Trade for Pau Gasol

[Celtics4ever]

Too old, this trade hurts the Celtics, so I say "NO WAY"

[BudweiserCeltic]

How about "no"?

[SHAQATTACK]

Lord no.......that ship sailed couple years ago........Pau has NO HEART for the game anymore.   He likes to,travel the world doing good deeds ,  this is good ....but he has no FIGHT in him.    Watch a Lakers game ,  he is a sissy .

The Lakers hate the dude, his effort is awful .....how long would the honeymoon last in Boston

Not long

He is less useful than Amaire.

[JSD]

Nash, Gasol, Scarce

For

Hump, Bogans, Lee, Faverani, Olynk


Gets us in position to be a non pushover in the playoffs and out of Lee a year early. For the Lakers they gain even more flexibility this offseason and get a prospect.

[Moranis]

NY - Gasol
BOS - Chandler, Shumpert
LA - Humphries, Bradley

[JSD]

NY - Gasol
BOS - Chandler, Shumpert
LA - Humphries, Bradley

Not enough incoming $$$ for it to work for the Lakers.

[saltlover]

NY - Gasol
BOS - Chandler, Shumpert
LA - Humphries, Bradley

Not enough incoming $$$ for it to work for the Lakers.

Are you referring to salary rules for trades?  The numbers on that one work fine.  I'm personally not a fan of it, since I don't see Chandler staying healthy enough to be worth it, and I don't see Ainge thinking it's worth going into the luxury tax this year, but each of the teams is taking on an allowable amount given what they are trading away.

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

How about Gasol for Humphries, Bogans, and Brooks in a everybody's gonna leave at the end of the season anyway trade?

[slamtheking]

Lakers have already made it clear this week that they want to  maintain enough cap room to bring in a max free agent.

I thought with the extension of Kobe and Nash still on the books they wouldn't have any cap space.  Clearly that was media hysteria.  It looks like you're right... now that I look at their cap situation, it looks like they could let Pau expire and free up some cap space.

Forget it.  Close the thread.  Lakers are signing LeBron this summer.

I could be wrong on this but even if the contract expires, unless they waive their rights to him, isn't his salary amount held against their cap until he signs somewhere? 

If they think they have a shot at Bron or Melo, they waive him in a heartbeat but how much of a team can they put around either of those guys with Kobe's financial-flexibility killing contract and Nash's deal eating up all that salary cap room in addition to max deal?  With no rights to Gasol anymore and no real room to go after any decent FA's, LA's back in the world of mediocrity.  Melo's not in the playoffs now in the East and he's got a better supporting cast than he'd have in LA.

[SHAQATTACK]

I wouldn't trade Fav even for the worn out old useless Gasol.........with his 19 million ......LOL he isn't worth 1.9 million anymore n

They are stuck with his sorry tail ...... And that horrible contract

Mitch will get only junk players offers  for Gasol,   Or Pau walks off to a nothing role off the bench ...if he stays in the NBA


They used this dude up..     like Nash ....he needs to retire

Pau is the LAST person you want on a rebuilding young team..... A slow,plodding big who can guard his shadow

Hump looks like Lebron compared to Gasol.

[JSD]

NY - Gasol
BOS - Chandler, Shumpert
LA - Humphries, Bradley

Not enough incoming $$$ for it to work for the Lakers.

Are you referring to salary rules for trades?  The numbers on that one work fine.  I'm personally not a fan of it, since I don't see Chandler staying healthy enough to be worth it, and I don't see Ainge thinking it's worth going into the luxury tax this year, but each of the teams is taking on an allowable amount given what they are trading away.

Lakers have $19 million going out and $14 million coming in. It doesn't work.

[LooseCannon]

NY - Gasol
BOS - Chandler, Shumpert
LA - Humphries, Bradley

Not enough incoming $$$ for it to work for the Lakers.

Are you referring to salary rules for trades?  The numbers on that one work fine.  I'm personally not a fan of it, since I don't see Chandler staying healthy enough to be worth it, and I don't see Ainge thinking it's worth going into the luxury tax this year, but each of the teams is taking on an allowable amount given what they are trading away.

Lakers have $19 million going out and $14 million coming in. It doesn't work.

You are always allowed to take back less salary than you send out.

[Geo123]

Gasol is not worth Bradley at all.  A very bad trade for us.   Pau is slipping quickly...  Just say no....

[kozlodoev]

Your only chance for Gasol is the fact that the Lakers are on their 4th string PG. That would be Kobe, in case you wondered.

So perhaps you can sell the Lakers on flipping Gasol for Humphries + Bass + Crawford, although that would make us awfully thin up front.

[Who]

Pau Gasol has been having a bad season. Reports of him being overweight. Clearly not engaged and committed the way he should be.

33 and a half years old. Even if you could get him back (mentally) to where he should be, Boston are not close enough to being a title contender to make it worthwhile.

As for the Lakers, they want their cap space and are not going to waste it on the likes of Bass and Lee. Their best route forward is through free agency. Attracting a major star that way. Due to their lack of picks and assets to trade.