re: Lavar campaigning for Lonzo to Charlotte

I literally just showed you all the details, cap holds and everything.

You let Lonzo walk, we are right around $102M with a cap around $115. You keep Lonzo, we have no cap space.

I wasn't really directing that at you Dan.

I'm not trying to compare this year and next year. What's the point of that?
We know the numbers for next year already, so use them.


Ingram $29.5M
Bledsoe $18.1M
Adams $17.1M
Zion $10.7M
Hayes $5.4M
Kira $3.4M
NAW $3.3M

That's $84,009,131

Thornwell and Wenyen have Team Options for $1.8 each, so if you add them, which you might as well b/c even if you don't an empty roster spot is that much, on top of Hart's cap hold of $8.7M we arrive at $96,385,035 with 10 players, so you have to add almost a million basically for each of the 2 empty roster spots, so we are somewhere around $98M. That doesn't factor in our 1st round pick, which i don't know if you have to or not, and i'm not positive on if that empty roster spot is that low or if it's a bit higher, which is why i just said we would be around $102M.
Cap is projected around $115M
Lonzo's cap hold is $28.7M, but even if you resign him for $15M/yr, we aren't going to have cap space.
You don't resign Lonzo, and we have a good $15M to work with, on top of making trades to make more room, or S&T to bring in someone who we sign for over $15M.
Or you trade Lonzo to a team with cap space, like Charlotte for someone like PJ Washington, which gets us away from the tax this year and saves us $7M, and then we only have about $10M in cap space next year, kind of just like this year. We can easily be an over the cap team by signing JJ and Hart, or we can keep our $10M and try to make a trade to get more, or do a S&T to bring back someone worth $20-25M or more if we really want to.

Are you implying that you want to bring in Lou Williams?

I think what has to happen for Atlanta to be interested in Lonzo is:

1) Lonzo plays relatively well but is clearly better suited to be a PG

2) Rondo looks like absolute shite and appears to be washed, or is a malcontent

3) One of their many many many Wings is buried on the depth chart

Then a deal could make sense for both sides wherein we send Lonzo and they send a Wing. Would probably need to include something small on our end to sweeten the pot.

Rozier is on Charlotte.

What I was implying was a 3-4 team deal with Lonzo to Charlotte, Rozier to Clippers, Reddish to Pels, and fill in the rest from there.

What I'm going for Atlanta wouldn't be getting Lonzo though.

Well your proposal doesn't make any sense because you don't even include Atlanta in it...

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Lonzo to Charlotte, Rozier to Clippers, Reddish to Pels, and fill in the rest from there.

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The "rest" is sort of important since Reddish would probably fetch a pretty high price on the open market.


I'm keeping it simple. Reddish (or wing) for Lonzo and...?

So Charlotte sends out Rozier and a pick and gets back Lonzo?

Maybe MJ is stupid enough for that but man that would be terrible for them.

Reddish to Pels kind of includes Atlanta, wouldn't you think?

Atlanta would have no use for Lonzo, not with them signing Bogie, which means Lonzo would have to be sent out to take back whatever Atlanta would find appealing.

An example that works salary wise:
Atlanta: Lou Will
Charlotte: Lonzo, Zubac
LAC: Rozier
NOP: Reddish, Reggie Jackson on S&T min

Or Lou to another team for a piece Atlanta wants. Whatever it would take