2013-2014 NBA Season Thread: LET'S GO SPURDS!

[Rhinox]

Melo doesn't want to be a periah from his home city and you think LeBron is gonna shit on the good will he's rebuilt these last few years?

Are you Dione Warwick? How the fuck do you know?

See at least I can draw speculation from past interviews with lbj and Melo about the last time they switched teams. You on the other hand are just pulling it out of your butt.

Also read up on the new cba. The only thing stopping the Lakers from signing anyone is money.

[Moss]

See at least I can draw speculation from past interviews with lbj and Melo about the last time they switched teams. You on the other hand are just pulling it out of your butt.

lmfao. So your speculation based on interviews is enough to plainly state there is "zero chance" they leave their current teams? It doesn't take a fucking clairvoyant to say there is a chance an NBA player leaves when his contract expires, jfc.

Also read up on the new cba. The only thing stopping the Lakers from signing anyone is money.

Dang, I must have missed the part where they said they are getting rid of the cap altogether. I guess Zach Lowe needs to read up too

The deal also kills the Lakers' dreamy goals of bringing two max-level stars to team with Bryant this summer. The Lakers could have, at most, about $21.5 million in cap space this summer if they retain Steve Nash's full salary. And even that figure assumes the following:

• L.A. renounces its rights to Pau Gasol, and does not re-sign him;

• The Lakers pick around no. 14 or no. 15 in the draft;

• The Lakers sign zero other players before luring Star Player X in free agency, so that the empty remaining roster spots carry minimum charges of only about $500,000 each.

And even in this scenario, the Lakers could not fit the maximum salary of, say, Carmelo Anthony. Using the stretch provision on Nash could open up about $6 million of cap space, allowing the Lakers to sign that max-level player — and little else. Los Angeles floundered in 2012-13 with Bryant, Gasol, Nash, Dwight Howard, and a bench of minimum-salaried retreads. How do you think they would fare in the ultra-competitive Western Conference in 2014-15 with Bryant, Anthony, Nash (or not), and a bench of minimal-level retreads? They may be better off bringing back Gasol at $10 million or so over two seasons (if he'd take such a deal), finding a couple of other solid mid-priced guys on short-term deals, and seeing how things go from there.

[Rhinox]

He really should. Especially if he thought the Lakers had any chance of signing two max players with kobe.

[Rhinox]

He's working on the assumption that the Lakers wouldn't pay the tax. Again it's not a hard cap like the NFL

[Rhinox]

Also in Moss 's fantasy world sign and trades don't exist. ffs wiki it

[Moss]

There is a still a cap though, so they can only surpass it through exceptions. It isn't like baseball where you just pay 100% in luxury tax or w/e it is on every dollar you spend over the cap.

You plainly cannot continue signing people if it would put you over the cap unless you use an exception, like the Larry Bird Exception or Mid-Level Exception (MLE).

[Rhinox]

See we making progress. Few posts ago there was no way to surpass the cap

[Dimmauk]

So all the Lakers have to do is sign anyone they want to a MLEs and they can Dream Team championships every year right?

[Dimmauk]

I was looking for interviews from Melo about there being a zero chance of him leaving the Knicks, and all could find was this recent interview.

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1488684

[Moss]

See we making progress. Few posts ago there was no way to surpass the cap

I already mentioned it was a soft cap, nice try though. Keep diggin'

So all the Lakers have to do is sign anyone they want to a MLEs and they can Dream Team championships every year right?

Not the MLE, either the CLE (Carmelo-Level Exception) or LLE (Laker-Level Exception). Otherwise you are correct.

[Buffy]

Repost:

[Dimmauk]

LOL Bulls aren't making the playoffs.

[Cleverness]

It's the East, the Bulls can easily lock up a 4th or 5th seed without Rose

[Dimmauk]

It's the East, the Bulls can easily lock up a 4th or 5th seed without Rose

They better not!

[notorious bum]

WTF? lmao

http://25.media.tumblr.com/cce35cdc2...l6ezo1_400.png

[Dimmauk]

WTF? lmao

http://25.media.tumblr.com/cce35cdc2...l6ezo1_400.png

https://twitter.com/WEEI/status/405902724681572353

lol

[Serra]

Didn't Tony Parker try to walk into a Heat huddle last season (possibly during the finals) and need to be shooed away?

[Moss]

Nets need to keep losing so we can swap picks with them.

[Heavencloud]

Kidd got fined 50k for that little stunt, lol.

[Azull]

I would say he should be suspended a game...but its more a punishment to the Nets to have him out there.