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Right Uncle Dennis is going to love seeing LA stretch Deng and taking an $80 million paycut on top of the $40 million he already lost from blowing his nephew's supermax deal.
Neither looks to have much of a chance of becoming anything special.
Right Uncle Dennis is going to love seeing LA stretch Deng and taking an $80 million paycut on top of the $40 million he already lost from blowing his nephew's supermax deal.
If he's willing to take 8M to sign there then so be it lol
Actually that’s not true. They would have to dump One of Ball or Ingram just to sign LBJ and PG this year. They pretty much have to get rid of everyone else to sign Kawhi next summer, and I mean everyone. Figure LBJ for 35% and PG and Kawhi for 30% each. That’s 95% of the cap for 3 players.
I'd be floored if PG13 doesn't sign in LA and LeBron's not going to go there with the Lakers' longterm prospects in mind. He's 33 and has a 3-4 year window to lead a team to a le. No way he's giving up a year of his prime waiting to possibly sign Kawhi when that capspace could be put towards landing Cousins, Capella, or DeAndre Jordan who could help them win right away (don't laugh, James was livid the Cavs didn't trade their #8 pick for Jordan this year). The Lakers maintaining that capspace means they wave goodbye to Randle and hope they can find someone halfway decent to take a JJ Red deal.
There is not one reason to leave the side of this poster.Come back! Come back!
He is an Ins ution on this board and should be treated with the respect he deserves.
It's not like he's changed, flip-flopped, or became another en y...
RD is the epitome of this board. I want a small statue of you to place as my hood ornament wherever I go.
Chicken strips 4evah!!!
Reports currently show that PG is strongly considering staying in OKC and Spurs are currently refusing to deal to Western teams. If neither of those dominos fall, they can kiss Lebron goodbye.
So, basically... the Lakers.
He's a shill for votes so he can continue to win, like everyone else over there.
On both sides.
Only he actually cares more about winning than what he does to win.
Which is typically the norm for politicians.
And I'm neither for, or against him. I think they all stink.
9% of the cap will actually go to the ten empty roster spots under 12 in that scenario too. After factoring in raises it would be more like 34% James, 29% George, 9% empty roster spots, and 28% Leonard. I mean 28% vs 30% for base salary probably isn't enough to dissuade him from signing, but it does chop another $9 million off his four year contract. The 34% and 29% numbers come from the 4.5% raises James and George would get for 2019-20 being less than the 7% rise in the cap for 2019-20. But like you said, the real damage here is having to dump Ball or Ingram right now and maybe both to get someone to take Deng. They have to let Randle walk. Either trade Kuzma for a future draft pick this season or renounce him next summer. Well, unless they think Kawhi is going to take a further $10 million paycut on his total contract. Instead of 4 years, $139 million it becomes 4 years, $120 million.
I just don't see LeBron agreeing to that if he goes to LA and the Spurs don't capitulate to the Lakers. All their young talent becomes nonproductive capspace instead of keeping one or two of them and then going out and signing Capella, Jordan, or Cousins.
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He looked like he quit on them in the playoffs. I think he's out.
Nah, he just choked in the playoffs like he always does, tbh.
It's all offseason Twitter speculation obviously but...I only share what I find.
But I thought, errbody at da club gettin' down
Broussard says his entire family wants him in LA.
My stance on Leonard is this:
Make him play or make him pay!
Plus, wasn't that Spurs victory the game Lonzo went unconscious from 3? 6 for 6 as I recall...something he will probably never do again, even in practice. Unless its against the Spurs again.
Another reason I think he's LA bound. Who would have figured his family wouldn't like meth and trailer parks?
Zero chance Philly would give us all that if Kawhi tells them he's signing with LA next Summer no matter what.
Good for him, amirite? So it should be the Spurs goal to make it as difficult and as costly as possible for him to go there and create a superteam. And from everything I see, the Spurs have already initiated that plan.
Brett Brown thinks he can sway him? I honestly don't think Kawhi cares about ringing again like he does being in LA tho.
I think he wants a big market. Plus Uncle Dennis would love his cash cow being close to home in Philly. I think he's saying LA to try to get that super team formed with LeBron and PG13, but when that chance dries up Philly and Boston are going to start looking appealing.
I'm not buying it. The group that cares so much about the Jordan shoe deal doesn't care about money? Right.
No to Fultz...but yes to Saric, Covington, Smith and a pick.
Thats fine.. never fault someone for that. But there are MUCH MUCH MUCH better ways of getting this ... Quitting your team, blaming problems on other people, etc is very unprofessional.
So we just don't want the #1 pick in last year's draft?
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