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Beverley to Lakers for THT and Stanley Johnson

KqWIN said:
If both teams like the deal and it doesn't affect the other deals they do it. That's exactly what I'm saying. What you're saying is that this deal somehow entices the Lakers to do business they wouldn't have done otherwise. If they like the Pacers deal more, they're going to take it. If they like the Jazz deal more, they're going to take it. It's not like Danny gave the Lakers a sample of crack cocaine to hook them in.
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NOPE!!! I said this could be part 1 of a bigger deal. Not some favor... but like we basically agree on a trade here but can't execute it per the CBA. And folks were like "why split the deal in two deals... why not just wait... lolz and lmao". Well you do it to show that you will follow through with part 2 so they don't do the other deal. This isn't helping your buddy move and then saying "you owe me one" and hoping he comes through later.

If this deal doesn't affect the bigger deals they want to do... then it won't affect a deal we do later with each other. Does it mean we agree to every detail of the deal? nah there might be some fine tuning that could happen depending on other things... but we both showed we are serious by doing part of the deal that we could now. Also makes Bev happy, Lebron happy etc.

Both teams are in high stakes negotiations and showed a little bit of their cards... teams knew that we are likely to move Don and Lakers are likely to move Westbrook but it isn't certain. Its completely fair to say "why show your cards on this now?". I think its likely LA already has their Westbrook deal done basically when they did this deal. Is it Indiana? maybe. Another team? sure.

I know we hung up the phone with them yesterday and agreed to a trade... so I know we talked with them in detail too.
 
Yall know how deposits and down payments work right. Like when I put down the down payment on my house I get the house at the agreed upon price. Its not a donation... its earnest money.
 
silesian said:
we don't need cap space
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Cap space allows you to take on Salary Dumps with assets attached without having to send matching salary back.

They may not need cap space for free agents, but it never hurts to have a max contract slot available. Cap space at the deadline (to help a team duck the tax) and before free agency next year (to help a team create their one max slot) will be extremely valuable.
 
Lol when you think about it, the roster as it sits right now is lowkey stacked.

PG- Conley/Clarkson
SG- Mitchell/Beasley
SF- Bogdanovic/THT
PF - Vandy/Fontecchio
C - Dok/Kessler
 
stitches said:
It's insane we have spent 10 pages arguing on whether a trade we made is a "down payment" for another trade that we might make or not. What are we doing, guys?
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Like the other **** we do around here solves world hunger.

Would you like to talk about who has the most leverage in the Don trades instead? Maybe we could debate whether the Conley trade was good?
 
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