Blacken said:Enough room for one other max contract and then about $20m (maybe?) to fill out the roster.
This is going to be hilarious.
There are other ways to handle business, even the business of a legend. Those ways are probably smarter than the route the Lakers took today. The Celtics are now the envy of every front-office executive who craves a rebuilding challenge, provided the challenge comes with some nice resources. The Lakers are an expensive mediocrity overpaying a franchise star in decline.
That's fine, if that's what you want. But let's not pretend anything else is going on here.
How much value do we put on a 2019 1st though? especially since Nash probably wins us 8-10 more games.Devizier said:Boy, if there's ever a time to revisit the idea of moving Hump's expiring for Nash and a first rounder, now would be it, right?
Cellar-Door said:How much value do we put on a 2019 1st though? especially since Nash probably wins us 8-10 more games.
Cellar-Door said:How much value do we put on a 2019 1st though? especially since Nash probably wins us 8-10 more games.
Dan to Theo to Ben said:You guys realize that this doesn't really have much to do with basketball. He's the one that sells the tickets and the jerseys.
Tickets matter a little, but good teams sell more tickets than bad ones even if the bad ones have the corpse of a once star player on them.Dan to Theo to Ben said:You guys realize that this doesn't really have much to do with basketball. He's the one that sells the tickets and the jerseys.
Cellar-Door said:Edit- of course the bigger criticism is this: no other team was giving him anywhere near that much money if he hit the market, LA could likely have had him for half that without much problem.
ishmael said:You really think Kobe would tarnish his own legacy in LA if the Lakers offered him something fair like 2 years, $30 million? Who are the teams with cap space that would match that contract?.
NYCSox said:And they'll miss the playoffs and somehow magically wind up with the top pick in the draft.