It’s such a cursed team, I love it

A down right super team in 2013

I mean… in 2009 LeBron and Dwight Howard alone on a team have a good chance at a chip.

Easily wins a title in 2016

If you had all these players in their prime on the same team together it honestly would be

As I sit here playing 82-0, I was thinking about what this roster’s record would be if they were all in their prime. Who would the five even be?

throw in half a potato, baby you got a stew goin!

I’m making it in 2k as we speak

He’s been retired forever what is this lmao

You only renounce rights when you need to sign a free agent just in case.

If you are ever bored look at who the Timberwolves had rights to, I think they still have Evan Turner

Edit: I was looking into it more, warriors still have bogut, jerebko, matt Barnes and west

Dwight?

CARMELO CARMELO

Somehow, Carmelo returned.

I know you’re just making a funny joke but a team having a player on their cap holds doesn’t prevent the player from joining other teams. It’s purely a placeholder within the salary cap to prevent teams from circumventing the salary cap.

There’s been rumors floating around for years that LeBron was banging Bronny mom

FaZe Bronny? The streamer?

The actor?

I think they’re half brothers

You’re asking if LeBron James is related to LeBron James? They’re the same person, dummy

Doubt it, James is a pretty common last name

Lebron wishes he was related to the goat

I’m still just going to remember him for taking way too many edibles on a flight and having a panic attack

Rewatchables Legend

2k voice acting legend

Dion Waiters and Tim Hardaway Jr going bucket for bucket in the rising stars game is legendary

Kobe Wade

I still watch from time to time when he and Tim Hardaway JR went crazy at an allstar event. Thought Dion would be something, I really did.

Men lie women lie buckets dnt

OKC legend.

My current favorite is that the Wizards are still (last I checked) carrying Ian Mahmini’s cap hold.

I guess as some sort of “don’t ever do this again” reminder?

A red stamp, preferably

2015

Remain calm. It is still 2026. You have not time travelled.

Why is no one else drop dropped at Wanye Ellington

I’ve always wondered if he regretted sitting out the Bubble.

Lakers obviously did fine.

John Salley last played in 2000. He’s the 2nd-longest cap hold next to Roshown McLeod, who last played in 2001 and was renounced by the Celtics in 2016. But McLeod never played for the Celtics. John Salley did play for the Lakers.

This isn’t even true, the Lakers having his rights doesn’t mean they have the right to sign them first. Carmelo could unretire and sign with any team he wants. What rights allow the Lakers to do is go over the salary cap to sign a player without needing an exception. So if Carmelo had come out of retirement last season, the Lakers could have signed him to a large contract even though they were over the cap, because they held his rights. If D Wade had come out of retirement, the Lakers only would have been able to offer him a minimum contract because they didn’t have his right.

Is this because they retired before there contract was up? So technically if they came back, they’d be under contract with the Lakers? Wouldn’t those cap holds just roll over every year? What’s the point of keeping all this on the books? Assuming it’s not a huge amount but still

What about Kurt Rambis and Smush Parker?

VP of Player Development apparently.

And Jared Dudley is an assistant coach (or was since Kidd got fired)

Teams will keep rights to players on their books until they have a good reason to renounce them. We haven’t been a cap space team since the year LeBron joined so there was never a reason to actually renounce them.

I think that’s more at the teams discretion, but the team and the retiring player may come to an agreement. They negotiate a buyout to help lessen the cap hit they’ll have since they’ll still be on the books. Buyout a longer term contract which helps with cap space since you’re giving less guaranteed money over longer time, and the player gets some money post retirement.

I probably got that wrong through, maybe it isn’t a buyout at all, it’s just a restructure.

Woohoo! Now he’s finally free!

What a travesty.

Not sure if troll, but he was there in 21-22 season

ahh man you forgot his last season were he accepted he was bench player? dude was decent in the role avg like 13 a game.

Thankfully, he can now return to play in the NBA as an unrestricted free agent!

Mf out here with rights on the lakers while coaching the Heat summer league.

2022 lakers actually fielded a Russ/IT/Wayne Ellington/Lebron/DeAndre Jordan lineup. Jigsaw Pelinka’s greatest death trap

“I thought we threw this Dion Walters away at least a decade ago!”