[Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective – Key Trade Deadline Deals To Watch | ESPN](https://www.espn.com/radio/play/_/id/39327340)
Summary:
Marks: “Lakers are $1.3M above the luxury tax and $4.9M below the first apron. Lakers are a repeater tax team, 4 years in a row out of 5 years. That’s a small amount but they’re still in the tax.”
Windhorst: “There are ways for Lakers to make a trade to shed $1.3M to try and improve the roster and to get out of the tax.”
Marks: “Like a… $18M player (hinting Dejounte Murray) for a $13M player (hinting Austin Reaves)?”
Windhorst: “Right, it doesn’t take high level cap mechanics how the Lakers can trade for Dejounte Murray and get out of the luxury repeater tax, which would save the Lakers… around the neighborhood of $15M. Lakers (ownership) can find uses for that money. I remember when the Lakers made a deadline deal years ago trading Chris Mihm just to save $3M. I remember saying to somebody: ‘Why would the Lakers do that?’ And they’re like: ‘That’s another $3M Buss could take to Vegas.’ It was a joke but that’s true. Like if the Lakers could find a way to save $6M, that means each of the six Buss kids will take home an extra $1M each. I’m not saying the Lakers make decisions based on that, but if you look at the possibility of trying to improve your roster and saving around $15M it might make it easier for the Lakers to even include a draft pick to do it.”
by JanuaryCarl
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Wish our owners were multibillionaires but instead we have the Buss Brokies.
Maybe I’m just fucking stupid but how on earth does trading a player for someone with a larger salary LOWER your luxury tax bill?
If only we had an owner with deep pockets like Ballmer or etc
We can’t be run like a mom and pop team
Sad af that the Lakers are ran like a mom & pop shop
Holy fuck sell the god damn team Jeanie this is embarrassing
Moving any player that wasn’t in rotation last game, but Gabe will not affect how competitive this team is and I’ll see no problem saving some money for the owners
Moving Gabe makes sense
One of the most profitable franchises in the NBA folks.
Yay Jeanie and the ownership group get to pocket more money instead of using it to improve the team
As much as I criticized the lakers for years, the last ppl I wanna hear talk about lakers is windhorse and marks who’s been wrong and was talkin shit about pelinka before we won the 2020 ring. These are the same idiots who said rob didn’t know how cap works and other bullshit. So fuck this fat ass and that bald headed clown
Considering how much they like to criticize the Lakers for saving money, how come they said nothing about the Clips releasing Eric Gordon, in a move to save luxury tax when the narrative on him is that he never makes a move to save money?
It’s ok guys. We’re going to be playing in June
Which means dlo for tyus jones would bring them well below the tax
This is all hot take from jellyroll
Whether or not Jeanie makes a decision based off saving money that’s just sad truth of this being a business first. It’s business first then compete. When they ride the fine line of compete for the business we’re at a disadvantage to richer owners
Didn’t I call it like a week ago.
This cheap owner is a fuckin fraud.
Jeanie if you are reading this go to hell woman.
You have LEBRON FUCKING JAMES AND YOUR BEING CHEAP!!???
Bron is a billionaire. I bet he could team up with magic and pitch to buy the team
One of the most valuable teams being run by poverty owners
This sub has a weird thing for other people’s pockets
The Buss’ dont even own the team outright to do that. ya’ll take these talking heads way too seriously.
Tbf if you can save money and get better why not? And no the Lakers are not trading Reaves for Murray. The pod hinted at either Rui or Dlo.
Gotta love this team’s fans, just taking everything negative anyone says about this team as gospel
That said, if there’s a way to shed that money to get under the tax without harming the team, or even better yet, improving it, why shouldn’t the owners do it? Resetting the repeater tax is a good thing for future flexibility. Keeping options open isn’t some major offense, y’all.
Sell the team!
Inflation hitting ownership hard
I hate were a mom and pop franchise. We always called big market team but the bus family always nearly broke or act like it
It’s hard to understand a team that is one of the jewels of the sport, in a huge market, with a worldwide fanbase—being run like a rundown laundromat.
This is a Lakers hit piece IMO lol
Most people on this sub clearly don’t know how to run a business. You’re going to naturally want to cut unnecessary cost to improve your profits, so if they move Hayes for a non guaranteed contract and then cut the player they got back, then that’s just a smart way to run your business.
The Lakers in general have been a team that’s been in the luxury every year LeBron has been here, which is something most people crying on this sub will overlook to fit their narrative. It’s also beneficial to stay under the 2nd apron of the new CBA and how teams over can’t sign buyout players, use the MLE, how teams can’t trade future 1st round picks more than 6 years into the future, how they can’t take back more money then they’re sending out in a trade, how they can’t send cash in a trade, etc.
When it comes to the Lakers, Windhorst is a notorious pessimist and all of his practical thinking goes out the window. He has been SO wrong on all potential Lakers trades as of late… he said it would take multiple picks to get rid of Westbrook, is constantly suggesting trades that are vast overpayments, etc. He’ll say the Lakers have to trade $1.50 for $1.00 and then follow-up by talking about another trading $0.50 for $1.00. I wouldn’t listen to anything he says with respect to the team and potential deals.
They specifically said the number $15.7M which is, Rui basically. Seemed to be aware of a very specific trade in the works regarding Dejounte Murray and Rui.