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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
Rumor has it that the Raptors are willing to trade Bargiani, Klezia and Calderon for Gasol. That trade makes no sense. Gasol is on the decline, has bad knees and a huge contract. We'd be trading a good role player and making our point guard depth extremely weak. I hope this rumor is not true, we'd be taking a big step back if we made this deal.
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It makes little to no sense for either team.
The Lakers want to win this year and next and this deal makes them worse for both those years.
The only reason that TO does the deal is if BC thinks that Gasol can help save his job by getting the Raps close to the play-offs and he uses that to sell ownership on his crappy job up to this point.
I guess the Raptors get the much better player so it makes some sense in a vacuum but you would think they could get pieces that, while not as good as Gasol, fit better for what the team needs to be a contender at some point.