RUMOR: Lakers are close to getting Juwan Howard

Now I get it, either LP's source is Kup or he is Kup. Kup is assessing Howard through this board. Brilliant!!!

 

That HW article is posted. Eric Pincus is a Mod. It's a sticky.

 

Yeah, I noticed that. But Mihm is to them as Howard is to us.

 

byaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

Surely this will be locked if no link is provided....

But I'd trade Juwan, Head and our trade exception for Kobe straight up.

 

Sorry man misinterpreted you. But as Dakota said this thread hasn't been locked and was moved to Garm. That makes me think there is more to this than just BS. We'll see.

 

If I had to guess I'd say it's Juwon Howard for Deavean George in a sign and trade.

 

Lakers Salary this year

Kobe Bryant - 17.72 Million
Brian Grant - 15.57 million
Lamar Odom - 12.49 million
Kwame Brown - 8.29 million
Chris Mihm - 4.22 million
Aaron McKie 2.5 million
Andrew Bynum 2.03 million
Shammon Williams 1.75 millon
Maurice Evans 1.5 million
Luke Walton 1.24 million
Brian Cook 1.51 million
Sasha Vujacic 973k
Smucs Parker 800k
Von Wafer 665 k

Vladimir Radmonovich - no salary listed.

Source

 

$6 mill for George? I don't think so.

 

and also I am sure Gundy is going to love George.

 

J How for Lukw Walton and unconditional 07 1st

 

If we do a trade with the Lakers it would probably be along the lines of Mihm+Cook or Mihm+Walton. That works capwise. As for tossing picks into the equation, it would probably come from us, but I hope we don't do anything stupid like dumping first rounders. I hate, hate, hate including first rounders in salary dumps. That Rice trade really pissed me off.

Maybe they'll do a draft pick swap with the lakers. That seems to be a trade sweetner that's in vogue right now. I wouldn't know what I'd feel about that. We'd be in the market for a PF, that's for sure if this went down.

 

The only realistic scenario I can see is the Rockets trading JHo for the Laker's garbage. Which would be like a package of McKie, Shammon Williams and Luke Walton to sweeten the deal. I'm not sure if any of those are expiring contracts, but JHo could be a decent fit and would be extremely cheap firepower off the bench.

 

Mihm+Cook for Horwad and our next year's protected 2nd round pick.
Consider it done.

 

Dam it, Howard was once a Franchise player in Washington and Dallas.

 

Beat me to it!

 

Wow this thread got full FAST!

 

Wrong. The Lakers have too many players and too many bigs. They have to get rid of a big and make space. The only reason George would be included is to balance salaries. And I don't see that happening.

 

You're right, I guess Mihm is the best guess; they played their best ball after he got hurt and moving him gives them a spot for Bynum to play.

 

Kwame Brown makes $8mil ? What a waste!