Sound off: Who Should LA Surround Kobe With the Next Two Years?

[Melbournelad]

The cap was 58 million this year. By 2015-16 it is projected to be around 62 million.

By the way, do you now understand how restricted free agency works and because of it that Davis is an impossibility, and Bledsoe is extremely unlikely?

[tril]

Quote: Originally Posted by Melbournelad

The cap was 58 million this year. By 2015-16 it is projected to be around 62 million. By the way, do you now understand how restricted free agency works and because of it that Davis is an impossibility, and Bledsoe is extremely unlikely?

yup like I said the Anthgony Davis is wishful thinking, but would be a great fit.

and Bledsoe has a an option to option out at the end of this season via qualifying offers. So I do see LA making an offer in the off season. I dont believe He's a max guy. he's injury proan and has a reputation of having a bad attitude.

Miami and LA will have huge amounts of cap space within the next few years.

again I stand by my statement of a lineup consisting of Kobe, CArmello Anthony and Hibbert is very realistic in the next few years.
Anthony Davis leaving the Pelican's is very realistic, going to LA not. the fact that he's a 20/10 guy this season and very little media covegage says enough. he'll bolt as soon as he gets a chance. He'll force the Pelicans hand.

[Melbournelad]

Quote: Originally Posted by tril

yup like I said the Anthgony Davis is wishful thinking, but would be a great fit. and Bledsoe has a an option to option out at the end of this season via qualifying offers. So I do see LA making an offer in the off season. I dont believe He's a max guy. he's injury proan and has a reputation of having a bad attitude. Miami and LA will have huge amounts of cap space within the next few years. again I stand by my statement of a lineup consisting of Kobe, CArmello Anthony and Hibbert is very realistic in the next few years. Anthony Davis leaving the Pelican's is very realistic, going to LA not. the fact that he's a 20/10 guy this season and very little media covegage says enough. he'll bolt as soon as he gets a chance. He'll force the Pelicans hand.

Again, it will be 2019/2020/2021 by the time Davis is an unrestricted free agent. Bledsoe also won't be leaving the Suns for any team until 2017/2018/2019 unless one of two things happen: either a team offers him the max next summer and the Suns feel that it is such an overvalue of Bledsoe that they don't want to match, or he takes a qualifying offer and become a free agent in 2015. Now just to clarify since you seem a bit confused on qualifying offers, it means that a player can take a one year deal at the end of their rookie contract to stay with their team and become a free agent the following summer. The contract is around the amount of the last year of ther rookie contract (not 100% sure, but it is a small amount), and usually much less than they could get on the open market. This why you will very rarely see players take this offer. So no, Bledsoe won't be hitting the market as a UFA until at least 2017, unless he wants to miss out on millions of dollars in the 14-15 season.

And Hibbert won't be leaving the Pacers when they have the best long term outlook of any team in the league right now. The only way would be it somehow Paul George suffers a career ending injury. Even if he does leave them, Kobe would have to take a significant pay cut down to about 5-10 million to have enough room, because in your hypothetical scenario Anthony would already be on the books for over 20 million, and I'm sure we would have some role players such as Jordan Hill signed past 2016.

[RedSceptile]

Quote: Originally Posted by tril

yup like I said the Anthgony Davis is wishful thinking, but would be a great fit. and Bledsoe has a an option to option out at the end of this season via qualifying offers. So I do see LA making an offer in the off season. I dont believe He's a max guy. he's injury proan and has a reputation of having a bad attitude. Miami and LA will have huge amounts of cap space within the next few years. again I stand by my statement of a lineup consisting of Kobe, CArmello Anthony and Hibbert is very realistic in the next few years. Anthony Davis leaving the Pelican's is very realistic, going to LA not. the fact that he's a 20/10 guy this season and very little media covegage says enough. he'll bolt as soon as he gets a chance. He'll force the Pelicans hand.

You know nothing about basketball or salary. The earliest the Pelicans can lose Davis is the 2019 season because best believe hes going to get that super max deal. This is his second year in the league and the Pelicans are already better this year than last. Roy Hibbert arguably plays for the best team in the league with a guy in Paul George who is rising astronomically into a top 5 player. There's no conceivable way to afford Melo Kobe Anthony Davis and Roy Hibbert. Kobe would have to sign for the minimum because that's 3 MAX LEVEL players. Combine the fact that the league is far more punishing to tax payers as a result of what happened in Miami. But oh wait the 3 in Miami all took even less money. Melo is not going to take less money. Neither will an in his prime Anthony Davis. Plus with the way how Hibbert is destroying souls you can count him out as well.

This is impossible. Learn salary cap 101 and contracts before making such ludicrous assumptions. "Ohhhh a guys team sucks? Guess hes gonna be a Laker!" there are far more attractive teams than whatever it is that the Lakers are now.

[goldlife87]

Honestly I believe the lakers go pick up Melo. Carmelo wants out of NY but still wants to be in a major market. His wife is into the entertainment lifestyle and would be perfect fit in LA. He also pairs up with kobe who is alpha dog leader that carmelo could never be (not hating just saying, melo is more laid back). I think this would be Carmelo's best shot at a title (unless he decides to join Dwight+Harden) pairing up with a hungry mamba and eventually the Lakers could become Melo's team if he plays his part right. Kobe needs a second option (maybe even first if you look at kobe's latest shooting percentages) and who better than arguably top two scorer in the lg carmelo anthony. It just makes sense, Melo to the Lakers.

[KingofATL]

PG - Kyle Lowry .....(Big, aggressive gaurd who can score the rock, let Steve Blake ride the bench)
SG - Kobe Bryant ....(they can try and steal Lance Stephenson from Pacers to come off bench)
SF - Rudy Gay ....(Yeah I said it, No way Melo & Kobe can play together. Both are ball hogs!!!)
PF - Dirk Nowitzki .......(time to move on from Pau Gasol, or at least consider it. Dirk would be a perfect fit)
C - Jordan Hill .......(J. Hill has been pretty productive. He is young and a beast downlow)

Just think about it.... It could be a great team!!!!!!

[ojandpizza]

Quote: Originally Posted by KingofATL

PG - Kyle Lowry .....(Big, aggressive gaurd who can score the rock, let Steve Blake ride the bench) SG - Kobe Bryant ....(they can try and steal Lance Stephenson from Pacers to come off bench) SF - Rudy Gay ....(Yeah I said it, No way Melo & Kobe can play together. Both are ball hogs!!!) PF - Dirk Nowitzki .......(time to move on from Pau Gasol, or at least consider it. Dirk would be a perfect fit) C - Jordan Hill .......(J. Hill has been pretty productive. He is young and a beast downlow) Just think about it.... It could be a great team!!!!!!

Dirk isn't leaving Dallas though, and this does nothing to fix their interior defensive issues. Possibly makes it worse.

[KSOR24]

This is my dream lineup:

Kyle Lowry
Kobe Bryant
Thabo Sefolosha
Carmelo Anthony
Omer Asik

With their current bench as well. Defensively, they would be solid. And on offense, oh my ..

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