IF....that is the case, New Orleans is going to have WAY too many players on their roster and will have to move some of them. Not NEAR a an All-NBA player in the lot. What garbage. Agents driving stuff like this is bad for the league.
This is a key point. During the season, there is a hard limit on how many players they can have on their roster BEFORE the trade. New Orleans would have to make some moves before accepting this kinda deal.
The Pelicans have the full 15 players plus a 2-way. Adding a 5-2 trade means you have to trade 3 players in a hurry before that or start waiving contracts. Portland having an extra roster spot could come in handy.
They already have 15 players and a two way contract. So if the deal is 5 players for 2, they'd have to cut/trade 3. Guessing they'll trade Mirotic and someone else for a player and pick (Niko + Frazier for Harkless + pick works). They'd still need to cut two more. What a mess. There's no reason to even do this now. Wait til the summer.
not necessarily....the Lakers offer is for 32M more that AD's salary an the Pelicans have a lot of small salaries: Ian Clark $1,757,429 Tim Frazier $1,621,415 Jahlil Okafor $1,567,007 Cheick Diallo $1,544,951 Frank Jackson $1,378,242 Kenrich Williams $838,464 the Lakers could take back some of those players....I'd imagine they'd actually want to and need to if they traded 40% of their roster away
