re: 2022-23 Lakers Thread

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Westbrook as an expiring is still valuable. Obviously, 50mil is a lot of salary to match. But not impossible

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There is very little value to a single expiring contract that large. It requires a potential trade partner to send out so much salary, that it will likely include players that team wants to keep, so it has no use for salary dumping. The Lakers also have very limited assets that they can use to entice another team to give them useful players for an expiring contract.

My Pels-fan obsession with the Lakers makes it glorious to watch. The fact that their failures directly benefit the Pelicans for the next 3-4 years is the cherry on top.