Pretty cool stat

Congrats to him for that

Was VanVleet the previous high?

Edit: previous vs precious

I mean, he would have been drafted if he didn’t ask teams not to. Made the right call though.

That’s almost Trae Young money!

Closed the championship window before it even started

i already know this contract is going to age terribly

Lakers are never winning a title with Luka.

Making Jalen Rose’s whole career in 2 years.

Wow poor Luka what exactly can they do for him to contend lol.

Reaves is another food on defence

LeGone

Eh. The nature of the cap continuing to go up is there are always deals being signed that seem nuts at the time but turn out being fine. And it’s usually these borderline all star types where it seems most unreasonable at the time.

His game isn’t particularly reliant on athleticism and the deal will be up when he’s 32, so it’s not like he’ll be that old. And there’s the added benefit that he has a lot less miles on him than most borderline all-stars his age. I get why it seems nuts but I think it’ll be fine.

He’s going to Miami lmao

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Everything I’ve read says he is

I think I just got a second hand high cause I think I read $185m too

Better take another hit because it does

Yeah close call on that one, don’t read it again

Luka trade request is gonna hit like crack in 2 years

Gg Luka Lakers tenure title hopes

Under the new CBA the formula for a title will be to have 2 max guys and fill out the edges. Austin Reeves can’t be your max #2

The Luka era in LA ended before it even started.

Over before it began.

And the Thunder still wouldn’t give up Chet for Reeves in a million years.

But your max guy is still way more worth it because he‘s younger and a demon against anyone other than Wemby. Reaves gets cooked in the Playoffs by literally everybody

I’d rather have Chet, he’s at worst still a top 5 defender in the league

Holmgren can do a few things Reaves cannot, and is 5 years younger than Reaves.

At least Chet fills a position of need and is an elite defender. Reaves is just redundant next to Luka at this price.

I don’t understand how he convinced them to do this

Brunson’s success after leaving the Mavs probably scared every team. Luka is still scarred from that, and he’s probably on board with the Lakers giving Reaves a max.

Probably my favourite player of all-time. Easily the player I’ve watched most in my lifetime (26). And Nico tanked so much of his career. It is truly infuriating to think about…

Luka was already put in a less than ideal situation landing on the mavs. Who basically had no assets relative to most lottery teams.

Then they blew what they had on a KP experiment that didn’t work out.

Then they let Brunson walk.

Then they managed to spend a year and half using what little they did have to build a contender.

And they traded him.

The first 8 years of his career were basically flushed down the toilet.

Yeah that trade was so bad it might “what if” his entire career. I love seeing the Lakers crash and burn but wasting what should be prime Luka is sad.

Rob could’ve gotten Claxton for free and didn’t, pretty obvious he can’t cook for shit

Its been 3 months of “Reaves cap hold is 20 million and it doesnt affect the signings”, yet here you are

Lakers are signing Reaves last. He has only a $20 mil cap hold. Lakers can still make moves as long as they’re willing to go over the cap (which historically they do). You’ll be fine as long as LeBron doesn’t come back, otherwise you’re right you’re not getting anyone else.

Like who the flying fuck were we competing against?!!! The fuck is Pelinka doing?

I would say I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m actually not.

Always love an undrafted success story

I can’t believe the guy who wasted LeBron and ADs prime would waste Luka’s prime, who could have seen this coming!

Good news is you could get a guy like AD back for Luka

Center was always gonna have to come through trade or maybe it’ll be Mitch Robinson

he’s going to retire early at this rate

He’s not worth that, that’s the problem🤦🏻‍♂️

If you had told me a few years back that “Austin Reaves” would be making 46 mil a year I would’ve called the police

Lakers are just gonna run it back with a new center and probably less depth. I don’t even think they can bring back LeBron, get Lu dort for instance, and get a center. Salary wise I don’t even think that works. And it leaves them thin on depth if it did work.

I’m talking about them now.

Trae Young is younger, has far more individual accolades, and more playoff success as the lead guy

Trae Young is significantly better than reeves

If Ajay Mitchell hit the open market rn he’d be getting $35 mil+ a year tbf

AR was coming off an injury and shouldn’t have played. H

eating

The Rob Pelinka finisher. (It’s a bad finisher)

Two chicks at the same time

0.50% and I’m good

You can not overpay still. At a certain point an overpay isn’t worth not losing them.

Reaves balls out when the other guys are gone and has improved consistently. So this is great for his career arc. I just don’t think he can be your 2nd best option, but maybe they think he’s closer to Brunson and how the Mavs were good with that combo, thinking they can replicate it.

It’s still an overpay

 once LeBron is gone, they will get cap from there

No we won’t? Between AR and Luka we’re not getting cap space again, we’ll just go from very over the cap to slightly over the cap. If LeBron comes back the only way his absence creates salary flexibility for us is if he gets traded away for longer term money while on that deal.

They’ve had a choice for years. Some of us have been begging the Lakers to trade Reeves since 2023, y’all kept saying, “Nah, he’s a good value, keep him for now, keep him for now”, then you’re going to turn around and eat a max contract as if you had a gun to your heads?

But walk where? After the last trade the bulls and nets used their space. So literally no team could offer him more than $30m 

People in here don’t understand contracts

But on the other hand, this is close to being a untradable contract!

He asked for this^

They don’t care and I wouldn’t either lol

“Every idiot in here” understands that the Lakers are not building a championship roster in the 2026 offseason, and this contract screws them for the future.