He;ll probally wind up on the Mavs or Houston.
The problem with both of those teams is the contracts. Houston's biggest contract is $8.3M and that is Lin. If they aren't trading Lin/Harden then the minimum number of contracts they would have to send out to match Gasol's would be 5. The numbers just don't work for Houston without involving another team.
The Mavs are pretty much the same. With Nowitzski as the exception all of their contracts are small-ish. It would take 3 minimum assuming LA wants Kaman and Marion, and they don't.
It's actually a common problem with trading for big contract players. There are only 6 guys who make more than Gasol who aren't amnesties.
I'm pretty close to convinced we have the best package available for Gasol. Atlanta took Smith off the table in that rumored swap and no one else is really offering much. If anyone else is offering better I've not seen it. Toronto is close with Bargnani/Calderon but I have no idea why Toronto wants an old expensive Gasol. They're in one of the two toughest divisions. They aren't going to get competitive with Gasol. Just broke.
My approach has been to only consider contending teams which narrows the search to about 12 teams. Philly could offer about the same package we can. Something like Hawes/Richardson/Wright/Brown for Gasol/Ebanks/Sacre.
Honestly Philly's is a worse package than Green/Bass/Lee/Sully by a significant margin. I also really shudder to think of the havoc on this board when Jeff Green starts having an all-star season for the Lakers and Lee's percentages sky rocket upon arrival.
For the record I'd want Earl Clark in the deal for Green. We would need a backup SF and I personally think if given reasonable minutes he'd be a fine bench player. He was really good at Louisville. Sacre just for another big body Doc won't play
With that scenario im just worried about what will happen in the future if PP and KG retire. tanking is an option?
Gasol will only be serviceable up to 2 years.
Probably not tanking but close. Rondo/Doc will be able to advertise to free agents and we'll be a middling team until Danny homeruns us another veteran all-star for peanuts.