02-16-2022, 05:34 PM
(02-16-2022, 05:28 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Wow what...? A team as desperate as the Lakers turning down Wood doesn't make sense to me.
Must've been Westbrick+THT+2 FRP for Wall+Woo
Sharpe mentioned it on Undisputed with no details except the Lakers didn't want a bigger tax bill.
McMenamin: “There was an iteration of the John Wall trade that included Christian Wood that would have involved more money. I’ve been told from other sources in Houston that there was a message that the Lakers were not willing to take on more money.”
Shelburne: “That’s kind of the word around the league that the Lakers were making calls, if there was a trade that made sense, they would do it. I’ve heard it described as ‘maybe half-hearted efforts.’ They would do something if it was low-hanging fruit but they weren’t really willing to feel any pain, whether that was luxury tax money, whether that was more encumberment in the future, whether that was draft compensation. In other words, they called, they tried to do some things but there wasn’t a sense of the same kind of urgency I think you heard from the players the night of the Milwaukee game and especially after the Portland game.”
Some sites are reporting pick swaps and others say 2027 FRP:
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2022...ob-pelinka
https://fadeawayworld.net/nba-media/los-...e-deadline