Report: Lakers Not Picking Up Option For Jordan Hill And Looking To Trade Robert Sacre

http://la.suntimes.com/los-angeles-lakers/7/88/260547/lakers-jordan-hill-robert-sacre-free-agency

I wonder if the Raptors want him or the Cavs still interested in trading for him.

 

No trade value considering he can be picked up for cheap if he is released. Why pay 9 when he can be had for 3M.

 

duh. good as a back up and for cheap. but sure as hell not at that price.

 

Good. I like Sacre as a cheerleader, but he's reached his ceiling. Time to move on. We can improve in the draft or free agency for a new 3rd string C. Wonder if this means we'll try attaching him with one of our later picks to move up.

 

It looks like Mitch has explored all options for a sign and trade for Hill and come up with zip. Announcing they are not picking up his option is the indicator of that. Sacre has more trade value with his dirt cheap contract.

 

Toronto is an interesting option. After the way they collapsed in the playoffs, there's been talk of blowing it up starting with Lowry. We could offer a decent package of young players with Black, Sacre, #27, S&T Lin(huge Chinese population in Toronto), Hill(to 3rd team for more rebuilding pieces now or at the deadline). We have cheap contracts like Kelly, Brown, Blue if they want more young pieces for their rebuild. I like Lowry at 12M a lot more than Dragic for a crazy amount, Rondo at any price, Mo for 5 mil. Pretty much any of the options available to us. We'd still have around 12M in cap space after this trade. Seems like I'm adding this to every post I make, but we could create extra space to add FA's by dumping Young and/or Kelly. Someone will give up a 2nd rounder for a still young Kelly who is already a rotation player on a cheap contract. With the way FA's are expected to get paid this summer with the salary cap ballooning next year, Young at 5M is going to be valuable to teams that need to add a wing to play 30 MPG but don't want to pay Danny Green & similar FA's 12M or more. Dumping both of them would leave us with roughly 19M to spend on FA's, meaning we could afford to give a max contract to both tier 1(15.8M - Butler, Middleton, Harris, Monroe, etc) & tier 2(18.9M - Love, LMA, Gasol, Jordan etc.).

 

Young needs to be included in this, too. We need to shop Sacre and Young together with our 2 later draft picks; their salaries are a little over 6 million bucks. I don't care if you salary dump Young and Sacre or attempt to trade for a wing that's a better fit for us. Even you salary dump both of them, you could create additional cap space to go after a wing in free agency.

 

I think Young can thrive with us... We just need a decent starting 5. We get that, with young coming off that bench with tons of scoring and having a decent bench, we can do some damage. I'm not all for letting young go just yet. That contract he has is a bargain considering the production he gives us. He had one good year and one bad. He deserves another shot.

Winning cures everything. If we lose young, I think we'll regret it.

 

There's a 75-80% shot he doesn't finish his contract with the Lakers. I just don't think he and Scott are ever going to get along. Gt

Quoting myself. Mistake on Sacre. His salary for next year is 981k, and if LA dumps him, they still have a minimum cap hold of 525k, so they free up only a bit over 450k

 

yeah i like hill but he's just way too expensive to keep around

sacre on the other hand does not belong in the NBA and is annoying anyways. i'll be glad to finally see him go

 

The league already has something set up for this problem....