Re: Three-Way ORL/LAL/Cavs Rumor (Dwight says he'll re-sign longterm in LA)
Pros and Cons
Cleveland - we have 13 million in expiring w/ Gibson and $10 million in space. Yet, if Bynum comes at 16.5, we could only do one bad contract at 10 mill or so ... Like Turk. We could take another but have to trade V. to create room.
Houston - has a bit more space even with Aski and Lin but one needs to swallow Martin at 12 million. I think someone wants smaller contacts like Gibson, Walton, Caspi as you need bench fillers anyway. And with V, we have more room with a trading chip worthy of first puck.
Picks --we still have advantage because Houston has Toronto first - late lottery but protected. Yet, they have traded one of their first already. In addition, Our 2 Orlando 2nds are like late firsts.
Past picks - I know that Houston has a bunch of good young players but would Orlando want them because it pushes them behind Wash, Char, Sac, GS, and others for top pick. Orando wants our model ... Suck, get fixed 1st overall pick like CLE and NO got... Then draft around your key player. Drafting 4th will not due it if you get Waters or TT like players. Lamb, Parsons, MotIejunas will not do it. Just get them 5th or 10th pick.
Orlando said no one has offered what they need ... In other words Suck entirely to get Davis, Wall, Irving to build around. Then enough ammo in decent pics to trade around. This is where LA needs to give up 2017 and 19 firsts which will have value in 2-3 years when Bryant retires and Orlando is in our place to go for that big piece. We give up 2013/15 Miami and Orando seconds which Orlando can trade them for something like Dallas pick this year to get two late mid-round firsts.
I want to keep our firsts and Sac if possible (but not probable) to draft backup pg/sg and our starting SF.
Orlando needs to realize, they already put rebuild into full force letting Anderson go. They have an asset that is losing value each month. By year end, they can only get two firsts like Lebron got us in S&T.
