Quote Originally Posted by dankrutka View Post
The CBA is very complicated and even if we got rid of Perk's contract via trade, we could not pay Gasol more money. We can offer him just over $5 million if we sign him and about $6.6 million in a sign-and-trade. In sum, there's no realistic scenario where we could offer Gasol over $6.6 million per year.
Where did you get that info?

If OKC were to use the trade exception, we could send PJIII to the Lakers and give Gasol upwards of $8.5, throw in Thabeet and Roberson and you can go even higher.