Lakers Cam Whitmore Trade Just Became More Likely!

Lakers Cam Whitmore Trade Just Became More Likely!

What’s going on everyone? So, some interesting news just happened uh where the Houston Rockets have waved Jock Lindell, right? He had a non-G guaranteed. Now, the reason that this is interesting is because there was a lot of kind of word going around that the Lakers might end up being a part of that 17 massive trade and that they might have gotten Cam Whitmore uh in that deal. And the thought process was okay, they get Cam Whitmore and they’d get Jock Lindell. But some of the kind of reports that are going around, again, all this stuff is speculation till it’s actually finalized. But some of the reports that are going around right now don’t really mention Jock Lindell, just Cam Whitmore to the Lakers. Right now, the reason that this still might happen for those that are thinking like, oh, like it’s not going to like, no. So, Houston, even after waving Jock Lindell, are still 2 million over the cap, right? They need to be under that first apron because they’re hard kept there through the Dorian Finny Smith uh signing and then as well as the Clint Capella sign and trade. So, they have no choice. They have to clear 2 million off their books. So, the thought is that the Lakers will end up landing Cam Whitmore as part of this trade. Uh and how that goes about, we’ll see, right? Lakers do have a couple trade exceptions, but Lakers also need to stay under the apron themselves. Uh Lakers are like five and some change under the apron. So they could maybe work something like that where they end up kind of absorbing a uh Cam Whitmore. Um you know with this expanded potential seven trade, my guess is that this is where the Lakers will benefit and end up landing like a Nick Richards and a uh a Cam Whitmore because my guess again this just all of this is just again speculation and guess, right? But Houston needs to get off of Cam Whitmore, right? Lakers will probably end up taking Cam Whitmore as part of like, you know, a a sign and trade um with the Lakers. And then the Lakers will probably end up landing a um you know, somebody like a a Nick Richards. There we go. Uh, and then now they end up with a Nick Richards and a Cam Whitmore and then somebody like uh a Gabe Vincent or maybe like a Shake Milton and you know somebody goes to another team and then they end up waving that guy, right? And then there will be all kinds of assets and stuff like that. Problem is it’s like a seven teamer. So it’s going to be very complicated if all this stuff plays its part. But you got to imagine that they’re going to solve this issue one way or another through this big massive trade. Houston that is. So my guess again I want to be clear it’s just a guess right is that the Lakers will land at least Cam Whitmore right because again they could you know work something out where they you know trade exception take him in I believe they can take him in on the bianual. So maybe they’ll do something like that but then you also need to get a center a backup center right. So, like point is Lakers would need to they they’d have to get crafty and creative in order to essentially absorb uh Cam Whitmore unless they end up making some other moves with some other trades. Now, again, the Lakers could wave Shake Milton. So, they could take Cam Whitmore, wave Shake Milton, maybe even Shake Milton’s going out, but like Houston, their their part of this will be um you know, essentially probably a Dorian Finny Smith sign and trade as well. So, what they’ll probably do is take on both guys and then some of the salary or whatever, right? They’ll structure it through the the mid-level exception or whatever, right? So, that is my guess. It it’s again, it’s probably going to be pretty complicated, but um Cam Whitmore, right? The question is like what is his contract look like? Um you know, how much is he making? Can the Lakers even pull some of that off? Luckily, he is making, you know, pennies uh compared to to what some in the league. He’s making 3.5 million. Let’s call it four million, right? So, the Lakers should be able to easily kind of navigate that and with so many teams on board, you know, again, they they have luckily the Lakers have Shake Milton as an expiring or as a a non-G guaranteed correction, not expiring, non-garanteed, right? So, Lakers would send out Shake Milton. My guess, again, this is all just guess. Send out Shake Milton to somebody that is taking him on. Maybe it’s like Houston or something like that. Uh or not Houston, Atlanta. There we go. Atlanta or somebody like that. and then they just kind of wave him, right? And then he becomes a free agent because it’s non-g guaranteed money. So they they could take him on board, be a part of it. Um, you know, there’s teams. The problem is it’s all just like speculation and there’s all kinds of different cuz like if you listen to like Warriors people or Atlanta’s people or whatever, like they all have like their different takes on what is going to happen. So again, I want to be clear like we nobody knows what is going to happen yet, especially with seven teams in the mix, right? There’s so many moving parts, right? Brett Seagull said that it might just be straight up, you know, just like picks and like a bunch of separate trades all kind of lumped together. I don’t know, right? Cuz again, Houston has to get under the apron. So, they have to do something. Is it could they do it in a separate trade that’s not involved in the 17? Sure. But why wouldn’t they do it in the mix of this? Not even to the Lakers. I think that they’re going to send Cam Whitmore out somewhere, but to send Cam Whitmore to any other team, you’re not going to get anything back, right? at least you could do it and justify it for the uh you know Dorian Finny Smith trade rather than just losing Cam for nothing, right? Maybe you know Lakers throw in a pick swap or something like that to end up getting it done because you’re getting Cam Whitmore for nothing, right? Like that is something that could end up happening or maybe you know the pick swap is going to Atlanta in order to to take on Shake Milton so that way you can bring in Cam Whitmore, right? like there’s going to be a lot of moving parts. And again, trades are hard enough as is in just, you know, a singular trade. Like you and me are making a trade. You start adding three teams, four teams, five and all the way up to seven teams. Yes, some of this might just be straightforward, but I think some of this is going to be a little kind of convoluted. I think some of these things are going to be a little all over the place. But again, we’ll see, right? Jock Lindell. They had to wave Jock Lindell because Jock Lindell’s um salary became fully guaranteed uh on the seventh. So they have to wave him before the seventh, right? And they need to get under. They need they need to try to clear as much as possible. So now they need to clear their 2 million over. So that means you have to clear 2 million just to get under. It makes sense that it would be Cam Whitmore because Cam Whitmore, like I mentioned, is making 4 million. So you can clear, you know, the the 2 million plus have an extra gap of 2 million or whatever. And then that way when you get to, you know, the buyout market or something like that, you can kind of wait, be patient, maybe get a guy um to kind of add to to the back end of the roster or something like that if if need be, right? We’ll see. Again, we’ll see how many players when all is said and done Houston has on the roster. We’ll see how many, you know, moves and, you know, players that go in and out and all that stuff. But I do think that this is kind of the signal that matches up with some of the reporting that like the Lakers wouldn’t get cuz originally it was Dorian Finny Smith for Jock Lindell and Cam Whitmore, right? That that that would be the sign and trade because Houston could take on 15 million in salary by doing that move at that time. This was before Clint Capella. This before all of that. Then they made the Clint Capella trade and it was like, oh, they can’t pay Clint Capella, so they’re going to have to work something out. So then they did the sign in trade with them through a second, but they’re still over the cap. And again, they’re hardcapped. It’s not a uh like, oh, hey, you’re only you’re only 2 million over. Don’t worry about it. No, you can’t be one cent over the hard cap, right? So they have to figure something out. So now you’re hearing the reports that no, what’ll happen is the Lakers will get Cam Whitmore and like a sign and trade with Dorian Finny Smith and then however they fudge the numbers is how they fudge the numbers to make it work, right? So Lakers instead of getting Jock Lindell and Cam Whitmore, which I mean Cam Whitmore is the prize. That’s the guy you want. But I did kind of want Jock Lindell because one again clear him, clear some salary. Two, um you could have maybe used him and Shake Milton and that’s like 11 11 million in non-g guaranteed money. Plus, you know, you throw in like a Dalton Connect or something like that or add another player, maybe you could have went and got, you know, a $20 million guy or something like that and been like, “Hey, yeah, you know, not we’re not giving you the farm, but you can clear 11 million almost 12 million off your books immediately, right?” Or I think it’s 11 million because I think Shakes’s exactly three and I think Lindell’s exactly eight. So, could have done something like that to where, you know, you ended up trading another piece. But look, if the Lakers just end up with Cam Whitmore out of this, like if that’s all that ends up happening, I am more than happy with that. If you told me like because think about Lakers already filled in Dorian Finny Smith, right? So like Lakers lost Dorian Finny Smith or let Dorian Finny Smith go. I don’t think they really lost him. I think they let him go and it freed up the full mid-level exception which allowed them to get Aon and Jake Lorravia. Right. So I mean alone I would have like if you told me right now Tyler who would you rather have Aton or Dorian Finny Smith as much as I like Dorian Finny Smith I would take Aton because Eightton’s upside is better. He’s younger and he solves a bigger need right now. Like Lakers worst case scenario they have multiple wins and multiple players that they can get through the season with right and be patient and wait for that right trade. But they don’t have a center right. So of course I would take DeAndre Aiden. So, they get DeAndre Aiden and Jake Laravia in place of a uh Dorian Finny Smith. That alone is a good kind of trade, right? If you get Cam Whitmore too, Dorian Finny Smith is the gift that keeps on giving, right? Because you’re telling me the Lakers essentially, if you trace it back to the trade, they give up three seconds, D’Angelo Russell and u Maxwell Lewis, right? I would trade that alone for just DeAndre Aton if I could, right? And then you’re getting Jake Lorravia who’s a 23-year-old 3 and D type of wing 68 play out of the forward spot potentially like a Ruie replacement. And then you also get Cam Whitmore who’s a hyper athletic versatile 3 and D exactly what I mean Cam Whitmore could start for the Lakers this season and it would make sense. I mean his ability to to score and and he has a ton a world of potential. This is a guy that has star potential. I’m not saying he’ll ever live up to it or he’ll become it but he has it. It’s there, right? This is a guy that was projected to be a top 10 pick at worst in in his draft, but then, you know, injuries and kind of questions, you know, person personal questions about like his character and stuff like that, you know, all that kind of came to light and then it was like boom, he just kept dropping and then people thought they were still going to like, oh, he’s not going to drop far and he just kind of fell into Houston’s lap. But we’ll see. 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