With Gasol going to have surgery added to his age... he is a big risk. Could end up like another Bynum.
Not sure but I wouldn't take that chance. All blind bids and you pay what you bid not simply $1 more than the next highest ala eBay. With Gasol, this team could have made the finals this year after Westbrook went down.
NO WAY. Gasol will only put in max effort in LA. Watch him go somewhere else and pout and act like a b**** and retire early to go back home to finish his career in a Spanish league.
it would be funny if we end up with both Dwight and an amnestied Gasol C Howard PF Gasol SF Parsons SG Harden PG Lin
Signing Dwight alone would bring the Rockets payroll right to the salary cap assuming they send out another 3+ million in salary before the signing as well. The Rockets wont have the cap space to make an amnesty bid on Gasol if they sign Dwight. That is unless they trade either Asik and/or Lin for no salary in return. Even then, the Rockets would only have 8.3 mil to bid on Gasol with, and there will be teams like Atlanta, and Dallas that might very well bid close to the full amount of his due salary to acquire him on a one year deal. So basically.... its not gonna happen.
Gasol wont play well outside of Kobe/Lakers. We've seen this before already Ariza flunked, Odom flunked, Famar and Vujacic are out of the NBA, Luke Walton barely plays, Bynum has no interest in taking proper steps to get himself healthy for basketball
Ariza, Farmar, Vujacic, and Walton all suck. That had everything to do with Kobe and Phil Jackson making them look better than they really were. Odom just went to a bad situation where he wasn't really wanted. Bynum has glass knees. Pau, on the other hand, played very well in Memphis before he went to LA and I'd bet he'd be happy at this point to play for a winner rather than the Lakers next year.
About what? retiring early when in a year he can select his destination? Pouting? I do believe you are greatly underestimating this player. You must be SOH!
Houston would have to give away $14M in asset to take in Gasol's $19M salary in a trade. To make the number Rox would have to resign Delfino and Garcia to contract, throw in TRob's $3.5M, and package another one or two players into the deal. Taking on such a package would only help Lakers' cap problem marginally, and it would be stupid for them to absorb two new vet contracts. The only upside for them is the young asset they'd get in TRob and/or other young players. DM won't do it anyway. If Gasol gets the amnesty, that means LA has secured the service of DH. The only scenario that make sense to me for Gasol to be in Htown is via amnesty for a winning bid of about $10M, may be then sign him to a 2-year extension of 10M per. But it's unlikely for him to sign any extension because he's gonna want to like at the market. No team is gonna give him anything close to $19M though. LA is LA, CP3 and DH both will stay for more money. As pleasing as CP3 is to the eyes when watching him play, he hasn't won anything, not to mention flaming out in the first round with a loaded roster. There is only ONE all-star PG in a championship roster in the past 20 years, and counting. Don't need no CP3 to go all the way. When it's all said and done, I think DM will bring in a vet PF who can finish consistently on PnR and D up, probably on a 2-year contract just to solidify that position buying time for the TR/TJ/Dmo/GS to develop. Oh, don't we already have a young Josh Smith in T Jones?
No. The salaries don't have to match up if a team has the cap room to absorb the contract. So if the Rockets don't sign Dwight, they could theoretically swap Robinson for Gasol, straight up, giving the Lakers a prospect big man on a rookie contract and a trade exception worth $16 million or so. That would significantly help their financial situation.
I'm not advocating Pau Gasol on the Rockets. How-ev-uh: Now, is Pau Gasol hoping all the surgery and talk of surgery scares other teams off? Probably. Who'd want to pack up all your **** and leave town? He's had a good thing going in L.A. The surgery thing might just grant Pau his wish in any case: "I'm going to go get bionic feet and try to be back better than ever. Pau Gasol, the 19 million dollar man!" (Cue, Steve Austin bionic-man sound effects.) But Pau Gasol will be playing for another contract and can't afford to dog it. If he came to Houston---I don't think he will, but, hypothetically---I think he would play as well as he could. Hell, even if he "only" played 30 minutes per game, that's 30 minutes per game better at the 4-spot than we had last year, with the exception of PatPat every third or fourth game or so. I swear, some of you guys. Tsk tsk.
This is only true if we don't have 19million in cap space at the time of the trade. If we are going down the Pau route than it would only be after trying to get Howard, who we would have to clear 20+ mil in cap space to sign. So it would be safe to assume that we would have sufficient cap space to take on Gasol without having to follow the salary matching rules in a trade, which benefits both us and the Lakers. We don't have to give up as many assets and the Lakers are able to save much, much more money.
The surgery on both his knees doesn't sound too serious. Just burning off some dead ligament tissue. Gasoline is a future hall of famer. Worth the risk.
No they can't. It only make sense that exceptions have limits. Because the Rockets are under the cap, they can take in what it can unload + $5M, that's $14M + $5M = Gasol's $19M.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lakers forward Pau Gasol is expected to be out three months after having the FAST Technique procedure on both knees this morning.</p>— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/332627595021668352" data-datetime="2013-05-00T22:46:13+00:00">May 0, 2013</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I assumed rockets are under the cap already. If rockets were over the cap, it'd be $15M instead of $14. May be you are talking about the old CBA?
