For that exact reason, I never guessed the Celtics would get anything of note for Rajon Rondo, never mind a lightly-protected 1st and Jae Crowder. When you listed all the point guards, yeah, it looked bleak. But the right injury at the right time...you never know.
Yeah, I can see someone giving up a pick and a prospect for Lopez, but I don't expect either to be of much face value. Add in that Lopez makes $21M and it's tough to match up salaries for really any of the contenders.
Portland doesn't really match up with the salaries they have.
Cleveland can't match up without gutting their bench.
NYK don't have the salaries unless they move Rose, which would be a lateral move.
TOR doesn't really need him, nor do they have many salaries to match
GS can't make it work
HOU would have to gut their SF spot by including Ariza and Brewer to make it work
LAC don't need him
OKC doesn't make much sense
Even if a big goes down on one of these teams, it's going to be difficult just making the numbers work.
Ironically, the best deal I could come up with is from Boston. Something like Amir, Jerebko and Rozier for Lopez. Gives the C's a low post option on offense and gives the Nets a good prospect in Rozier. But I don't think the C's would do it.