10 Jan 2018 13:55:31
why can't the lakers go over salary cap but just under luxury tax set at 119 mil next season there is an exemption of 8.4 mil

offer LeBron 30 mil per year for 2 years. pg13 25 mil per year for 4 years

if LeBron fail offer Boggie 25 mil per year for 4 years

use the excemption money plus Bird rights to resign Randle

trade Clarkson. Nance Jr for best available draft picks

1.) 10 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 16:24:45
Lets start off with the luxury tax and going over. Teams can't go over the tax signing other players only the players on their team. Example if the Lakers were to extend Randle they can go over the cap. What the Lakers are trying to do is shed salary so they can sign multiple players without worry about going over luxury tax. Tax exemptions are for players who are willing to sign for it or the Lakers can trade the exemption. That's harder to do. Randle is at the end of his rookie deal. They Lakers can extend an offer sheet at $5.6M, extend him, waive him, trade Randle, or Randle signs an offer sheet from another team that the Lakers must match exact terms. They can't give Randle the exemption. He doesn't qualify years wise for it.

Second we don't know what is in the mind of Lebron, PG, and Cousins. Do they want to pay together? Don't know. Will they take less like Durant did to play together? Don't know. Have to wait and see however if 2 of them come the Lakers can just give them the max without worrying about them accepting less.

2.) 11 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 06:42:51
thanks for that still learning cap rules l'm from Australia

l thought Bird rule came in effect after 3 years with team Randle on 4th year plus GWS used exemption money to sign Swaggy P

if LA serious about contending then should push luxury tax threshold Cleveland been paying it for years.

3.) 11 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 19:52:35
Randle and Swaggy P are two different situations. Swaggy P is in his 11th season. When he was done with his rookie deal which he was traded from the Wizards to the Clippers nobody was giving him the extension he wanted so he signed with the Sixers on a 1 year deal.

Then eventually got the extension with the Lakers. Randle will be in demand so he will get an extension. I think he is looking for Harrison Barnes numbers which is 4 years $96M. Lakers can't afford that if they are looking to add all star talent.

When you say Lakers should push over the luxury tax like Cleveland true and false. True cause you want to add pieces to win. False cause the Cavaliers are have financial issues. They are losing money. They have multiple bad contracts. Thompson, Shumpert, JR Smith to name a few.

Bad contracts as in it will take the Brooklyn pick to get of them. If Lebron leaves then Cleveland is stuck. Right now Cleveland is winning games so luxury tax penalty isn't noticeable as much.