SOURCES: Nets and Lakers talking Jordan Hill deal again.

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SOURCES: After completion of the Marcus Thornton deal it looks like the Nets are willing to pay the big luxury tax hit for the Lakers Jordan Hill.

The Nets would pay $17M in luxury tax for Hill and the total payroll and tax would be a crazy $210M.

Hearing strong suggestions Nets now want to go ahead with proposed acquisition of Jordan Hill if Lakers still amenable despite huge BKN cost

— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) February 19, 2014

Lakers have been engaged in conversations elsewhere on Jordan Hill too, sources tell Yahoo Sports.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) February 19, 2014

The next trade rumor of the day comes from Yahoo Sports Adrian Wojnarowski  and he is reporting that the Nets and the Lakers have talked about Jordan Hill using the DPE they got for the Brook Lopez injury of $5.25M.

The need for an athletic big to take some of the minutes from Kevin Garnett is always on Billy King’s mind.

Los Angeles, Brooklyn have discussed Jordan Hill deal into the Nets’ Disabled Player Exception, league sources tell Yahoo.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) February 17, 2014

Nets have until March 10 to use $5.25M DPE for Brook Lopez injury. With tax hit on Hill $3.5M deal, cost to Nets: $17M. Not an easy sell. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) February 17, 2014

Lakers/Nets have discussed JHill but hearing talks very preliminary. Lots of discussions going on now. AW first reported. — Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) February 17, 2014

The NBA Trade Deadline is Thursday at 3pm.
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