LeBron James agreed to signal a two-year, $104 million max take care of the Los Angeles Lakers, and he’ll get his want of enjoying alongside his son Bronny. Nonetheless, the max contract will problem the crew concerning roster enchancment in the event that they don’t get underneath the second apron.
Try the preliminary response from social media following the information.
I forgot that D’Angelo Russell has a $700K unlikely bonus.
So, the Lakers are literally about $12M over the primary apron and $1.2M over the second apron.
And Bronny James may signal for greater than the rookie minimal too, through the Second Spherical Choose Exception.
TL/DR: Lakers are over… https://t.co/6hj9KUb3j8
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) July 3, 2024
this implies the Lakers are in all probability making an attempt to make a commerce for any individual the place they combination wage (Jerami Grant? Cam Johnson?), and if they’ll pull one off, LeBron will take barely much less to allow them to match it underneath the second apron https://t.co/isghr0XXmZ
— Jason Patt (@Bulls_Jay) July 3, 2024
keep in mind throughout the commerce deadline… when Lakers followers was BEGGING Theft Pelinka to make a transfer… ANY transfer… & he mentioned it was finest to face pat that exact second in time… cuz they’d 3 FRPs obtainable to aggressively attempt to enhance the crew in the summertime… now right here we’re pic.twitter.com/aanRCnFYDM
— ♕𝕕𝕒𝕧𝕠𓅓 (@shpillo_) July 3, 2024
This 2 path method the Lakers had been speaking was at all times bs.
No one “contends” whereas “constructing for the longer term” on the identical time, efficiently.
One OR BOTH routes find yourself struggling.
The Lakers are in a rebuild. They simply do not wanna inform the reality about it.
— Ricky (@MrRickySpanish) July 3, 2024
There’s not likely a strategy to sugarcoat how unhealthy of an offseason this has been for Rob Pelinka and the Lakers.
— Daniel Starkand (@DStarkand) July 3, 2024
