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[Fafnir]

Jim_Eichenhofer Jim Eichenhofer
Dell Demps: "Since that (3-team) deal did not go through, we’re going to keep plugging away and see if we can get a deal for the team.”

wording suggests a deal could be a completely different one that involves other trade partners.

i have to think danny is on the phone offering that rondo / green / picks package again, or something like it.

I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Of course he should demand that David Stern or one of his minions be in on every conference call. He cannot let a deal like that go public now until it has a league stamp of approval.

[jc3celticsphan]

please we don't need another day or so involving rondo in some other trade rumors. Let's go Chris Paul to LA and make them pay for him the right price.

Now, considering the situation... do we really need cap flexibility for next year? I hope danny can go after players like Hamilton or, better, Jamal Crawford.

Just a question: do we have the MLE if we sign&trade Jeff Green?

i dont think we have the full MLE with jeff green and bass signed we are at like 73 million. thats 3 million over the luxury tax so we have about 2 million of the MLE left i guess? not sure i asked this question earlier though

No we have the mini MLE. 9 mill spread out over 3 yrs

wow that sucks. dunno why we have the minni mle what happen to the normal MLE and LLE

Teams that are over the cap don't get the full MLE. New CBA in place now.

wow that makes no sense whats the point of MLE if your under the cap.

What? No the MLE is people over the cap. The mini MLE is for people over the tax.

ok that makes sense now, so we couldnt get under the cap to get our mle and lle back? by maybe waiving oneal?

We'd have to waive O'Neal to do so, not a good idea as we need Cs so bad. The extra money is unlikely to land us better options.

I see. but we would end up with around 8 mill to sign nice center. too bad there are none in free agency

The mid level isn't 8 million.

MLE+LLE?

[PosImpos]

Jim_Eichenhofer Jim Eichenhofer
Dell Demps: "Since that (3-team) deal did not go through, we’re going to keep plugging away and see if we can get a deal for the team.”

wording suggests a deal could be a completely different one that involves other trade partners.

i have to think danny is on the phone offering that rondo / green / picks package again, or something like it.

I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Of course he should demand that David Stern or one of his minions be in on every conference call. He cannot let a deal like that go public now until it has a league stamp of approval.

yeah, any chris paul deal that ends up getting reported will almost certainly be verified and stamped by the league before it even gets out to the media as being "done."

not gonna mess around with another veto debacle.

[Fafnir]

please we don't need another day or so involving rondo in some other trade rumors. Let's go Chris Paul to LA and make them pay for him the right price.

Now, considering the situation... do we really need cap flexibility for next year? I hope danny can go after players like Hamilton or, better, Jamal Crawford.

Just a question: do we have the MLE if we sign&trade Jeff Green?

i dont think we have the full MLE with jeff green and bass signed we are at like 73 million. thats 3 million over the luxury tax so we have about 2 million of the MLE left i guess? not sure i asked this question earlier though

No we have the mini MLE. 9 mill spread out over 3 yrs

wow that sucks. dunno why we have the minni mle what happen to the normal MLE and LLE

Teams that are over the cap don't get the full MLE. New CBA in place now.

wow that makes no sense whats the point of MLE if your under the cap.

What? No the MLE is people over the cap. The mini MLE is for people over the tax.

ok that makes sense now, so we couldnt get under the cap to get our mle and lle back? by maybe waiving oneal?

We'd have to waive O'Neal to do so, not a good idea as we need Cs so bad. The extra money is unlikely to land us better options.

I see. but we would end up with around 8 mill to sign nice center. too bad there are none in free agency

The mid level isn't 8 million.

MLE+LLE?

You can't combine the two exceptions like that.

[jc3celticsphan]

please we don't need another day or so involving rondo in some other trade rumors. Let's go Chris Paul to LA and make them pay for him the right price.

Now, considering the situation... do we really need cap flexibility for next year? I hope danny can go after players like Hamilton or, better, Jamal Crawford.

Just a question: do we have the MLE if we sign&trade Jeff Green?

i dont think we have the full MLE with jeff green and bass signed we are at like 73 million. thats 3 million over the luxury tax so we have about 2 million of the MLE left i guess? not sure i asked this question earlier though

No we have the mini MLE. 9 mill spread out over 3 yrs

wow that sucks. dunno why we have the minni mle what happen to the normal MLE and LLE

Teams that are over the cap don't get the full MLE. New CBA in place now.

wow that makes no sense whats the point of MLE if your under the cap.

What? No the MLE is people over the cap. The mini MLE is for people over the tax.

ok that makes sense now, so we couldnt get under the cap to get our mle and lle back? by maybe waiving oneal?

We'd have to waive O'Neal to do so, not a good idea as we need Cs so bad. The extra money is unlikely to land us better options.

I see. but we would end up with around 8 mill to sign nice center. too bad there are none in free agency

The mid level isn't 8 million.

MLE+LLE?

You can't combine the two exceptions like that.

Ooo  alright i see 5 mill wont get us any where and no good scorers out there that will take the LLE. Jeff Green better step it up this year if he aint traded.

[j804]

Jim_Eichenhofer Jim Eichenhofer
Dell Demps: "Since that (3-team) deal did not go through, we’re going to keep plugging away and see if we can get a deal for the team.”

wording suggests a deal could be a completely different one that involves other trade partners.

i have to think danny is on the phone offering that rondo / green / picks package again, or something like it.

There is NO DOUBT in my mind that Danny is still plugging away at this

[barefacedmonk]

ESPN sources: Hornets/Lakers/Rockets cautiously optimistic they'll have reworked CP3 trade to present to NBA perhaps as soon as Saturday

Specific changes to deal not immediately known but teams working through night to infuse CP3 deal w/enough youth and/or picks to satisfy NBA

@ESPNSteinLine

[The Walker Wiggle]

Wojnarowski:

The primary work on deal has been between Lakers and Hornets sides, sources say. Rockets still get Gasol, still move same parts. Odom to NO.

Uh oh. Okafor for Devin Ebanks?

[barefacedmonk]

Sources say Rockets are likely to put one or two young players into the deal. Unclear which ones, but HOU willing to make moves.

- Chris Mannix

All this for Pau Gasol? Morey is an idiot.

[Kane3387]

Crap was really hoping west would help in attracting Paul to reconsider us.

[barefacedmonk]

Just filed to ESPN w/@Chris_Broussard: New trade framework of original three-team CP3 deal has been submitted to league office for approval

- Marc Stein

[kozlodoev]

Just filed to ESPN w/@Chris_Broussard: New trade framework of original three-team CP3 deal has been submitted to league office for approval

- Marc Stein

Interesting that there are no rumors of the framework this time.

[PosImpos]

Just filed to ESPN w/@Chris_Broussard: New trade framework of original three-team CP3 deal has been submitted to league office for approval

- Marc Stein

Interesting that there are no rumors of the framework this time.

probably keeping it close to the vest until it's approved.

in any case, sounds like paul is probably a laker by the end of the weekend.  i just hope and pray dwight doesn't follow.

[kozlodoev]

Just filed to ESPN w/@Chris_Broussard: New trade framework of original three-team CP3 deal has been submitted to league office for approval

- Marc Stein

Interesting that there are no rumors of the framework this time.

probably keeping it close to the vest until it's approved.

in any case, sounds like paul is probably a laker by the end of the weekend.  i just hope and pray dwight doesn't follow.

I don't really care about Howard -- he'll do what he'll do eventually. I just hope we can snag David West in the ruckus.

[Evantime34]

Just filed to ESPN w/@Chris_Broussard: New trade framework of original three-team CP3 deal has been submitted to league office for approval

- Marc Stein

Interesting that there are no rumors of the framework this time.

probably keeping it close to the vest until it's approved.

in any case, sounds like paul is probably a laker by the end of the weekend.  i just hope and pray dwight doesn't follow.

I read that this deal was holding a lot of things up as far as signings. Hopefully the cp3 deal is shortly followed by the david west deal, which is them followed by us signing someone good for the mle.