05-22-2022, 02:14 PM
"LAL, assuming they are keeping both LBJ and AD, has no way in the world to have max cap room for ZL, and there's really no way for them to to create it."
"Even that is not impossible."
Bullshit.
As I said and you try to disparage, LAL cannot get cap room to offer a max contract for Lavine (which would start at 36.6M), so long as they have LBJ and AD on the roster. All your this-and-that still doesn't erase the math that says FACTUALLY - if they literally cleared out the entire roster other than those two - they won't have enough cap room.
As if they could even clear out the entire roster other than those two.
The ONLY way they can offer a max deal to Lavine would require the help of CHI. But without that leverage of a competitor being able to get enough cap room, teams that want to keep their player and who are willing to pay him what he's asking don't tend to work against themselves. (The examples of both Lowry and Butler going to MIA followed that pattern, as their prior teams had decided they had higher priorities than paying what it would take to keep their guy, so didn't care if he left.)
"Even that is not impossible."
Bullshit.
As I said and you try to disparage, LAL cannot get cap room to offer a max contract for Lavine (which would start at 36.6M), so long as they have LBJ and AD on the roster. All your this-and-that still doesn't erase the math that says FACTUALLY - if they literally cleared out the entire roster other than those two - they won't have enough cap room.
As if they could even clear out the entire roster other than those two.
The ONLY way they can offer a max deal to Lavine would require the help of CHI. But without that leverage of a competitor being able to get enough cap room, teams that want to keep their player and who are willing to pay him what he's asking don't tend to work against themselves. (The examples of both Lowry and Butler going to MIA followed that pattern, as their prior teams had decided they had higher priorities than paying what it would take to keep their guy, so didn't care if he left.)