Tampering for marcus smart in big 2026

Defense based player who can’t shoot….. yea that man sounds like a Rocket get him in there!

Two summers in a row the rockets take a veteran defensive specialist from us. He’ll definitely be missed.

Why are the Lakers letting him go? Who will play defense for them

How is this not tampering?

Holy steal

Quite a loss for the Lakers. He was their tone-setter, defender and hustle guy.

Tampering?

Never heard of her..

Glue guy rate 7 mil = Highest paid kicker NFL

Stress levels and job security could not be more different 😂

Dang. I enjoyed the Marcus Smart experience. Get your bag

If the Jazz offer Walker 38 million, they’d have their 15 million MLE. The Jazz better steal Smart last minute

I thought it was 3 years 21 mil a year and I was like “Ok Rob I get why you didn’t bite”.

3 years 7 mil a year? Wtf are you doing Rob. We’re burning more than that on rostering regular season fillers at the end of the roster. 

He signed Laravia for 6 mil and balks at Smart for 7 mil?

Even missing most of an entire year, 7 mil for the potential of healthy Smart is worth that cost.

He gave Vando 12 mil a year for 5 damn years even though his injury history was just as ass as Smart’s.

We’re gonna gut the entire roster so we can pay Duren or Kessler like 45 mil and have like 5 playable players in the playoffs.

Taking a defensive specialist from LA with nagging injuries seemed to work well for Houston last time with Dorian Finna-Miss.

get paid marcus

Him getting about $7 mil per year sounds like a bargain for what he can bring to a team.

Can’t believe the market for him is not that good, unless he’s willing to take a massive pay cut to join Houston for some reason, doubt it’s just because if Udoka but who knows

they need a PG that can shoot and also orchestrate their offense. smth they lacked this season

That’s it, I assumed with how heavily the rockets were being linked they were going to overpay him

Interesting. The Lakers could easily outbid this with their Room Exception alone which is what a lot of Lakers fans were expecting them to do. I’m guessing it is the 3 years, not the money that the Lakers don’t want to commit to.

I really don’t understand this move by the rockets. Don’t they need shooting, ballhandling and playmaking? lol

Genuinely hope he becomes DFS v2 for them.

If this is the case, why couldn’t LAL sign him with the room exception for 3 years descending with each year?

He must really want out or they giving more than $7 million AAV.

Good for Marcus Smart. Hate to see him go but that is a lot of guaranteed money

Why in the world are the lakers not matching that. Can the Room Exception of $9M not go for 3 years? I was fully expecting him to take all of the room exception

Rob Pelinka I’m turning you into sludge

I still don’t like the fit unless some trades are on the way, but I also doubt we were finding a player with more impact at that price tag.

These mother fuckers want kd to die out there lol

So is this not tampering

What happened with Tari Eason. Isn’t he supposed to be a free agent this summer? No one is talking about him

Love Marcus, but he’s injury prone and cant shoot. 3 years for MS isn’t a good idea. Carr can give LAL 15-20/minutes a night. If Pulooka can get another younger D wing…highsmith(BKN perhaps?), I’d rather go that way.  I also think Rui us gone, and we shouldn’t sweat that either… Great 3P shooter but meh D and can’t rebound or pass for that matter… @ $18 mill. So no. Get younger and less 1 dimensional players. Not a lotta faith in Pulooka, but we’ll see. He’s made bad moves  and good ones b4 so we shall see….

They needed another poor decision maker that can’t shoot for shit. Can never have too many on one roster, apparently.

Lakers should at least match that. No brainer.

lakers instantly losing their best defender, yikes

I don’t know why either side wants this

Rockets stay on brand pillaging Lakers players, a tale as old as time

Would be hilarious if this turns into another DFS situation. 

Tampering? lol it doesn’t even matter anymore

Are the lakers unable to top this? They need him

and they just lost 3 second round picks and will be fined $500k /s

Tread lightly Houston

The last Luka/lebron merchant from the lakers you overbid on didn’t turn out so great

I love smart more than life itself but I would have serious holdups about offering him long term money, I question his body aging in the near future

Smart gonna be making like 4 percwnt of the cap that fourth and the fo just like nah get Houston here’s our fourth best player

Someone get the league on the line!!! They are cheating in Houston again!!!!/s

Marcus Smart and KD seems like a duo that aren’t compatible in the slightest. Burner accounts are gonna be cooking this season.

Why don’t the Lakers match this at least. Oh right because Pelinka.