Trade Exception for Nash + #7

[Geo123]

If all the Lakers want to do with a Nash+#7 trade is clear salary, I'm so in.

Celtics trade: either Keith Bogans or the Pierce TPE, and a future first round pick (preferably Clippers 2015)
Lakers trade: Steve Nash and pick #7

I do this trade every single time... but never to acquire Love.

The top 3 in the draft is looking like it's going to be Wiggins, Parker, Exum (no order).

Vonleh will also probably be picked before 6 and 7.

That means there is one pick remaining before we choose, and the top prospects left are Joel Embiid, Marcus Smart, Aaron Gordon, Julius Randle.

My main goal is to get Embiid at 6.. getting Smart or Gordon (preferably Smart) at 7 on top of getting Embiid would be incredible.. maybe James Young at 17

Embiid / Faverani / Anthony
Sullinger / Olynyk / Bass
Green / Wallace
Smart / Young
Rondo / Pressey / Nash

That right there is a team.. We're not going to bring in any premier free agents.  We already have Bass and Anthony clogging up cap space, if taking on Nash means acquiring #7, we need to do it.

That is a very well balance starting five with a couple of great young pieces in Oly and Young leading the second unit.

Next offseason.. Bass, Anthony and Nash expire.. We resign Rondo to an extension and hope to  look into free agency.. Embiid looks to play his first full healthy season, Smart Oly and Young have a year of experience, and we still have a wave of draft picks over the next few years.

Get it done Danny.

That right there would be a team.  A lottery bound team that will lose it's best player after the year (Rondo) because he would run away from that team. 

[gpap]

If all the Lakers want to do with a Nash+#7 trade is clear salary, I'm so in.

Celtics trade: either Keith Bogans or the Pierce TPE, and a future first round pick (preferably Clippers 2015)
Lakers trade: Steve Nash and pick #7

I do this trade every single time... but never to acquire Love.

The top 3 in the draft is looking like it's going to be Wiggins, Parker, Exum (no order).

Vonleh will also probably be picked before 6 and 7.

That means there is one pick remaining before we choose, and the top prospects left are Joel Embiid, Marcus Smart, Aaron Gordon, Julius Randle.

My main goal is to get Embiid at 6.. getting Smart or Gordon (preferably Smart) at 7 on top of getting Embiid would be incredible.. maybe James Young at 17

Embiid / Faverani / Anthony
Sullinger / Olynyk / Bass
Green / Wallace
Smart / Young
Rondo / Pressey / Nash

That right there is a team.. We're not going to bring in any premier free agents.  We already have Bass and Anthony clogging up cap space, if taking on Nash means acquiring #7, we need to do it.

That is a very well balance starting five with a couple of great young pieces in Oly and Young leading the second unit.

Next offseason.. Bass, Anthony and Nash expire.. We resign Rondo to an extension and hope to  look into free agency.. Embiid looks to play his first full healthy season, Smart Oly and Young have a year of experience, and we still have a wave of draft picks over the next few years.

Get it done Danny.

That right there would be a team.  A lottery bound team that will lose it's best player after the year (Rondo) because he would run away from that team.

Lol, I don't think Rondo would just run, he would sprint.

[Celtics4ever]

NOTHING EVER TO HELP THE LAKERS, I HOPE LUCKY SMITES THOSE WHO SUGGEST IT WITH HIS SHILLELAGH!

[knuckleballer]

If we somehow ended up with 4 first rounders, drafting Saric should be part of the plan.  We've got to stagger these contracts somehow.

I doubt we end up with 4 first rounds, but we could add the 7th or 8th and possibly move up a few spots from the 17th.  I hope we can get Embiid and either Smart or Gordon with the 7th or 8th.  If we do, drafting Saric with the later pick would make a lot of sense because we could stagger the contracts and because of his talent.

We would certainly be headed back to the lottery next year in what is expected to be another strong draft and we'll have the Clippers pick as well.  By 2016, we will again likely have another lottery pick between our own and Brooklyn's pick.  We will also have a ton of cap space.  I'd be surprised if one or two of our players were not approaching all star level of play by then along with a few strong role players including Sully, Oly, and Bradley.

Bottom line is I don't think this rebuild will take five years.  We should be competitive with young improving talent in three or four years.  Personally, I'll enjoy watching the process.