Nets always coming in clutch to take up all the bad contracts from the rest of the league. Thank u for ur sacrifices

I’m 100% convinced this story is just smoke and the Nets aren’t looking to sign this man.

His agents just trying to drum up interest.

If the Lakers match that, they are insane

I love reaves but 44mil a year is kinda crazy.
We need to let some mid team overpay him and look the other way if that’s what we have to match.

The nets just used 5 draft picks on guards…then wanna throw this much money at another guard? Sounds suss…but yes I’m biased, I wanna keep our guy

The reporter of this story is supposedly an Laker insider has he reported anything accurate?

This feels more like Austin’s agent using The Nets because the other cap team The Bulls are going into a full rebuild and Brooklyn is trying to get better so they’re using the Nets to get the Lakers to up their offer.

Sean Marks rarely gives out bad deals and paying someone who has no accolades to his name a Max deal is something I just don’t see him doing. He gets paid to take on bad contracts, not hand them out himself.

[My asshole]: “Austin Reaves has agreed to a four-year $178.5 million contract with the Lakers, however the Lakers did not agree.”

The Nets feels like a deeply unserious franchise

I like that move for the Nets. The fit is weird, but they kinda just need to get talent in the door right now, and maybe AR can grow his game more as “the guy”. 

Nothing more than Leverage season.

This is why I love the modern NBA man.

Every time we as fans say the era of bad contracts will be over soon, the second apron will stop that, teams will wise up; some stupid GM comes around and says “I GOT ONE MORE IN ME”

It’s so funny.

reaves goes to nets and then lebron leaves? luka back to how it was with dallas …. him and a bunch of scrubs

He will ball out for them for sure

There are teams that have found winning formulas for basketball. Defense and depth.

What you deserve/can get in free agency and what you can get on a winning team have never been equal numbers

Perfect situation for him.

Nets just drafted a full bus of guards / smaller wings and now go all-in on another 28 years old guard? That just doesn’t make sense. Why would Nets overpay for AR instead of overpaying for, say, Kessler or Watson?

Plus they don’t own their own pick in 26-27 anyway, they couldn’t care less where they finish as long as their young guns get reps. Next year’s FA class is projected to be better with AD, Giannis or KAT that could realistically hit the market if you want older all-star guys or guys like Kuminga, Brandon Miller, Scoot or Amen / Ausar if you want to force another team to decide on whether matching an overpay for RFAs makes sense.

He aint gonna get them Free throws tho 

AR’s worst haircut was when he was on the road playing in New York. 

Where is the money coming from for the pistons. How far are y’all going for reaves

Reeves play off career done if he signs with Brooklyn.

He’ll get his money on bk but will be out of the nba consciousness. Especially being a few miles from the Knicks.

I was at a Starbucks recently and two dudes waiting were adamant that Russell Westbrook retired last year. They had no idea he was on Sac.

KOT4Q did a 10 year bulls 2K league sim, Reaves went to the Nets and turned them into a contender 😭

Utter Woike Nonsense

Please Brooklyn. This would be so funny

IMO if Lakers want to be competitive they should ship off Austin Reeves espescially at these market prices

everyone barring Luka is up for trade and they should look to tank the next couple of years since it looks like Spurs and OKC will dominate for the foreseeable future

better to do it now at the start of Lukas prime then to be middling and leave it too late

Why would anyone go from Lakers playing with LeBron and Luka, to the Nets? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

At what point would you choose a better team for potentially a better career over wherever you can make the most money?

Idk if people remember but Marks was known for doing this strategy prior to the big 3 and its aftermath.

He’d put high bids on RFA’s and dare the other team to match it. One example was Crabbe with Portland.

Can we stop posting bs tweets that agents tell these reporters to write? Literally this entire tweet is the agent trying to drive up the market for his client by saying the team with the most cap space will pay him a shit ton of money. This is not news.

Not like this…. not like this

Of course they are. He is an actual all star level player in his prime available in free agency. He is in no way perfect, but he would be the nets best player and the tanking motivation has been removed. But the lakers pretty much have to bring him back, the fans were just in denial over how expensive he would be

Awesome, later dude

2029 Lakers pick will come in clutch baby!!

Seems fair to me. This is what “market value” means. An FA only needs one real bidder. It’s also in the interest of the other teams aside from the Lakers to ensure Reaves doesn’t get a discount from LAL. If every team just says, “Ah, he’s re-signing with them, I’ll pay no mind,” then LAL could potentially get him at a discount. But if BKN says, “Meh, we’ll make a competitive market value offer for him, why not, we don’t have anything else going and we need to spend our cap space,” now Reaves has to decide if he would be willing to risk sacrificing a handful of mil per year on his next deal to stay in a situation he’s comfortable with in a city he loves.

Not that Brooklyn is a bad consolation prize as a city.

So this isn’t tampering?

it makes sense for a bad team w/ too much cap to overpay him and just roll the dice

I hope we let him walk

this and lbj. lakers are not getting much better this offseason

Gonna average 33 ppg on a 25-57 team

The Lakers are going to keep AR at any cost, guys.

His prime aligns perfectly with Luka. And there is such a thing as value over replacement. Maybe the Lakers don’t think his absolute value is that high, but if they let him walk, who is replacing him in the starting lineup?

If AR walks, you now have Luka smack dab in the middle of his prime trying to compete with a 42 yo LeBron and a group of journeymen. AR and Luka are the Lakers core for at least the next three years.

Austin Herro

Why would the Nets possibly want him? He’s someone who isn’t a lead player and the Nets don’t even have a main guy right now.

I like the addition of Reaves to Brooklyn, it gives them another scoring punch next to Porter and other pieces like Mann and Claxton. Then their young core on the bench could make them a little better next season.

We sort of pigeon holed into drafting another guard based on our draft position. How many do we need?