we're hardcapped at the first apron, which is 172. we have beasley's bird rights and can sign him to higher than min.
Fantastic off-season, value all around, kept our guys at about value or cheaper than expected, Rui 17, DLo 18.5, Reaves 14. Basically swapped out Troy, Schröder, Beasley, Bamba, Walker for Prince, Vincent, Reddish, Hayes and our rookies, really solid stuff.
Wanted to post this here as well. For all the bad rep Pelinka got, he has played this offseason really well. To me that's 3 out of 4 seasons I consider a success under his stewardship. On top of that he has given himself a huge amount of optionality, he can sign a single vet minimum and stay under the luxury tax or resign some of our FA's like Beasley, Bamba or Lonnie or he can S&T someone like Beasley for a big too? ---- So from what I can tell this is our current salary structure for the following season: Lebron James: $46,698,737 Anthony Davis: $40,600,080 D'Angelo Russell: $17,788,462 Rui Hachimura: $15,740,741 Austin Reaves: $12,002,000 Gabe Vincent: $10,476,190 Jared Vanderbilt:$4,698,000 Taurean Prince: $4,516,000 Jalen Hood-Schifino: $3,078,800 Jaxson Hayes: $2,165,000 Cam Reddish: $2,165,000 Maxwell Lewis: $1,828,300 Max Christie: $1,719,864 That puts us somewhere around $163,495,094.00. So theoretically, we are currently under the luxury tax line of $165m and have space for one more vet minimum. The questions becomes, do we play it cheap and not pay any tax and reset our repeater tax situation, OR do we go past the tax line to the hard cap of $172,346,000? If we go to the hard cap we can resign one of our the free agents we still retain bird rights to. Beasley, Lonnie?
Even if he worked full time at it. Nah man he was terrible at his personnel decisions. Props for helping close LeBron.
He just had a solid interview at summer league, I’m sure video will be available soon, but this pretty much covers what he said
I like hearing that AD will play with another big at times. Still support him starting and finishing at the 5, but like the potential to go big at times in between. Also nice hearing that one of our coaches (Jent) has experience with Reddish and advocated for the kid. At the minimum, it’s a no risk, high reward signing.
Sounds good but if we're going that route, we DEFINITELY need another big capable of 20 MPG (regardless of whether they play that much or not). Definitely reassuring. If Handy and Ham can keep it simple for him and keep him engaged, he's a huge bargain. If not, he's cheap and will sit at the end of the bench. No harm. No foul.
I'm not sure if Hayes is enough. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si...cy-lakers-sign-jaxson-hayes-analysis-pelicans
Hayes isn't enough by any means but he can help. I like his energy. Imo Castleton is already better than Hayes for what we need. I do want another big to feel comfortable. Not sure who it going to be. Not much out there. I want LeBron and AD spending many 4th qtrs sitting on the bench watching the squad put the wraps on games.
