Trade deadline

[tap2390]

Originally Posted by BPo001

I?m not familiar with the Lakers cap situation, but Westbrook is a FA at the end of the season. With his contract off the books would they have room to sign Kyrie outright to a big deal without a S&T?

Here is a good primer on their cap space situation:

https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/...l-roster-money

Gist is, they can free up approximately $35m if they renounce everyone (Reaves, Hachimura, etc.), and Damian Jones doesn't exercise his player option. They can free up another $1.7m by trading Christie.

That's not even close to Kyrie's max figure of about $50m a year. I don't see Kyrie walking away from $12-15m and paying Cali state taxes.

[BPo001]

Originally Posted by tap2390

Here is a good primer on their cap space situation:

https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/...l-roster-money

Gist is, they can free up approximately $35m if they renounce everyone (Reaves, Hachimura, etc.), and Damian Jones doesn't exercise his player option. They can free up another $1.7m by trading Christie.

That's not even close to Kyrie's max figure of about $50m a year. I don't see Kyrie walking away from $12-15m and paying Cali state taxes.

I don?t think these players give a shit about state taxes. It?s always brought up when we talk about FA salaries, yet we never seem to land any big fish in free agency.