NBA Free Agency

[Imnos 2]

Sign and trade Boogie to the Wiz for Porter????

[6warddude]

Thank you Dell for giving us a beast in Randall who can post up and not scared to play hard in the paint.....

[Tinman]

Thank you Dell for giving us a beast in Randall who can post up and not scared to play hard in the paint.....

This team is gonna be really young & really FAST !

[Silver Nail]

Yeah, we just call up other teams and say "Hey take Hill and Ajinca off our hands, we not taking anything back, thanks"

Doesnt work that way

Or we send AA expiring, Liggings, Diallo and pick to free up 8 mil

[AusPel]

Sign and trade Boogie to the Wiz for Porter????

Can't sign and trade if we're hard capped

[Mythrol]

Well we just hard cap ourselves.

[Mythrol]

Can't sign and trade if we're hard capped

Yes we can, just have to stay under the cap. Which of course is harder to do.

[6warddude]

This team is gonna be really young & really FAST !

Yeah...I'll just glad that we have a player that can get us points in the paint and tough down there.....another wildcat on the team...

[Thepeelsessions]

Can one of you cap gurus please explain this. LA "renounced the rights" to Randle, freeing up cap room. Is that a fancy way of saying they released him? And if so, why can't NO use this for Ajinca? Or is it because Randle was on a rookie deal?

[AusPel]

Yes we can, just have to stay under the cap. Which of course is harder to do.

Yeah but no chance to add Boogie and stay under surely

Boogies staying or leaving but we are not trading him

[AusPel]

Can one of you cap gurus please explain this. LA "renounced the rights" to Randle, freeing up cap room. Is that a fancy way of saying they released him? And if so, why can't NO use this for Ajinca? Or is it because Randle was on a rookie deal?

He was coming off his rookie deal so Lakers had control

Ajinca still under contract

[VooDooKnight]

We signed Randall


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What is going on? This all seems like someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes. What impact does this have on Cousins?

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[Mythrol]

Can one of you cap gurus please explain this. LA "renounced the rights" to Randle, freeing up cap room. Is that a fancy way of saying they released him? And if so, why can't NO use this for Ajinca? Or is it because Randle was on a rookie deal?

A player that is at the end of his contract still has his bird rights with the team he was on until he signs somewhere else. By renouncing the rights to Randle that means the Lakers do not have the ability to go over the cap to sign him. In the case of Randle he was at the end of his rookie contract which means by keeping his rights the Lakers could match any offer given to him. By renouncing his rights he became an unrestricted free agent.

[Pelicanidae]

What is going on? This all seems like someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes. What impact does this have on Cousins?

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None. We can still sign Cousins if he's willing to come back, and the Laker's still don't have a ton of cash.

[Imnos 2]

Can't sign and trade if we're hard capped

Mason Ginsberg
@MasonGinsberg
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10m
Now that I've had time to think through this transaction - it has to be the full non-tax MLE for Randle. There is no mechanism that the Pels could have used to sign and trade Rondo at that number. Must just be a straight signing for the MLE.

[Darkhorse985]

Cousins is gone. We don’t sign Randle with Davis, Cousins, and Niko.

[HoustonPelicans]

Cousins is gone. We don’t sign Randle with Davis, Cousins, and Niko.

Or Niko is gone for a SF

[Mythrol]

Cousins is gone. We don’t sign Randle with Davis, Cousins, and Niko.

Why not? That's a crazy rotation and Cousins will be brought back slowly. There's enough minutes.

[Thepeelsessions]

Thanks for clearing that up Myth. Now, I also read recently that NO still has a usable trade exception from the Qpon deal. How could the come into play?

[AusPel]

Why not? That's a crazy rotation and Cousins will be brought back slowly. There's enough minutes

How do we have enough cap space tho?

[kinglio21093]

IncarceratedBob says Boogie to the Lakers is a done deal. For those who don’t know, he’s pretty reliable.

I hate everything.

[sting]

As @jgsiegel noted, cap holds don't count towards the apron. Therefore, the Pelicans do NOT have to renounce Boogie, and can still keep him for anything below ~$18.75M (after cutting Okafor & Liggins).

If they trade or stretch Ajinca, that number goes up even further.

[Taker597]

How do we have enough cap space tho?

Boogie's bird right... Just got to pay the tax.

[AusPel]

Boogie's bird right... Just got to pay the tax.

We used non taxpayer MLE for randle - cant go into tax even with Bird Rights for Boogie

[Taker597]

We used non taxpayer MLE for randle - cant go into tax even with Bird Rights for Boogie

Bruh...