2013 Pelicans Roster - Version 50.0

[HornetGuru]

I know it wont happen but everyone seems all on the idea of cp3 and dwight but most say we cant afford both so I got to thinking what if we could get cp3 and nikola pekovic.

Pek per 36 mins averaged 19-10 this year. Not only that but he is rediculously efficient on offense shooting 52% from the field and 75% from FT. He is only 27, which is young for a big man. People saying Marc Gasol is still young and will be one of the best centers in years to come and he is 28. Also taking Pek instead of dwight gives us cap to go after people like budinger or brewer.

CP3/GV
Gordon/Rivers
Otto Porter/Budinger or Brewer
Davis/Ryno
Pekovic/Lopez

CP3 doesnt depend on athleticism for his game so im not worried about his age at all. Gordon is about to enter the prime of his career. Otto porter would be a perfect glue guy. If we wanna see davis develop and maximize his potential, who better to have playing PG for him? and pek, the perfect compliment to davis, the giant, bruising center with a post game who can score in the low post and do it very efficiently.

Not only can Gordon take pressure off of ball and handle the ball at times, paul will also do the same for gordon not making gordon the constant go to guy keeping him from getting banged up so much and maybe help his injury prone nature.

This is not only a nice starting roster, but also a nice bench.

Plus say this doesn't work, atleast we gave up 0 draft picks and can continue to build in the thunder's mold as a backup and contine building through the draft.

[AUSSIE_PELICAN]

Say a player like CP3 or Dwight or Iggy or Pek wanted to come and play for the
Pels would we need to give up anything to do so or can they just sign with any
team if the price suits them?

[HornetGuru]

Say a player like CP3 or Dwight or Iggy or Pek wanted to come and play for the
Pels would we need to give up anything to do so or can they just sign with any
team if the price suits them?

cp3, dwight, iggy, and pek are all unrestricted free agents, they can go anywhere they want and can sign anywhere, their team doesnt own them anymore. Pelicans would have to give up nothing.

[Silverfoxx]

I thought the only way we can get Dwight is through sign and trade??

[Soundwave]

I thought the only way we can get Dwight is through sign and trade??

No. He is unrestricted. But he can sign for more $ from the Lakers, who would then trade him.

[LoCo89]

No. He is unrestricted. But he can sign for more $ from the Lakers, who would then trade him.

Which opens up teams over the cap to trade assets for him

[da ThRONe]

No. He is unrestricted. But he can sign for more $ from the Lakers, who would then trade him.

Lakers can't S&T players because they are over the cap limit. It's one of the new rules.

[Soundwave]

Lakers can't S&T players because they are over the cap limit. It's one of the new rules.

I thought there was a rule that I was missing, but I thought it had to do with the team that would attempt to get him. So basically, he's stuck with whomever he signs, and the Lakers either sign him or get nothing.

[BallSoHard]

It says teams above the Lux tax apron can't receive a player in a S&T; I'm unsure if that also means picks as well.

[HornetGuru]

anyway....... what yall think about the team?

[jegirouard]

That's the team I just built on 2k. Western conference finals next year!

Seriously is my dream 2013-2014 team.

[HornetGuru]

cp3 would make every body better and take pressure off gordon and also improve Davis' offensive game
gordon not being the #1 would easily be a 22 point scorer and would excel not being double teamed and the only offensive option anymore
porter is the perfect glue guy, u cant double paul or gordon cuz otto can do nothing incredible but everything good
davis elite defender/rebounder
pek massive center, he is like lopez but way better

[GeauxPelicans]

So you expect the Pelicans to not pick up any of their team options for next year? If they don't, they'll have roughly 23 million to spend in FA, but I think there's a <1% chance they don't pick up Lopez's 5.1 option for next year so that leaves the Pelicans 18 mill. They'd have to decline the options on Lance (good chance), D Miller (doubtful), B Roberts (even more doubtful) in order to have that ~18 mill. Good luck getting both of those guys for 18 mill

[Smirk]

cp3, dwight, iggy, and pek are all unrestricted free agents.

Pek is a Restricted Free Agent.

[HornetGuru]

So you expect the Pelicans to not pick up any of their team options for next year? If they don't, they'll have roughly 23 million to spend in FA, but I think there's a <1% chance they don't pick up Lopez's 5.1 option for next year so that leaves the Pelicans 18 mill. They'd have to decline the options on Lance (good chance), D Miller (doubtful), B Roberts (even more doubtful) in order to have that ~18 mill. Good luck getting both of those guys for 18 mill

we'll have 35 million, where in the world did u get 23 million from??

[BallSoHard]

we'll have 35 million, where in the world did u get 23 million from??

That's only if we renounce everyone, correct ?

[HornetGuru]

That's only if we renounce everyone, correct ?

Yes if we got rid of all player options we would have 36-37 million to spend. Only players we would have would be: Gordon, Ryno, Davis, Rivers, Jason Smith, Greivis.
cp3 20 million
Pek 11 million
Gerald Henderson 3 million
Otto Porter 2 million


Cp3/Rivers
Gordon/Henderson
Porter/Whoever we trade GV for
Davis/Ryno
Pek/Jason Smith

Then trade GV for a SF and u have a nice roster. Greivis' contract is worth 2.5 mil
What would be even better is if the magic take noel in the draft and need a PG and we could trade them GV for either harkless or harris (seriously doubt it) just throwing it out there.
Also I dont think Tom Benson would mine going over the luxury cap just a little and spending the tax.

If we keep Lopez we have approx. 31-32 million to spend.

[R_Ash]

I could see us making 2 trades 1st on draft day with Kings 1st round pick & GV to kings for DeMarcus Cousins last year of rookie contract, 2nd trade Eric Gordon to Bulls for Luol Deng who would be and expire contract. Then pick up the option on both Brian Roberts & Darius Miller would put us @ 39,301,861 then sign CP3, Kevin Martin & DeJuan Blair.
CP3 20 mill
KMart 8Mill
DeJuan Blair 2 Mill

Cp3/ AR25
KMart/Brian Roberts
Deng/DM
AD/Ryno
DC/Jason Smith/DeJuan Blair

This team may cost around 69Mil with 2 expiring contracts in Deng & Smith

[HornetGuru]

I could see us making 2 trades 1st on draft day with Kings 1st round pick & GV to kings for DeMarcus Cousins last year of rookie contract, 2nd trade Eric Gordon to Bulls for Luol Deng who would be and expire contract. Then pick up the option on both Brian Roberts & Darius Miller would put us @ 39,301,861 then sign CP3, Kevin Martin & DeJuan Blair.
CP3 20 mill
KMart 8Mill
DeJuan Blair 2 Mill

Cp3/ AR25
KMart/Brian Roberts
Deng/DM
AD/Ryno
DC/Jason Smith/DeJuan Blair

This team may cost around 69Mil with 2 expiring contracts in Deng & Smith

another very nice lineup, reminds me of our old team

cp3 as himself
kmart as one of our 3pt assassins
deng as the other
ad as tyson
cousins as west

just a lot more talanted, kmart like peja can drain the 3 but also score in other ways
deng is like mo pete in that he can hit the 3 and defend, but do both better and also is a great rebounder

[R_Ash]

another very nice lineup, reminds me of our old team

cp3 as himself
kmart as one of our 3pt assassins
deng as the other
ad as tyson
cousins as west

just a lot more talanted, kmart like peja can drain the 3 but also score in other ways
deng is like mo pete in that he can hit the 3 and defend, but do both better and also is a great rebounder

We would also have a better bench with Austin, Ryno, Darius & Jason Smith.

If we can't get Chris we could still make the other move and become a very good team with about 10-15mil in cap space

[AUSSIE_PELICAN]

If the Pel’s don’t pick up the options on both Lopez and Thomas, the combined salaries for the rest of the team in 2013/14 is: 36.53M

Now if we sign CP3 for 18.668M* and Pekovic for 9.19M*, it could work in principal.

The total salaries to begin the season would be: 64.388M
If you include the salary of the 2013 (5th pick) = 2.9M
Webster 2.1M*
Budinger 0.884M*

Total for the team is: 70.272M

Luxury tax as of 2012/13 – 70M

CP3/Vasquez/Roberts
Gordon/Rivers/Miller
Budinger/Webster/2013 Pick
Davis/Anderson
Pekovic /Smith

However I can’t see us only signing Pek for 9.2M, Webster for only 2.1M and Budinger for 0.844M, but according to Shamsports this is the players projected salaries in 2013/14.
We can possibly not try and sign Webster and instead add that to both Pek and Budinger salaries instead, but you can see it is somewhat plausible but we do need flexibility moving forward.

This is why I’d rather build through the draft and sign young vets (24-26 year old players) to be successful for more than just one or two years.

*Source: Shamsports

[HornetGuru]

If the Pel’s don’t pick up the options on both Lopez and Thomas, the combined salaries for the rest of the team in 2013/14 is: 36.53M

Now if we sign CP3 for 18.668M* and Pekovic for 9.19M*, it could work in principal.

The total salaries to begin the season would be: 64.388M
If you include the salary of the 2013 (5th pick) = 2.9M
Webster 2.1M*
Budinger 0.884M*

Total for the team is: 70.272M

Luxury tax as of 2012/13 – 70M

CP3/Vasquez/Roberts
Gordon/Rivers/Miller
Budinger/Webster/2013 Pick
Davis/Anderson
Pekovic /Smith

However I can’t see us only signing Pek for 9.2M, Webster for only 2.1M and Budinger for 0.844M, but according to Shamsports this is the players projected salaries in 2013/14.
We can possibly not try and sign Webster and instead add that to both Pek and Budinger salaries instead, but you can see it is somewhat plausible but we do need flexibility moving forward.

This is why I’d rather build through the draft and sign young vets (24-26 year old players) to be successful for more than just one or two years.

*Source: Shamsports

well if thats the case i would say forget budinger and webster, if we are gonna spend a top 5 pick on otto porter he better be our starter, trade GV for a decent SF with the same contract and we are good. Take the 3 million from budinger and webster and give pek 12 instead of 9

[AUSSIE_PELICAN]

well if thats the case i would say forget budinger and webster, if we are gonna spend a top 5 pick on otto porter he better be our starter, trade GV for a decent SF with the same contract and we are good.

We aint getting Porter with the 5th Pick.....I was reaching for maybe Bazz or the Greek kid.
However if we miss out on a SF in the draft we may just draft BPA.

[smcgull]

If the Pel’s don’t pick up the options on both Lopez and Thomas, the combined salaries for the rest of the team in 2013/14 is: 36.53M

Now if we sign CP3 for 18.668M* and Pekovic for 9.19M*, it could work in principal.

The total salaries to begin the season would be: 64.388M
If you include the salary of the 2013 (5th pick) = 2.9M
Webster 2.1M*
Budinger 0.884M*

Total for the team is: 70.272M

Luxury tax as of 2012/13 – 70M

CP3/Vasquez/Roberts
Gordon/Rivers/Miller
Budinger/Webster/2013 Pick
Davis/Anderson
Pekovic /Smith

However I can’t see us only signing Pek for 9.2M, Webster for only 2.1M and Budinger for 0.844M, but according to Shamsports this is the players projected salaries in 2013/14.
We can possibly not try and sign Webster and instead add that to both Pek and Budinger salaries instead, but you can see it is somewhat plausible but we do need flexibility moving forward.

This is why I’d rather build through the draft and sign young vets (24-26 year old players) to be successful for more than just one or two years.

*Source: Shamsports

I agree with you about building through the draft and getting young vets in F/A.

[GeauxPelicans]

we'll have 35 million, where in the world did u get 23 million from??

Gordon 14.283
Anderson 8.308
Davis 5.375
Smith 2.5
Rivers 2.339
Vasquez 2.15
That equals 34.955 million, if we don't pick up anyone's option. Cap is 58 million right? U can only go into Kix tax to sign people already on your own team (unless I'm wrong) so that gives the Pelicans 23.045 mill to spend if they don't pick up anyone's option. If I'm wrong, someone tell me please and if I am than I apologize.