Chris Broussard says we are offering LO about 24-25 million, 3 years.

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    Re: Chris Broussard says we are offering about 24-25 million, 3 years.

    He won't see a better offer.
     
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    Reasonable offer. LO is probably still waiting on the rest of the cap space teams to make him an offer. I don't think anybody will, but apparently Portland may be interested (or their fans at least), so who knows. Maybe we can do a sign and trade.
     
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    That's gonna be the best offer in the market. The only one who can challenge would probably be the Blazers, but even then, they can only offer around the same amount at most, so it's cool.
     
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    Chris Broussard has been wrong the entire offseason. The Lakers are going to match what the free agent market dictates for him.

    I've been told Dr. Buss doesn't want to pay luxury tax this year so don't be surprised if the Lakers get involved with some salary dumps before the season starts. We will know the salary cap numbers on the 8th I think.
     
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    Shape, do you know what's the highest Jerry will go? What if Portland decides to throw all their money at LO? Will he match? Because if LO walks, we're screwed. We're left with JP and DJ as our primary backup bigs, and we don't even have the MLE to use since we used it on Artest. Do you think Jerry Buss and luxury tax could mean LO walking away for nothing? Or are they really committed to bringing him back.
     
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    If he's offering 8 million per year, that doesn't seem far off from what LO wants. Also I heard LO might already be ready to sign on Wednesday, vague sources though.
     
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    The highest he will go is the threshold before being into luxury tax territory. No one knows what the salary cap is going to be set at next season, but there's always an amount you can go over the salary cap before you are forced to pay luxury tax.

    For example salary cap is set at $55M Luxury tax threshold is $70M, so the Lakers would be able to go $15M over the salary cap before they have to pay any luxury tax.

    We'll see what happens. I'm sure Odom's agent is going to point out Hedo just signed for $10+ a year with Toronto, but if the Lakers are offering a reported $8M to $8.5M it should be enough to get Odom re-signed.
     
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    I'm not sure Portland would be willing to throw that much money at Odom. They weren't willing to do it for Hedo and I'm not entirely convinced Odom would be the same player he is in LA.

    With the addition of Artest the Lakers have insurance incase Odom bolts. Artest can play either forward position and is another playmaker which Odom gave us. The Lakers would just need to sign another front court player with length. There's still plenty of them in this free agent market. Antonio McDyess, Joe Smith, Drew Gooden, Andersen Varejao, Shawn Marion, Josh Childress, Marvin Williams, Chris Wilcox, Big Baby, Leon Powe, and your boy Chris Mihm.
     
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    Only problem with this is that we already spent our MLE. We only have the LLE and vet's minimum. I can't see us getting any quality backup bigs for that type of money.
     
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    They can always make a deal during mid-season or work out a sign & trade with Odom. The Lakers have more than enough to compete right now for a title. Having Odom back just gives the Lakers more flexibility and takes pressure off Bynum being forced to have a monster season in order for us to repeat.

    PG - Fisher/Farmar
    SG - Kobe/Sasha
    SF - Luke/Artest/Morrison
    PF - Gasol/Powell
    C - Bynum/Mbenga

    Hopefully the Lakers add both Brown and Odom to round out next year's squad. How good is this team?

    PG - Fisher/Brown/Farmar
    SG - Kobe/Sasha
    SF - Luke/Artest/Morrison
    PF - Gasol/Odom/Powell
    C - Bynum/Mbenga
     
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    Love the second lineup.

    Don't like the first lineup at all. You'd have to bank on Drew staying healthy for pretty much the whole year, not something I'd be willing to bet on. And the bench is rail thin. Do you think Luke will be starter? I'm pretty sure the starting SF will be Ron. Without LO, or even Shannon for that matter, our best player off the bench is either JP or Sasha. Better hope the starters can all play 40+ minutes, and wish for good health because I don't see a team that thin keeping up with Boston/Cleveland/Orlando. We need LO back, and Shannon as well IMO.
     
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    I can see Luke starting if Odom isn't back ahead of Artest. Obviously not because Luke is better, but because Artest would be the go to guy on offense with the bench mob. Luke would be a token starter and Artest would be out there with the main guys to close out 4th quarters.

    If Odom is back then I could see PJax experimenting around more with which guy starts and which guy comes off the bench. It will really depend on how fast Artest can learn the offense and be comfortable in it.

    I don't like the first lineup, but keep in mind the Lakers would need to add two more guys still if they don't re-sign Brown or Odom. Depending on who those two players are would give us a better idea of how good the team would be and how realistic a repeat would be.
     
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    Shape, what do you think are the chances LO doesn't come back next year?

    I'm pretty confident he'll be back, it's a perfect situation for him on this team. I'm just starting to get annoyed a deal hasn't been agreed to yet, and that we haven't had much updates. But then again that's what happens, I guess, when you hire a good agent. They keep most issues behind the scenes. :]

    Still don't think it makes much sense for LO to be texting Ron and trying to get him to play in LA, if he was just going to bolt elsewhere...
     
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    Who said that was a reliable source? If so, then it's pretty much clear he'll sign. Of course if we make a normal offer
     
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    I can't really put a percentage on him leaving. IMO there's always a 50/50 chance for any free agent since there's only two options .. sign or don't sign.

    From what I can tell Odom will be back next season in a Laker uniform.
     
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    Word is Portland might throw him their money.

    Odom said he'd take less for a long term deal. If the rumors are true we're only offering three years, then I wouldn't be surprised if he bolted.

    I bet he is looking for 5. Lakers offered 3. Settle on 4.
     
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    Mitch might just be waiting to see if anyone is really raising the price.

    With the rumored talks he's having though, I'd rather we offer him 9 million at 4-5 years and get it over with. That's the best deal and Lamar has businesses in LA as well. Could all just be bluffing on his part too.
     
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    Bleacher Report is mostly bullshit. It's not credible.

    Anyways, hopefully a deal gets done Wednesday. That way maybe we can see LO and Ron together getting introduced, or reintroduced as a Laker. :)
     
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