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A side conversation in the Lebron thread made me think of this. If there is any Laker player from any era that you have watched that you could say would remind you of yourself, you could see emulating a style of play, or related personality wise, closely rooted for or felt a connection to, who would it be and why?

I would probably pick Derek Fisher. The player. Not the playa.



Div III school. Hard worker. Always in shape. Got the most out of his talent. Solid locker room leader, steady presence on the floor, and prepared to succeed in the big moments when he had the opportunity.

I also suck at layups lol.

2nd is Mark Madsen. Pale, worked hard, can't dance, hustle.

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So with LABron (not since '96 with Shaq, have we nabbed "the" free agent) about to make his first public appearance and announcement as a Laker today, its a good time to look at our final books, some key upcoming dates and how the rest of 2018/19 free agency has gone so far. (All sourced material is from Spotrac.com)

LA is capped out and looking at about 106.5m in team salary (roughly 4.5m above the salary cap of 101.9m) for 15 players on the roster (not counting our 2way contracts of Caruso and Wear). We're roughly 17m away from the luxury tax threshold (123.7m) and roughly 23m away from the cap apron (aka hard cap of 129.8m). We are not in any danger of paying tax or being hard capped this coming year.

Also, we used up roughly all but about 1m of the room exception (4.45m) to sign Beasley. We used the vet min exception (1.5m will show on our books) to sign McGee (who will actually get paid 2.4m...