Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[mvossman]

Dorian has slipped a little and isn’t worth $15 million. I expect he’d get something like the smaller exception with so few teams having salary flexibility. This must be for the Lakers to give him more years at
less money. LeBron’s decision to opt in doesn’t change his win now calculus unless his camp is pushing the Lakers to agree to a resign with more years but less money this season, and the Lakers refused.

Has he?  He is still a quality defender and had one of the better offensive seasons of his career (over 40% from 3).  I would argue he is still easily worth the full MLE.