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  1. HailBlazers

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    Not to mention its only been two frickin days. With multimillions of dollars on the line.
     
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    One odd little factoid to this whole clusterfuck.

    Teams with cap room are willing to go after LMA...but teams that would have to do a S&T aren't exactly breaking down the door.

    If the guy isn't worth giving up something to acquire - how much do you actually value him?
     
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    I have the Spurs at 39.2 for Parker, Diaw, Green, Mills, and Leonard. That number will go up after Green and Leonard officially sign as they currently count less but it would be very easy to sign LA first. There are still other cap holds that would need to be lowered including Duncan, Joseph, and Ginobili.

    It is quite possible that they asked him to take less than the MAX.
     
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    He covers the Knicks. Must be salty
     
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    He's not a Franchise Savior. I think we all know that. But a lot of teams see him as a Big Piece. Those teams have made room to sign him by getting rid of decent-to-good players he'd be an improvement over. The S&T candidates would have to gut a big piece of their roster, AND a good enough player that WE agree to do the S&T, to get LA, because chunks of their salary are locked up in bad players we'd never agree to take back. That basically means they'd have to trade the good player he'd compliment in order to lure him there, and that's a non-starter for both sides.
     
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    Two teams didn't make trades for Kevin Love... Spurs (Splitter) and Suns (signed Chandler, traded some stuff to detroit for nothin)

    Aldridge could bone multiple teams in this process.

    and KLove wasn't a free agent, he was traded to the Cavs. Not comparable, IMO
     
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    Greg Foster left a long tenure with Stockton and Malone to sign with the Lakers and win a ring for playing 2 minutes in a season...so I guess he's better than Lamarcus too
     
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    ESPN and CNN have both done specials on how foolish athletes are when it comes to financial decisions, now LMA is being criticized for taking his time when making the biggest financial decision in his career?!?
     
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    New York press is probably even more butthurt than the Los Angeles press.
     
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    He's not wrong though
     
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    Honestly, I think half the league is butthurt. If he doesn't sign with us, I might be one of them...
     
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    Knicks are apparently offering RoLo 12-13 million a year! Could we match that with Aldridge? I can't see Aldridge wanting to come back without Robin.
     
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    would be a great mentor for Portzingis.
     
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    You probably shouldn't have made that wager...
     
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    Touche, he was traded. But made a stir, right? Multiple teams We're going after him. One more season, he would've been doing the same thing as LMA. And he was an unproven playoff player, notoriously bad defense. I guess I'm just butt hurt about the treatment haha. Either way, any team would love to have LMA on their team. Regardless of only making it to the second round. And agreeing with most of you, Isola is so sour about the Knicks lol.
     
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    So no word on how the meeting with Riley went?
     
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    He's technically correct but I dislike the implication
     
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