BOBBY MARKS TRADE MACHINE: The Los Angeles Lakers’ potential moves | NBA Today
Nico Harrison created the space to be able to bring in Klay Thompson and that’s not something that we saw necessarily Rob pinka do so I want to bring in our salary cap expert Bobby marks because Bobby if LeBron looking here if he takes the full Max this season it puts the Lakers over the second apron that big scary term what exactly does that mean how did the Lakers avoid it what are they trying to do here yeah Malik the second apron is at 189 right now they’re at 190 it’s most important that they’re below that second apron when we get to February doesn’t have to be right now I think when you’re looking at from the Lakers perspec there’s certainly a lot of avenues as far as they can go I think one of them is certainly when we look at a player like Christian wood if you feel like you can’t make a trade you can wave Christian Wood and stretch his money out over 3 years that would save you $2 million and that would get you under the second apron you could do that right now if you want but it’s all about getting under by the end of next year next year a couple things about the apron just so we’ve got some clar ification here the Lakers can still even though they’re over can still trade D’Angelo Russell and Ru hachimura together as long as they are below that 189 number it’s the post transactional number as long as they get by below that they can’t take back more money right now so they’re pressed right at that second apron why it’s important that they’re under when we get the februaries if they are over their 2032 first round pick becomes Frozen they won’t have the ability to trade that next year and Rob pinka has said that they would look into trading those future firsts if the right deals or future picks rather if the right deals come to fruition in order to continue to maximize around LeBron if we could bring wo back into the conversation here W what Avenues are the Lakers exploring to try to upgrade their roster uh Mark mentioned it it’s a long summer free agency the offseason just started a lot of deals um take time you’ve got GMS and team president who are going to be in Sacramento for summer league they’re going to be in Las Vegas for summer league and you typically this is how you see free agency go you see a bunch of moves right away and then it slows down um and that’s what’s happening in the marketplace now there’s there’s a few months before the season starts there’s a trade deadline in February uh but it’s not all going to happen at once and the Lakers have 15 players on their roster right now that is extremely limiting for for them Bobby described uh the salary cap limitations and so uh I I think this is going to be uh something that plays out over time but you know there may be a world where there are really no significant upgrades from the group that the Lakers have right now uh but they’ll keep talking all summer [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] to
Bobby Marks breaks out his famous trade machine to discuss what the Los Angeles Lakers can do to both get better and avoid the penalty of being above the 2nd apron.
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47 Comments
Gotta cut bronny
Another video where espn tries to figure out how to help the lakers😭🥴
Talking about the lakers is such a waste of time at this point
What happened to the pay cut? 😅
Trade Wood, Rui, and another bad contract to free space for Demar and Vucevic,AD moves to the 4 get a backup Big with the remaining space hell they can bring back Dwight.
KLAY WANTED NO PART OF JJ WHO HAS A HISTORY OF USING RACIAL SLURS
Nobody wants to play with the cancer LeBron and narcissist JJ. Why would you want to join a situation where you either will be the scapegoat for LeBron and an organization that panders to LeBron.
They went to show what they could do at the board…then did nothing. lol
Lakers 🗑️
Ratings would go thru the roof if Chiney operated the trade machine
Charky the 🤡
Just say it theyre cooked and there isnt a move that will make this roster better lol
Ultimate downfall was not attempting to keep that 2020 team mostly together, and letting Lebron influence Rob to get Russ instead of Buddy Hield.
If you read this, please send your positive thoughts and prayers for my healing.
Another ESPN Lakers video, this is a joke.
Little kids think the lakers should win a title every year like on 2k just be glad the lakers are in contention every year
Machell good Lakers
Worst lebron FO ever
If the Lakers dont make the playoffs Rob will be fired they should hire bobby marks😂
The Lakers do this every time it is free agency anyway, they throw teams together
It’s amazing how most people can’t see how utterly PATHETIC this is. I get that it’s LA and a large market but imo this is killing the NBA. There are more intriguing teams all over the NBA that fans WILL be interested in. To call ESPN sports news at this point is a friggin joke! They are nothing more than a gossip rag. A big budget YouTube account creating content for the Lakers and Cowboys and whatever other large market teams you wanna throw in there. All the ESPN analysts do is dream up ways to make the Lakers better. It’s literally almost all they ever talk about. It’s absolutely pathetic.
Does your team have a mid season tournament championship? It doesn't.
Mine does.
Suck it haters 🤣
Choke on our 17 banners as well!!
Should have kept Kuzma, KCP and that first round pick instead of getting Westbrook.
They should have gotten derozan 4 years ago
Rob Palinka needs to be thrown out of Los Angeles and banned from the city. Dude is living off of Kobe’s name. He should shine his statue everyday he shows up to the stadium.
Did anyone ever believe LeBron was going to take anything but the max possible?
Lakers front office dropped the ball. They cant sign anyone
The lakers could easily make up all the money back anyway
Please please make the music louder
"Lakers need LeBron like old people need soft shoes" 😂
"get your popcorn out because this is going to be a movie" 🍿
bronny james for first team all nba trash 🔥🔥
Good thing im a lebron fan and not a lakers fan! This organization will get one more chip and die because you traded the next 6-7 years away fro more pieces
Lakers are a clown show.
Cant wait for leloser to leave the lakers. Paycut? Yeah ok. Jennie is an idiot. Women shouldnt be owners.
Rob Pelinka and Jeanie Buss must be “really” close 🤔
The Lakers are the only team that upgrade there team for the 24-25 season, they were able 2 steal JJ Redick from the rest of the Nba,and to top it off they were able 2 draft LeBron son,Bronny what else could they possibly want,with this team they will go on to win the championship for at least until LeBron son retires.
Lakers should make a trade at the deadline
I SEE ALL OF THIS PURPLE YOU PUPPETS ARE WEARING. WE SEE YOU WE KNOW. WE SEE THE PLAN OUR GOD IS THE ONLY GOD. WE KNOW THE PLAN AND WE READY TELL Y'ALL SNAKE
So basically somebody’s getting waived. And traded before the seasons over got it lol
Can we cut this Laker talk out? They can't do diggly squat and their team is a play in team.
SPOILER ALERT
they ain't making no moves an nobody wants to play in LeLA
🤣🤡
lakers having their picks frozen might be a blessing in disguise if they breach the 2nd apron. Once lebron retires they are done contending and AD could easily start to decline. Best thing then would be to trade AD get some young talent and then repeat the cycle of how they got lebron back in 2018
Man, How about Denver? They keep getting worse and worse each season
Lakers! We gotta make it happen n bring in DEMAR DEROZAN! 1 WAY OR ANOTHER
You join the Lakers to take the blame when it all falls apart.
You know Lebron messed up the Laker’s franchise when they are talking about draft picks from the 2030’s because that’s the next time they have a draft pick. 😂