The Lakers and Pacers were deep into discussions Saturday on a deal that would ship core Roy Hibbert to los angeles and as a minimum temporarily solve a problem for each, Marc Stein of ESPN.Com said.
Whether or not other players would be concerned was no longer instantly clear. The Lakers would be in a position to absorb the $15.5 million on the ultimate season of Hibbert’s contract into on hand cap space — room that had been put aside for failed makes an attempt to land a marquee free agent — making it viable they might handiest be sending draft picks to Indiana in return.
Hibbert fell out of prefer with the Pacers final season after years of undependable play, together with within the playoffs, that left the entrance place of job surprisingly outspoken about wanting to maneuver forward with him in as a minimum a reduced function and in all probability wholly long past. Larry fowl, the head of basketball operations, basically prompted Hibbert to exercise a clause in his contract to grow to be a free agent.
When Hibbert as an alternative selected to stay within the deal, comprehensible with $15.5 million on the table, he instantly became an apparent alternate candidate, much more after Indiana draft Texas middle-vigor forward Myles Turner in the lottery. Considering the fact that the free-agent market opened July 1, Hibbert had been linked because the fallback plan to most every workforce that might miss out on LaMarcus Aldridge or Kevin Love. When the Lakers formally made that record, and with Jordan Hill a free agent and Robert Sacre and Tarik Black the returning facilities, their search resulted in Indiana.
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