A.W
Years ago

Dwight Howard to the Lakers?

http://penandpaperblog.org/2011/06/26/dwight-howard-to-lakers-for-250-million-over-6-years/

Not sure if there is any truth in this or not.

Massive news if true, see you later Gasol?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

$250 mil over 6 years, at $41mil a year, clearly a joke, thats more then half the salary cap onto 1 player.
And that's not including Kobe and Gasol's salary, or Bynum.

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curtley  
Years ago

The Lakers spent about $95Mil last year on salaries.

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Beantown  
Years ago

Agreed anon, its bollocks. They can't give Howard that kind of raise under the current collective bargaining agreement. If they did, they would have to trade Gasol AND Kobe, or Gasol, Bynum and Odom just to make the salaries match for the trade!

At best the Lakers would have Howard and Kobe under contract for over $60 mill next season, plus Artest, an over the hill Fisher and a bunch of minimum wage scrubs that wouldn't get the job done.

As Kobe gets older and retires, Howard will then be stuck on a team with no talent and not enough cap space to sign anyone, ever!

Also, there is no way either the Magic or Lakers would make that kind of decision right now, just before they know what the next collective bargaining agreement will look like. The Magic will wait and see what the next agreement looks like, then if they still can't get Howard to sign, they will look to move him for the best deal they can get during next season.


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twenty four  
Years ago

a) Howard isn't a free agent.
b) Even if he was, that amount is more than double a max contract.
c) And even if they could pay him that, they'd have to have no more than 20 mill in salaries on their roster. Kobe alone makes more than that.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Ever heard of luxury tax? Face it, Dwight is gone and all you laker haters will have to watch the purple and gold in the finals for another three years. I like odom and Bynum for Howard and Pau and barnes for chris Paul. Far fetched but it's good to dream. Kobe hasn't finished yet...... 7 rings bitches

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yeah theres not doubting the possibility anon above, but not at $41mil a year, thats just ridiculous and unrealistic

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Mystro  
Years ago

F#@K L.A and all their bandwagon supporters, hope they end up like Cali, broke....

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Eat a dick Mystro. I've been going for LA before Bryant was drafted/traded. Back in the van exel days. Bandwagon ha ha. The funny thing is, the lakers will always draw big names. Can you tell me LA's last #1 draft pick? Don't need one. Purple and gold will always be a contender

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