Dwight, Lebron, Melo, Kobe potential super team on the Lakers

[Moranis]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/22615139/howard-can-take-easy-way-out-of-la-or-stay-and-become-a-legend

Basically the article says, that Howard (and the Lakers need to pitch it this way) has to be smart enough to realize that only he and Nash will be under contract on July 1, 2014.  Kobe must agree to take a small salary and thus the Lakers would have room for two near max contracts next summer when a free agent bonanza opens up with Lebron, Carmelo, Wade, Bosh, etc. are all free agents to add to a team with Dwight, Nash, and Bryant.


EDIT: I don't think the author's math is right, but they should at least have enough room for 1 full max with some leftover next summer.  This is also Dallas' pitch to Dwight, sign here, and next summer Dirk will re-sign on a small deal and we will bring in another max player.

[Roy H.]

That's a remarkably lazy article from Berger.

There's no way the Lakers will have "$50 million in cap space" next summer, unless Kobe is signing for the minimum and D12 is signing for the MLE.

[manl_lui]

That's a remarkably lazy article from Berger.

There's no way the Lakers will have "$50 million in cap space" next summer, unless Kobe is signing for the minimum and D12 is signing for the MLE.

I'm thinking the same thing, Kobe and Dwight themselves will eat up your cap

seriously doubt this is true

[BudweiserCeltic]

That's a remarkably lazy article from Berger.

There's no way the Lakers will have "$50 million in cap space" next summer, unless Kobe is signing for the minimum and D12 is signing for the MLE.

Berger has been mailing his articles in for a while now in my opinion. All his "ideas" and "analysis" I'm finding to be completely misinformed or lacking.

[Fafnir]

That's a remarkably lazy article from Berger.

There's no way the Lakers will have "$50 million in cap space" next summer, unless Kobe is signing for the minimum and D12 is signing for the MLE.

Yup, awful article. When you can't even do 10 minutes of googling and math to build around your premise: "no one walks away from the Lakers" what are you doing?

I'm not sure what "16 Banners" means to Dwight anyways. If anything I think LA's history and the expectations are a slight negative for him.

[Fafnir]

That's a remarkably lazy article from Berger.

There's no way the Lakers will have "$50 million in cap space" next summer, unless Kobe is signing for the minimum and D12 is signing for the MLE.

I'm thinking the same thing, Kobe and Dwight themselves will eat up your cap

seriously doubt this is true

I'd be shocked if Kobe's salary goes below roughly what KG/Duncan got.

So that'd be 20 for Howard, 9 for Kobe, 9.7 for Nash right? That's 20ish so enough for one max FA if the salary cap is 60 million.

If they're ditching Kobe and Nash entirely I suppose they could get to what 36 million via renouncing him and stretching Nash's last year.

Edit: I forgot the roster charge of 507k for each empty roster spot. That is another 5.577 of cap room gone if its just Dwight on the books. So it looks like the max cap room they'll have is around 31 million.

I don't see how they can get two max FAs to add to Dwight unless they both take 5 million dollar pay cuts roughly.