You've got Leonard being traded twice, both to Atlanta and New York. Also, I don't see the point of Atlanta being in the deal at all.
It's just a continuation of him taking offense to anything I post. I pretty much ignore most of his stuff now days. He's just a kid and hopefully he will mature.
Dude, there is no fucking way Boston would give you all that good shit just for Dame. They might not even trade Dame for Kyrie straight up let alone including 2 good 1st round picks and a rising star. This trade proposal is completely asinine.
While the Lakers "like their young core and would prefer to keep those players growing together, they have told teams no player is untouchable in trades," according to Tania Ganguli of the L.A. Times. The report states that Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, Julius Randle or Josh Hart could all be had for the right price. This isn't shocking, as the Lakers have long been planning to make a major push for LeBron James and/or Paul George this summer. If it takes moving one of their young studs to make that happen, the Lakers won't hesitate. Source: Los Angeles Times May 19 - 1:29 PM
The big question is "what's the right price"? When I hear a team say that, it usually means they are looking for a killing.
You're not a good GM if you can't present your vision to the owner in a way that'll get him on board.
Its funny how the normal trade idea proposers catch flack, but then when other people suggest trade ideas it's stuff like Meyers for Jaylen Brown and (the free agent) Aron Baynes.
Ah fuck. Its to send out enough salary by absorbing Plumlee with the TPE to be able to take back Mahinmi.
Revising: I'd just do the first deal. ATL Gets: Meyers Leonard, Caleb Swanigan WAS Gets: Al-Farouq Aminu, POR Gets: Ian Mahinmi, Markeiff Morris, Miles Plumlee (TPE), 15th Pick Lillard / Baldwin McCollum / Thomas Harkless / Hutchison Morris / Collins Nurkic / Davis
Paul Allen: I want you to go find some veteran players to help push this team up GM Bonesjones: But Mr. Allen, I want to tear this team apart and rebuild it so we can hopefully compete in about 4 or 5 years Paul Allen: You're fired GM Bonesjones: Aw fuck, I just screwed myself You might want to ask Rich Cho why he was fired in less than a year.
You could've been a great GM for the Clippers back in the day and have to answer to that skin flint asshole Donald Sterling....sometimes the GM isn't the problem
just saying...good GMs don't always get their way because of ownership....Paul has dumped GMs..didn't even have one in the lock out season when Larry Miller and Chad Buchanon were doing the job...Larry Miller didn't like the job much...he was supposed to be president of marketing and the business end of things.
Paul Allen: I want you to go find some veteran players to help push this team up T. Jones: We will definitely look at ways to try and improve this team. However, we don't have many assets. We have the 24th pick, which likely isn't high enough to land a true difference maker. We have the TPE, which could land a solid role player, but that player will be a Courtney Lee level of player, which is someone who wouldn't have made us win in the first round this year. We have our tax-payer MLE, but it's unlikely that we'll be able to sign someone with the $5M that the exception gives us, that's a sizeable improvement over who we have in the rotation already. Paul Allen: But I want to win. I'm paying a lot of money for a first-round exit. T. Jones: I hear ya, but with our situation, it's very unlikely that we'll be able to improve enough to make the 2nd round this off-season, outside of trying a coaching change or a different style of basketball. We just don't have enough assets to make a big splash. Therefore, I suggest we try to add another pick. There's multi-year college players in this draft that are in our range that would have the chance to help us this year, but especially a couple years from now. I suggest we try to add a pick by using the TPE to take on another team's bad contract. Many teams have bad contracts expiring in two years, so we could stack up the contracts of Leonard, Turner, Harkless, and whoever we acquire to expire in 2020. That leaves us with the flexibility to use free agency during that summer to try and make a leap, but we could also have the option of trading those guys when they're expiring, combined with the couple of rookies we acquire this year, along with future picks to acquire a star. Those contracts will be much more tradeable when they're expiring than they are now. And by that time, Houston could be on their way down, and Klay Thompson may no longer be in Golden State. Dame and CJ will still be in their prime, and Collins, Nurkic, and whoever we acquire or the more-developed younger players we draft this year will make us a contender. That's our window.
