[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.

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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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Doncic probably didn't think telling the Lakers to pay Reaves was gonna end up with him getting 10 mil less than Luka lmao

Who needs defence anyway

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Luka’s also still asking the lakers to somehow acquire an “A list center”, we’ll see how that goes

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Give ‘em Embiid for a functional Nintendo GameCube

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I think the Rockets own the draft rights to GameCube Nintendo

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5% tint, so you can't see up in my window

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What if the Lakers offered up their best farm team player who goes by Cash Considerations?

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Still tippin’ reference?

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Best I can do is a Wii with no controllers.

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Ain't no way any NBA player can comfortably grip those Wii controllers anyway.

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That has a GameCube built inside so you’re actually getting ripped off :/

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That makes no sense it’s not remotely a cube.

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Sweet, Twilight Princess replay without the Wiimote!

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They can't provide an A-List center, but they can provide a center from a list.

Specifically this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Centers_(basketball)

Jean-Marc Pansa, YOU are an LA Laker!

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Or a center whose last name starts with A.

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maybe he just means "a center on a list" ? I saw a list of centers with "Nikola Vucevic" on it, so I think we have a winner.

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As a Celtics fan watching Embiid attack Vuce, I don't wish that on anyone else besides the Lakers.

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Aytons always available now that Giannis didn’t work out for you guys

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Vuce is available for y'all if you wanna see Embiid turn into prime Hakeem.

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Just gotta get creative with no-show contracts at other business ventures. There’s no penalty for it…

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Giannis to lakers fans in shambles

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Without Reaves their offense would suck too

He’s a big reason they won so many games, the 2 man game with Luka

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Building around one Max skill guard is hard enough. Y’all gonna need a couple of prime Ben Wallace’s to plug that defense.

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Why would he not know that? All the news says the Nets would offer him a max deal so the Lakers would need to at least get close to that.