Lakers interested in Antonio Daniels

Morning Journal: The Cavaliers will probably make a run at one of the electrifying shooting guards. But another very good point guard is needed. Antonio Daniels would be a perfect fit, but he might be leaning toward one of the Texas teams -- either Houston or Dallas. In all, eight teams have reportedly inquired about Daniels, including Cleveland, the Lakers, Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Utah and Seattle.

swolswol wrote:DEPENDS ON THE DRAFT, IF WE DRAFT ONE OF THE TOP 3 PG's, THEN ID SAY SEND THE MLE ON A BIG, IF NOT, LOOK AT DANIELS, EARL WATSON, DUHON, OR MARCO JARIC

Lakers1 wrote:no daniels he like 29,hell no we need a big man in the free agency and a point guard in the draft.

they_perch wrote:i still say sign marco. he's a lot younger than antonio daniels, and he could come cheaper. we could probably split the bulk of the mle on marco jaric, and then use the remainder to sign steven hunter, hunter brings a good shotblocker w/ potential. he's athletic and will come over for some decent money and playtime. he played some solid defense on tim duncan in the WCF.

they_perch wrote:i still say sign marco. he's a lot younger than antonio daniels, and he could come cheaper. we could probably split the bulk of the mle on marco jaric, and then use the remainder to sign steven hunter, hunter brings a good shotblocker w/ potential. he's athletic and will come over for some decent money and playtime. he played some solid defense on tim duncan in the WCF.

abeer3 wrote:good that the lakers have at least thrown their hat in the ring. daniels would be a great fit as pg in the triangle. i'm not sure he's that far-fetched of an acquisition, either. the lakers can offer him a starting job--something very few teams on that list can do. i dont' see anyone going too far over the exception to sign him, either. remember, cleveland wants to sign a big-time shooter (redd and allen top the list) and still have to figure out whether to re-up ilgauskas, which won't be cheap. also, recent rumor has it that they may make an offer to curry. all of this may leave less left over for daniels.

anyway, he should be the lakers' #1 free agent target if they decide to go the pg route, followed by jaric, imo.

if they go for pfs, reggie evans (who probably will be too pricey) or chris andersen would be decent targets.

all things considered, daniels would be my first call.

KB8@CL wrote:
Aome things I disagree:
1. Cleveland can use MLE on him. They have enaugh cap space for Ilgauskas and Redd so they can use the FULL MLE on Daniels who is from Ohio and would like to go there and get a starting job.
2. My PFs would be Kwame and Anderson. Evans is a very good rebounder but he has ZERO inside scoring and I would want us to have an inside-outside game and have a threat in the paint offensively. Evans is ONLY a defense player and his defense isn´t anything special so I dislike him. Kwame is a risky guy but IF the new environment, coach and players are compatibel with him watch out.

abeer3 wrote:

KB8@CL wrote:
Aome things I disagree:
1. Cleveland can use MLE on him. They have enaugh cap space for Ilgauskas and Redd so they can use the FULL MLE on Daniels who is from Ohio and would like to go there and get a starting job.
2. My PFs would be Kwame and Anderson. Evans is a very good rebounder but he has ZERO inside scoring and I would want us to have an inside-outside game and have a threat in the paint offensively. Evans is ONLY a defense player and his defense isn´t anything special so I dislike him. Kwame is a risky guy but IF the new environment, coach and players are compatibel with him watch out.

1. hmmm. i'm not positive that you can be under the cap, then go over, then use the MLE. i could be wrong though. capologist in the house?

2. i think it's ok that evans doesn't need touches (or deserve them) on offense. he's kind of a poor man's rodman, which is a nice player to have on the floor with a guy like kobe. either way, it doesn't matter, as i think evans will get better offers than the MLE (not a lot better, but better).

i worry about kwame, but i'd take him. i think he too, will probably end up with more than the MLE. i think he's restricted, so if someone is going to lock him up at MLE prices, i think the wiz would be more inclined to sign and trade him than let him walk. of course, they did just boot him off the team in the middle of the playoffs, so anything's possible...

Similarly, a team can't act like they're under the cap and sign free agents using cap room, and then use their Disabled Player, $1 Million, Mid-Level and/or Traded Player exceptions. Consequently, the exceptions are added to the team salary (putting the team over the cap) if the team is under the cap and adding the exceptions puts them over the cap. If a team is already over the cap, then the exceptions are not added to their team salary. There would be no point in doing this, since there is no cap room for signing free agents.

So it is not true that being under the cap necessarily means a team has room to sign free agents. For example, assume the cap is $42.5 million, and a team has $36 million committed to salaries. They also have a mid-level exception for $4.5 million and a traded player exception for $5 million. Even though their salaries put them $6.5 million under the cap, their exceptions are added to their salaries, putting them at $45.5 million, or $3 million over the cap. So they actually have no cap room to sign free agents, and must instead use an exception.

Teams have the option of renouncing their exceptions in order to claim the cap room. So in the example above, if the team renounced their traded player and mid-level exceptions, then the $9.5 million is taken off their team salary, which then totals $36 million, leaving them with $6.5 million of cap room which can then be used to sign free agent(s).

LakersChamps04 wrote:I say Lakers sign Kwame Brown using Full MLE, and then sign Jaric using LLE...WE'LL BE SET!!!...AND we'd still keep butler, draft felton, Salim in the 2nd round, and get bender and the 17th, and maybe draft Bynum (not too sure though)