**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

reconic supreme said:
Lakers are loaded, my goodness, just need to bring back kieff somehow
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he comes back very easily

its a matter of whether he wants to play with lakers for 2.8 mill....

or take 3.6 from clippers (if thats even an offer)...they may wanna save that for a point guard.
 
if mcgee had opted out, he could have chosen where he was playing next year. maybe NY for the vet min but at least his choice. or maybe even gotten himself a 2 year deal somewhere.
 
If we can bring back Kieff sheesh

I’m surprised his market is really slow, he showed up on some of those playoffs games.
 
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tupac003 said:
I would feel much better about this if we had Dwight...I'm worried about the center position.
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ya man wonder how howard feels right now. im sure morey was selling him on a bigger role like "youre a hall of famer, you should be posting up and having plays run for you" and he was like "youre right!! wtf!" certified MORON
 
Gasol to the Lakers and the hard cap: Explaining what happened and why (Sun. 8:25 p.m.)
Lakers, Cavs, Raptors: So let’s try to explain what happened with the Lakers tonight, and how the Cavaliers and Raptors figured into it.

Hemmed in by the hard cap because they used their full mid-level exception on Montrezl Harrell, as I wrote last night, the Lakers really painted themselves into a corner. All they could do for their last four contracts was sign players for the $1.6 million veteran’s minimum, because any other amount would put them over the hard cap of $138.9 million.

Here’s the problem: The Lakers wanted to sign Marc Gasol to a two-year minimum deal. And as a veteran with at least 10 years of service, Gasol’s contract would count as $2.65 million on a two-year deal. The Lakers’ margins were so tight that it was impossible for them to come up with the extra million.

Well, unless they traded somebody. And in particular, if they traded somebody in a way that not only saved money, but also turned one player into two. By virtue of doing so, they would have one less roster spot to fill and more money to do the filling.

Enter JaVale McGee, who makes $4.2 million this season. The Lakers canvassed the league and found a team in Cleveland that had two fungible, cheap contracts ($1.76 million for both Jordan Bell and Alfonzo McKinnie), and would take on McGee in return for those players and a second-round pick.

Since both players had non-guaranteed deals, there was another technicality. The Lakers will need to guarantee $637,204 of one player’s salary and the entirety of the other, which gives them some in-season flexibility to waive one of these two players and sign a buyout guy. Alternatively, the player they give the small guarantee (likely Bell) could also be waived and stretched for a $212,402 cap charge, allowing the Lakers to sign another player for the $1.6 million minimum in his place.

The other key piece of this is that the Lakers should now be able to re-sign Markieff Morris at a 20% raises on his minimum contract, as a non-Bird free agent. That would get them up to a salary of $2,797,912 to bring Morris back, and as with Gasol above they can offer him a second year with a player option as part of the deal.

After all this, the Lakers will have one open roster spot and about $3.7 million left below the hard cap line, which would give them the leeway to offer another “one-plus-one” two-year minimum deal to a free-agent guard. (The backcourt is looking a bit thin right now). If they waive Bell, as noted above, that’s another spot, but it might not be big enough to allow a “one-plus-one’ two-year minimum.

At the end of all this the Lakers have Gasol instead of McGee, but it cost them a second-round pick and the addition of two back-end bench players that they didn’t really want. But L.A. did preserve just enough flexibility to bring Morris back and sign another guard. The Lakers should also have enough financial wiggle room in-season to fill that last roster spot for the second half of the season.
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aepps20 said:
Hopefully we get Boogie.
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boogie isnt ready at start of season which leads me to believe the guy is WAYYY more injured then we thought. He's had 1.5 years now off and hes still not ready.

he can be signed mid season if he shows that he is good.


interesting article above. I guess its better we keep both bell and Mckinnie and use that last roster spot to get a 2 year vet min guy.
 
Delusionallakerfan said:
boogie isnt ready at start of season which leads me to believe the guy is WAYYY more injured then we thought. He's had 1.5 years now off and hes still not ready.

he can be signed mid season if he shows that he is good.


interesting article above. I guess its better we keep both bell and Mckinnie and use that last roster spot to get a 2 year vet min guy.
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I didn't realize that he wasn't ready.
 
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