Stein – “The Lakers, league sources say, are a lock to match any offer on Reaves — even if someone signs Reaves to the maximum allowable offer sheet worth nearly $100 million over four years.”
"The Lakers, league sources say, are a lock to match any offer on Reaves — even if someone signs Reaves to the maximum allowable offer sheet worth nearly $100 million over four years."
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— Harrison Faigen (@hmfaigen) June 27, 2023
by daftmunt
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Reaves really about to make more than D’Lo. Good for him.
THANK. FUCJING. GOD. I just hope Reaves doesn’t turn into Jordan Poole after tho…. I know he wont… but please dont
Don’t Make that Same Mistake we did with Caruso
(Picking THT over Caruso and trading for Westbrook have been the biggest blunders in recent history)
We’ve known this
The most AR can get for his next 2 years are 12m/yr. And no one will care how much he get for last 2 yrs of his contract coz Bron most likely retired already and we probably will rebuild. Just match whatever offer he get.
So that report early was just false?
Nobody is offering him that btw.
If it ain’t the spurs I don’t see how get gets a 25 million dollar offer
Reaves better take D’Lo out for a steak dinner with that kind of money!
If I’m another team, this means I can offer reaves 4/100 and not actually have to pay him, but stick LA with 2 years of AR at 36M+
I prefer there be doubt on our intent to match so teams actually offer contracts they’d be willing to pay instead of sticking us with the highest bill possible
This is why it’s a little tricky for us to make moves right now. We have a lot of moving pieces atm. Once those get sorted out, trades become more navigateable.
So Reaves will be making 35 million a year 3?
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Don’t see that aging well.
Thank god. Some stupid report today saying that they drafted fino to replace Reaves. Thought that wasn’t true
Shaq felt he had to leave LA in 2004 because he couldn’t get 20M per from Dr. Buss.
Almost 20 years later, the Austin Reaves of the world walk to 25M per.
Amazing.
Honestly u gotta do whatever to resign Reaves and Rui role players like them are hard to come by. Mofos who don’t know the game won’t understand continuity is key. Without it u can’t win. Legit look at the past 2 teams that made the finals continuity is a huge reason as to why.
Hell 2019-2020 had continuity in Bron Javale Kuz KCP Caruso and Rondo
Exactly…stupid ass Trevor Lane was spreading bullshit with his replacement shit with the draft pick…
I feel like they keep reporting this story just to hope another team does this lol.
Hilarious. Y’all are about to max out a 13/3/3 player lol
We better
Some wild game theory here… do you broadcast that you *will* match anything, so teams don’t bother putting in offer sheets, or do you broadcast that you *won’t* match a max offer, so teams don’t put out BS offer sheets just to gouge you.
Letting Reaves walk would signal a deeply unserious front-office.
It’s truly dumb to see so many of ya’ll complain about Reaves making 36M in years 3&4 but also saying “we have to re-sign him no matter what”. Lmfao, yes, I agree with re-signing him. Im not complaining about him making so much when he’s still gonna get underpaid the first 2 years.
Also, if that’s the only way to keep him, fuck it, you live with it. Better than letting him walk for nothing. An asset is an asset.