Magic/ Lakers deal

[LakersGM-old]

Could i have found a better deal, that is the only question, and for what I was looking for, noone offered me one. So I took this one. How would staying where i'm at keep me better? This season, probably, but next season, i'd be left with absolutely no compensation. This way, I DO have that compensation.

[PacersGM]

i am sure someone would have offered more than a late first..
why not ask for profit too, for example? he has a reasonable contract and one of your weak spots is SG.
Sonics offered their firsts pretty cheap and have enough expirings another example imo.

[CelticsGM]

Could i have found a better deal, that is the only question, and for what I was looking for, noone offered me one. So I took this one. How would staying where i'm at keep me better? This season, probably, but next season, i'd be left with absolutely no compensation. This way, I DO have that compensation.

Hmm, maybe I'm wrong here, but I see maybe 6 teams who even have cap space to offer more than MLE to Biedrins (after resignings), and I doubt anyone would have offered Andris anything close to a 10mio deal, so you had a very very big chance to get him back for something like 10mio/1yr
(as stated earlier, he's just not that good, a very fine backup but hardly a starter)

So to improve your team with this deal you would need to get either
- a BETTER player than Biedrins with the #23 pick (+/- 3) ... imporssible if you ask me, despite this deep draft, in fact there's not even ONE PF on the list coming close to Andris
- or a BETTER player with the 8 mio cap space (difference between 10mio to resign him and the rookie's salary) ... just forget it, there isn't anybody you'll get for that money.


So that's the dilemma here: With YOUR pick + Biedrins + still 17mio cap space you'd be MUCH MUCH better off than with YOUR pick + MAGIC pick + 25mio cap space but no Biedrins anymore. Just my believe ...

 

[MagicGM]

I wouldn't really like to comment on this since I might have gotten the winning part of this deal.

But anyway, here it goes. I do understand why the Lakers do this. I don't think that Biedrins was even on his plan with Laporte and co.

Could have have gotten a better deal? Definitely. But we've got to consider that he would have gotten nothing in return in for Biedrins if he ought to wait until or after the draft. Let alone free agency, wherein re-signing Andris could be a hinder to his overhauling this year through free agency. Not to mention that deadline was vastly approaching and that he might not have even received any offer better than this, which I don't know whether he did or did not.

[CelticsGM]

...
Let alone free agency, wherein re-signing Andris could be a hinder to his overhauling this year through free agency.
...

Oh yes, great point.
The last team to completely overhaul their team through FA were the Hawks, and everyone was in awe what a great job they have done signing many of the top available guys.

a 20-43 record later you see how far that does get you.

Don't expect this to change until the real hard cap comes into effect in 2018.

[MagicGM]

plays at the east and no frontcourt, really. if you look at majority of the top teams in our division they have big man who dominates the paint and are not one dimensional.

the heat is obviously an exception to that