Either that is #fakenews, or missing details. LAC needs to add over $10 million in salary for that trade to work. BNM
He better. He has put himself in the unenviable position of needing to cut salary and get better at the same time. BNM
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y9v77p35 McCollum, Hill, Leonard to Cleveland Love, Frye, Richardson to Portland Shumperst, Osman to Sacramento We get pick from Cleveland.
This Trade Failed "The Clippers are over the luxury tax threshold with this trade and the incoming aggregate salaries exceeded what's allowed via the 125% plus $100,000 rule. Cut $10,639,413 from the Clippers incoming trade value to make this trade successful." The Clippers used the Non Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception or Non Taxpayer Bi-Annual Exception to sign a free agent(s) and therefore their owed tax cannot exceed $6 million at any time during the season. Cut $10,277,422 from the Clippers incoming trade value to make this trade successful." BNM
Harkless doesn't play, so it wouldn't be a loss basketball-wise, and would put us under the cap. We all want home runs, but our trade will probably look something like that. Harkless is from NY, and NY has supposedly shown previous interest.
Yes, at SportsCenter! https://twitter.com/SportsCenter___...io/iframe/twitter.min.html#955664375456595973
Spin: Hood will miss a third straight game Wednesday as he continues to recover from a lower leg bruise he suffered during Friday's tilt against New York. In his absence, Alec Burks should continue seeing extra run. http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2581177/rodney-hood
McCollum had a good game against Minnesota. I don't look at stats, I mean his errors. I saw only one butterfinger loss of the ball, which is great for him. Of course, I was cooking macaroni all through the first half, listening through headphones, but I'll assume I missed nothing, since I haven't since 1959, always sharp as a Wolf. It appears that HCP read him my posts I wrote today in this thread. HCP, you're doing a good job developing McCollum. Keep it up and we'll see whether he becomes more focused. Speaking of doing two things at once, I burned the macaroni, so McCollum outplayed me tonight on errors, but I'll hit the gym (snack bar) and there's always the next game.
Now is the time for Neil to make a move on some big trades... the team has been winning so our players are more desirable. Trade CJ for Kevin Love, Nurk + salary filler for DeAndre. Starting 5: Dame-Turner-Aminu-Love-DeAndre... that looks like a true contender to me. And I think both trades are there if Neil wants them. The worse thing that can happen is to be fooled by the recent success and stand pat... this roster is talented but mismatched. Strike while the iron is hot Neil!
Thank god you're not the GM. CJ is just as good as Love. So why the hell would we do that? Love is 29 while CJ is only 26. What does swapping CJ for Love do? We don't get better. Our defense stays the same as both are poor defenders. Our offense stays the same as well, and probably gets worse as CJ is a better scorer than Love. Rebounding isn't a problem. Trade Nurk for DeAndre?! DeAndre would leave after this year, or we'd have to pay him $30M a season for the next 4 years to bring him back (in 2 years he will be an average NBA C as athleticism is the first thing to go. He's already declining.) 2 years from now, Nurk will be better. That team is not a true contender at all. That team isn't better than we are now and the future looks much, much bleaker. So many shortsighted trade ideas lately that are coming from an obvious place of fans wanting moves to be made.
