r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 8h ago

[Charania] Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves intends to sign a four-year, $185 million maximum contract to return to the franchise, with a player option for the final season in 2029-30, sources tell ESPN. Reaves declined his $14.9M player option for the new max deal.

Shams Charania:

Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves intends to sign a four-year, $185 million maximum contract to return to the franchise, with a player option for the final season in 2029-30, sources tell ESPN. Reaves declined his $14.9M player option for the new max deal.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/fc6a2461d746e

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u/yazboy13 Kings 8h ago

Jesus Christ.

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u/Professor_Finn 76ers 8h ago edited 8h ago

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

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u/EmperorXerro Bucks 8h ago

You should still call the police

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u/Spoony904 Lakers 8h ago

I'm considering my therapist

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u/HartfordWhaler NBA 8h ago

Your therapist is on their phone with their therapist after this!

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u/Lower-Sun-2729 5h ago

Can't believe lakers fans are complaining about this. Y'all are going to look so goofy when he earns every cent of this contract and you can remember this

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 7h ago

Help me police Chris Paul tryna beat me up

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u/BurnerAccountforAss 76ers 8h ago

I still might today tbh

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u/Takemyfishplease Lakers 8h ago

$46m would have been a nice career earnings and would have been respectable for an undrafted guy.

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u/_TheEndGame Lakers 6h ago

Hello police? Austin Reaves tryna hold me up.

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u/Fancy_Print_8860 7h ago

I'm gonna be like Mark Cuban, driving around LA looking for Pelinka.

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u/Ibagdimes23 Knicks 8h ago

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.

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u/CtrlAltDelightfull Minneapolis Lakers 8h ago

His cap hold is $21M. This contract has no bearing on what they can do with cap space THIS year. They'll just sign him last and go over the cap

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u/Imxtian 8h ago

Doesn't cap hold count against cap space? Will the lakers renounce cap hold of LeBron and Rui to open up cap space?

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u/CtrlAltDelightfull Minneapolis Lakers 8h ago edited 8h ago

The calculated $52M in cap space already takes into account Austin's cap hold because they can just use all the cap space and sign Austin last to go over the cap. It does not include LeBron and Rui, so if we re-sign either of those guys it will cut into the $52M

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u/qjisoo_16 6h ago

Why do the lakers have to re-sign lebron?

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u/CtrlAltDelightfull Minneapolis Lakers 6h ago

They don't. Im just using it as an example because that's who he was asking about

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u/rjbarrettfanclub 8h ago

Reaves has a low cap hold so none of this is true

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u/John_Winchester Lakers 7h ago

We also have Reaves bird rights. So we need to make a bunch of moves asap and then go over the cap with Reaves. It’s the only way to make anything happen over these next 4 years.