If a player is amnestied, his salary is still paid but it is not counted against the team's cap. Since they are the Lakers and are always in the Luxury Tax, I think they could just use Gasol's money to pay for J Smith... And I'm pretty sure J.Smith is a UFA, so you can't really do a sign and trade there... And Lakers sent all of their picks to PHX for Nash

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Posted by WB504

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Posted on 2/27/13 at 10:38 am to JusTenMillion

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If a player is amnestied, his salary is still paid but it is not counted against the team's cap. Since they are the Lakers and are always in the Luxury Tax, I think they could just use Gasol's money to pay for J Smith

They'd still be at 59 mil even if they amnesty Pau and before resigning Dwight. I think the rule is you can go over the cap to resign your own players(correct me if I'm wrong though).

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 2/27/13 at 10:56 am to JusTenMillion

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I think they could just use Gasol's money to pay for J Smith.

That's not how it works.

The salary cap is $58 million. If you are at or above $58 million then you can only use exceptions to sign people. Next season Kobe will make $30M, Howard will make $20M and Nash will make $10M. So just those 3 players put the Lakers over the salary cap.

Even if they amnesty Gasol they still would have a payroll of around $78 million if they kept Howard and Ron Artest picked up his player option. That puts them over the tax line and also puts them above the new $74 million tax penalty line which means they can't do S&T's. So even if they Amnesty Gasol they can't S&T for Smith if they keep Howard.

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