LO Trade Bait This Summer? (Sun-Sentinel p.16)

This makes sense because the Lakers are already very much over the cap aftre the Gasol deal and because I dont see Odom taking a pay cut to resign with the Lakers on a long term.For all we know Odom might do something crazy if we win the championship this year and say something like this "after my contract is expired I'm going to retire from the game, I've accomplished everything I wanted".

If they trade him for a high draft pick.I really want UCLA's Kevin Love.

Punk-101 wrote:It gonna be Odom to the grizzlies for Miller and the high pick.

Highly doubtful. They did their cap space move already with Pau.

If they're moving Miller, they're moving him to get a draft pick back.

joshua1516 wrote:Why should we trade odom. He can do so many things that other players cannot. Rebounding, fast breaks, passing, and size. You lose a lot if you trade him.

You wanna know why? Business! Don't forget this is stll a business and they dont wanna be playing around with there own money, plain & simple.

knm131 wrote:

Punk-101 wrote:It gonna be Odom to the grizzlies for Miller and the high pick.

Highly doubtful. They did their cap space move already with Pau.

If they're moving Miller, they're moving him to get a draft pick back.

They can have our late 20's pick

If Odom goes for a pick, there has to be salary coming back. The other team has to be willing to give up its top pick plus a salary acceptable to the Lakers for Odom. Unless it's something like the Chicago trade proposed in this thread, I don't see it happening.

Punk-101 wrote:

knm131 wrote:

Punk-101 wrote:It gonna be Odom to the grizzlies for Miller and the high pick.

Highly doubtful. They did their cap space move already with Pau.

If they're moving Miller, they're moving him to get a draft pick back.

They can have our late 20's pick

Umm...We dont have any 1st round pick this year, we gave that up in the Gasol deal.

Punk-101 wrote:

knm131 wrote:

Punk-101 wrote:It gonna be Odom to the grizzlies for Miller and the high pick.

Highly doubtful. They did their cap space move already with Pau.

If they're moving Miller, they're moving him to get a draft pick back.

They can have our late 20's pick

Dont they already have our pick?

^^

IDK, probably. i was just being silly.

jlkr wrote:If Odom goes for a pick, there has to be salary coming back. The other team has to be willing to give up its top pick plus a salary acceptable to the Lakers for Odom. Unless it's something like the Chicago trade proposed in this thread, I don't see it happening.

Then how did Charlotte trade for Jason Richardson, or Boston for Ray Allen?

vaheblings wrote:

jlkr wrote:If Odom goes for a pick, there has to be salary coming back. The other team has to be willing to give up its top pick plus a salary acceptable to the Lakers for Odom. Unless it's something like the Chicago trade proposed in this thread, I don't see it happening.

Then how did Charlotte trade for Jason Richardson, or Boston for Ray Allen?

Charlotte had cap with only G-Wall making significant money.

Boston traded away Wally along with the pick to get Allen.

I'm not saying your source isn't legit, but I'm thinking its way too premature to say he's gone this summer when we haven't seen our skyline yet....at all....and we might not get to see them at full strength till next season.

How can you F with a mobile 6-10, 7-0, 7-1 front-line?

LA would be doing a disservice to the possibilities if they didn't give that line up a chance. The playoffs is a small sample size. They would need at least some of next season to see how this works out. So, LO at the deadline could be a possibility, but IMO it seems far more probable than dealing him outright this summer...especially if we win the title.

The only way they deal him is if LO lays a complete egg in the playoffs or impedes the camaraderie of our two 7 footers.

Also one other thing to note. Normally teams that have high draft picks, have them for a reason. They either don't have the right star players (ie NY) or they just don't have star players (and their salaries) at all (ie Grizz). The teams that don't have star players are the teams that are way under the cap. So why would they trade away a pick to add even more cap?

It makes no sense.

Vasashi17 wrote:

vaheblings wrote:

jlkr wrote:If Odom goes for a pick, there has to be salary coming back. The other team has to be willing to give up its top pick plus a salary acceptable to the Lakers for Odom. Unless it's something like the Chicago trade proposed in this thread, I don't see it happening.

Then how did Charlotte trade for Jason Richardson, or Boston for Ray Allen?

Charlotte had cap with only G-Wall making significant money.

Boston traded away Wally along with the pick to get Allen.

I'm not saying your source isn't legit, but I'm thinking its way too premature to say he's gone this summer when we haven't seen our skyline yet....at all....and we might not get to see them at full strength till next season.

How can you F with a mobile 6-10, 7-0, 7-1 front-line?

LA would be doing a disservice to the possibilities if they didn't give that line up a chance. The playoffs is a small sample size. They would need at least some of next season to see how this works out. So, LO at the deadline could be a possibility, but IMO it seems far more probable than dealing him outright this summer...especially if we win the title.

The only way they deal him is if LO lays a complete egg in the playoffs or impedes the camaraderie of our two 7 footers.

Also one other thing to note. Normally teams that have high draft picks, have them for a reason. They either don't have the right star players (ie NY) or they just don't have star players (and their salaries) at all (ie Grizz). The teams that don't have star players are the teams that are way under the cap. So why would they trade away a pick to add even more cap?

It makes no sense.

I aint saying i dont agree with you, i do luv LO all im saying is this is what i was told, and im just sharing i didn't have to, but im just passing on the note. Thats all. Now i guess we would have to wait & see this June to see what happens

vaheblings wrote:

LO7cK35 wrote:if we win a championship, there is no way odom is going anywhere. otherwise of course he may be shopped we already knew this from the whole contract extension thing.

From the things ive herd even if we win he aint getting that extension, they dont wanna commit to so much players for so long, they already are stuck with: Radmanovic/Walton for another 3-4 years, then they got Kobe 2 deal with, then Gasol has another 3 years left and then Bynum has to get extended. Then we gotta re-sign Sasha/Turiaf and worry about Farmar in a year or 2

This is actually what I was thinking too. The thinking here seems to be, wait till we see what he does with Bynum and Gasol and my question is what happens if he plays well? The numbers he's put up in the last 30 games are amazing (something close to 15-10 on 57% shooting) and if he maintains that kind of production, he deserves a pretty fat contract. With the Lakers committed to so many other players (Kobe, Gasol, Luke, Vlad and you can pretty much be assured Bynum's getting a max extension), I don't know if the Lakers will want to pay that much when we could very well be a contender with a less expensive player at that position.

HUH?

Wow.

This is unfathomable.

L.O., Pau, and Drew-B have yet to even step on the court TOGETHER.
That front line has the potential to be the most dominant EVER.

You're talking about a front line that history may have a ton of difficulty repeating.


I don't see how there could be a "CONCRETE DECISION" on letting go L.O. already when you don't even know what you're working with.

Talk about counting the eggs before they hatch, geeeez.


It's basically like getting a dimepiece's number at a club, and making the decision not to ever call her because you're under the impression that you can't afford the broad.

No sense, what so ever.

I'll play ... because reguardless of when ..he will be traded before the start of next season..

LO PAU and Bynum cost too much..

So I will give you What I would do ..

Farmar Rad and Odom ( about 20 mill in yearly salary) I would send to the east this could change a franchise and mak them a contender in the east..my targets would be

Joe Johnson ..

Michael Redd

Richard Jefferson

Jamal crawford ( and change) ..which I do believe that the knicks would be the best trading partner followed by the bulls..


outside shot ..Artest

I like the Chicago trade as well you add Hinrich and Nocioni with Kobe and Gasol and Bynum it's a wrap

Punk-101 wrote:It gonna be Odom to the grizzlies for Miller and the high pick.

Screw that..I'd give them Odom for Mikey Miller straight up. When Gasol and Bynum get healthy, words could not describe how many open looks Miller would get.

Weezy wrote:

The Maverick wrote:L4L proposed this trade in another thread.

Lamar Odom, Jordan Farmar and Luke Walton for Andres Nocioni Kirk Hinrich.

I'd love that trade, and if the rumors are true about Larry Brown becoming the Chicago coach, I think he'd do it too.

I also love that trade, Hinrich to me is the ideal Tri PG, he's tall, he can defend and he can shoot. Nocioni would also be a big upgrade from Luke.

I'm sorry, but is this the same Hinrich who shoots a career 414% and makes 11mil per year? lol i'll pass

LosAngelesLove wrote:

Weezy wrote:

The Maverick wrote:L4L proposed this trade in another thread.

Lamar Odom, Jordan Farmar and Luke Walton for Andres Nocioni Kirk Hinrich.

I'd love that trade, and if the rumors are true about Larry Brown becoming the Chicago coach, I think he'd do it too.

I also love that trade, Hinrich to me is the ideal Tri PG, he's tall, he can defend and he can shoot. Nocioni would also be a big upgrade from Luke.

I'm sorry, but is this the same Hinrich who shoots a career 414% and makes 11mil per year? lol i'll pass

If you think about it 414% is the best in the NBA.

All jokes aside, he plays great D and has range to spread the floor. We need D at the PG spot.

odom and farmar for marion and draft pick.

draft Rose or OJ Mayo

Rose
Kobe
Marion
Gasol
Bynum

The Maverick wrote:L4L proposed this trade in another thread.

Lamar Odom, Jordan Farmar and Luke Walton for Andres Nocioni Kirk Hinrich.

I'd love that trade, and if the rumors are true about Larry Brown becoming the Chicago coach, I think he'd do it too.

In a New York Minute!!

LO for Mike Miller and pick was exactly what I was thinking also. But why would the Griz do this? Unless they would add a bad contract like Cardinal to even out the #'s and for it to make sense for them. So they would basically get rid of a bad contract, a great pick, and a very decent contract in Miller for Odom's expiring.

Unless the Griz have a plan for 2 summers from now, I don't know how that would work out for them.

If we win the championship, LO will be offered a new contract but they will give him something around the 7-8M per season. That is if he accepts. We all know that 14M per that Riley gave him is too extravagant and way overpriced for Odom. A 7-8M per season deal is just about right.

If we don't win it all and one of the glaring weakness identified is our SF spot, then LO is trade bait till next season's deadline (just like Marion).

Or it could be that they are really serious about limiting the luxury tax they pay. Which means they will just let Odom play out next season irregardless of what happens this year. Then Ariza, Radmanovic and Luke becomes our SF triumvirate. Gasol plays full time PF and Bynum the full time center.

Why do you guys want Mike Miller? That guys defense is worse than Odoms! And do we really need more 3pt shooters? We already have Sasha, Famar, Vlad chugging up tons of 3s. It just doesnt make sense to trade someone of LOs unique talent for something we have an abundence of.

The_Lamar_Show wrote:Why do you guys want Mike Miller? That guys defense is worse than Odoms! And do we really need more 3pt shooters? We already have Sasha, Famar, Vlad chugging up tons of 3s. It just doesnt make sense to trade someone of LOs unique talent for something we have an abundence of.

If I'd be the one to make the choice, I'd take Battier. Perfect role player SF who can D up and shoot from outside. He's got great basketball IQ too.

Even if Lamar plays well when Gasol and Bynum gets back, it's almost financially IMPOSSIBLE to keep him. They cannot afford to resign Lamar while handing out extensions to Bynum, Turiaf, and Sasha. Unless Lamar plans to take a huge pay cut in the form of the MLE, then I don't see how it is financially feasible.

Logically though, I don't see how anyone can expect Odom to put up the same #'s playing 4th string. It's a waste of his talent and Buss's money. Trading him is not a knock at him but rather a smart business decision.