Next summer....go after Marc Gasol!

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    Anyone else hoping this is the plan? Any cap experts out there know what our cap holds will look like? I'm wondering how realistic it would be to have a max contract spot without gutting our core.
     
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    I am hoping for a S&T for him so we can upgrade SG. or SF
     
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    Gasol with Lopez on the bench? Yes please.
     
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    There's a thread about the cap holds next summer here.
     
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    Cool. Thanks.
    If we renounce someone's rights can we still sign them afterwards?
    It would sure be nice to see a big jump from CJ or Barton to make Wes more expendable.
     
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    ESPN guys think the Knicks are already preparing to make a run at him next summer.
     
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    Makes sense if they retain Melo this year. Would be the perfect big in the triangle system.
     
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    Only if he will be a backup center.
     
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    Isn't Brook Lopez a free agent next year? Getting the Lopez brothers to team up would be pretty cool and would be an incentive for Robin to re-sign too. Would be expensive and scary prospect with his foot problems though.
     
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    You can, but under the same rules as any free agent--no Bird rights, so you can't exceed the salary cap to sign them.
     
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    I'd love for the blazers to go after M. Gasol, but it would be foolhardy to focus on a specific player, because you run the risk of being jilted like the Rockets were with Bosh.
     
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    They could be like Henrik Sedin & Daniel Sedin playing side by side.
     
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    The question you have to ask is.......Is Olshey friends with his agent?
     
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