If needed, should Ainge actually put Tatum in package for AD? Nope, walk away.

[Roy H.]

I think we would be trading a Kobe type talent

Trade him now, haha.

[nickagneta]

Haywards salary doesn't fit in the trade machine in that scenario.  NO will surely demand Williams for post play and because of salary we will probably lose Rozier and Morris to free agency.

Common knowledge and certainty doesn't apply when dealing with Kyrie

Okay then. Book it. It's a certainty that if Davis is traded for Kyrie will already be signed.

[SHAQATTACK]

saw something that reported Lakers are being axed for at least TWO first round picks and to take on player debt, along with giving up players

thats the last things Magic wants to do .  he wants cap space and picks to trade this summer for the third star.

nO hitting them with a gut punch

[Roy H.]

saw something that reported Lakers are being axed for at least TWO first round picks and to take on player debt, along with giving up players

thats the last things Magic wants to do .  he wants cap space and picks to trade this summer for the third star.

nO hitting them with a gut punch

I don't think that asking for an additional late round pick and taking back the one year left on Solomon Hill's contract really moves the needle that much for either team.  The Lakers should do that in a heart beat, and NOP should do a deal for better assets.

[RodyTur10]

saw something that reported Lakers are being axed for at least TWO first round picks and to take on player debt, along with giving up players

Thats the last things Magic wants to do. He wants cap space and picks to trade this summer for the third star.

nO hitting them with a gut punch

He could use Sacramento as a place to drop that salary for Randolph/Shumpert/Koufos.

I read that report as well, but I don't know if it's trustworthy. There's so much nonsense floating around.

If it is true, there's a big hurdle, but a way to fix that. Getting Davis for a combination of two of Ball/Ingram/Kuzma/Zubac and two late first rounders (and an additional asset to compensate the Kings in my example) would be a great trade for the Lakers.

I don't understand some franchises, why do you care so much about a bad one-year-contract of Solomon Hill or Chandler Parsons, that you force other teams to take them on when trading your star player and as a result receive less assets and clear cap space which you can't use to sign a star player anyway, since you go into a rebuild.