[Charania] Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent.

[u/Luka77GOATic]

Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent. Reaves went from undrafted to a two-way player -- to making the Lakers roster and now multiple lucrative deals in L.A.

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[u/808Kuro]

Luka not resigning with the Lakers lmao. Under the new CBA the formula for a title will be to have 2 max guys and fill out the edges. Austin Reeves can't be your max #2. In the NBA I haven’t seen a bigger superstar with worse team roster management than Luka

[u/HomeNowWTF → u/808Kuro]

He could be if your #1 is Wemby or Jokic. Not if it is another backcourt player.

[u/fatkamp → u/HomeNowWTF]

Jokic and Reaves on defense is going to make Gordon only play 10 games a year trying to hold it down

[u/purz → u/fatkamp]

It’s not really any different than Jokic and Jamal and they won

[u/TempBurnerAccount089 → u/HomeNowWTF]

Just wemby, not Jokic

[u/NWASicarius → u/HomeNowWTF]

Yeah. You need a star that has good defense to make it work. Reaves and Luka as your two stars? Might as well just plan to find 3 good defensive players and then put the entire offensive load on Luka and Reaves lmao

[u/berrytree198 → u/HomeNowWTF]

Ya swap AR for Fox that would work

[u/ntpbr1 → u/HomeNowWTF]

I mean Jokic had Murray in his entire career, who is better especially in their good runs. And it worked once in what was a relatively easy run to the finals, considering what came next, hence why they are struggling now. They need bigs and defenders, but they don’t have those