like every off-season something new happens that I didn't even know was possible lol

With Randle's bird rights, the Lakers can go over the cap to sign him, but he still counts against their salary cap as $12 million until he signs a new deal, which hurts their chances of being able to sign other guys like LeBron/PG13. I'm guessing they'll have to renounce his cap hold and let him walk unrestricted in order to make 3 max guys work but I haven't done the exact math on that yet.

[georgiafan]

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...ba-free-agency

Good read on the lakers and how they get all 3 guys to work


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[jeremym480]

Pop has a rule against trading players to teams in the West and I think the deal would have to be extra sweet in order for him to deal him within the conference.... and especially to the Lakers. Obviously, he's going to do what is best for the Spurs but I just can't see him helping the Lakers build a super team.

[dubcity]

Danny Green still say everything is fine, I'm sure. Media just lying again.

[ojandpizza]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeremym480

Pop has a rule against trading players to teams in the West and I think the deal would have to be extra sweet in order for him to deal him within the conference.... and especially to the Lakers. Obviously, he's going to do what is best for the Spurs but I just can't see him helping the Lakers build a super team.

We were just talking about this at work, but it would seem like if they sat down and talked already, and now it's coming out that he wants to be in LA, that maybe their discussion was that Pop would do him a solid. We've saw it happen plenty of times over the years, just never with Pop lol.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by CMH

Per usual there's also in fighting among the Knicks fanbase. I personally am not about the acquire Kawhi at all costs perspective. We just spent the last 20 years asking the Knicks to stop doing these things. To actually rebuild. And now Leonard is available and we think surrendering more youth to acquire him would suddenly make the Knicks good again? Can anyone name the last time a team in the Knicks position acquired a star player and saw immediate success? Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

Not to mention KP will likely miss the entire season. We're very close to being a great spot.

1) Got KP
2) Got Frank (eff the haters)
3) Add a solid rotation piece next week (either Bridges kid or Knox)
4) Suck next year without KP and get a high draft pick

If we trade for Kawhi we're still going to suck next year and he could potentially walk in 2020.

Quote: Originally Posted by Yeah...THAT Guy

Chris Mannix is reporting that the Sacramento Kings are a team to keep an eye on to try to trade for Kawhi; presumably including the #2 pick in the draft.

Watch this happen, the Spurs draft Doncic and turn him into the star Euro-freak Pop has always longed for.