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Jazz - Lakers trade, Millsap?

akirac73

akirac73

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On our local sports radio show here in Hawaii, Eric Pincus from Hoopsworld was being interviewed discussing the Los Angeles Lakers. He mentioned that the Lakers are being agressive on the trade market and are looking to use the trade exception they gained in the Lamar Odom/Dallas trade. He said that the Utah Jazz is a team they are looking at due to their overcrowded front court of younger players. He mentioned Paul Millsap specifically.

Anyone else heard anything similar from other sources?
 
Yeah, the Jazz - who are well under the tax, have their amnesty clause, and enough over the cap that it wouldn't matter - are willing to trade their best player TO THE LAKERS FOR POINTLESS CAP ROOM.

Not. Happening.
 
What could the Lakers possibly offer? Great bigs and no wing players. Unless there's a 3rd team, a Millsap deal is wishful thinking.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Yeah, the Jazz - who are well under the tax, have their amnesty clause, and enough over the cap that it wouldn't matter - are willing to trade their best player TO THE LAKERS FOR POINTLESS CAP ROOM.

Not. Happening.
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I could maybe see it, but not Millsap. Jefferson would make more sense, financially, no?
 
PKM said:
I could maybe see it, but not Millsap. Jefferson would make more sense, financially, no?
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But why would they want Jefferson (unless they have another big trade in mind)? Trading Millsap certainly doesn't make a lot of financial sense any way you cut it, and considering that the Jazz are in salary no-man's land (too far above cap, far enough below tax that salary shedding doesn't make a lot of sense), trading Jefferson's salary is not imperative.
 
NUMBERICA said:
But why would they want Jefferson (unless they have another big trade in mind)? Trading Millsap certainly doesn't make a lot of financial sense any way you cut it, and considering that the Jazz are in salary no-man's land (too far above cap, far enough below tax that salary shedding doesn't make a lot of sense), trading Jefferson's salary is not imperative.
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You have any idea how BIG they would be with Al at SF.
 
If Big Al went to the Lakers, does he finally get to smell the playoffs? Like how it was "supposed" to work out in Utah.
 
Also a correction; The Jazz are sitting at about the cap right now. But unless they have designs to go after someone RIGHT NOW (there is no one available worth anything close to what Millsap or Jefferson's being paid and teams now have to have their payroll at 90% of the cap MIMIMUM), it doesn't make sense.

Again, this doesn't make sense. If the Jazz are trading Millsap, they're getting some good assets or a nice player back. The Lakers don't have any draft picks worth a **** (unless they want to give us their... 2015 unprotected or something), and the player that most interests me on their roster is Darius Morris.
 
I heard the same rumor last week and didn't bother posting it was so far fetched. All the Lakers have to offer would be late 1st draft picks (theirs and Dallas) and a TPE. Not nearly enough.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Also a correction; The Jazz are sitting at about the cap right now. But unless they have designs to go after someone RIGHT NOW (there is no one available worth anything close to what Millsap or Jefferson's being paid and teams now have to have their payroll at 90% of the cap MIMIMUM), it doesn't make sense.

Again, this doesn't make sense. If the Jazz are trading Millsap, they're getting some good assets or a nice player back. The Lakers don't have any draft picks worth a **** (unless they want to give us their... 2015 unprotected or something), and the player that most interests me on their roster is Darius Morris.
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I didn't know that .. that's **** is tougher to manage than I thought.
 
I`d give them Al Jefferson (and Bell and CJ) if they could manage to involve Portland and get them to give us Matthews and Camby. But in order to do that they would have to give up Gasol or Bynum, and why would they do that when it only would make their team worse?
 
This trade is not happening. The lakers do not have one thing that would help us, not one. They are desperately trying to save money and prep to rebuild so they don't miss a beat and anything we would do would ONLY help them, and do nothing for us. So, hell no.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
This trade is not happening. The lakers do not have one thing that would help us, not one. They are desperately trying to save money and prep to rebuild so they don't miss and beat and anything we would do would ONLY help them, and do nothing for us. So, hell no.
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Right, let them drown.
 
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