(05-22-2022, 02:28 PM)F Gump Wrote: LAL's likely inability to get some team to blithely waste 47M cash by swallowing RW into their cap room.
Again, it is not 47 mil they need to swallow...
Unprotected pick is a possibility of a superstar. Who knows how good will Lakers be in 2027. By the look of it, not very good.
Some examples of teams eating big money:
OKC got #16 pick to unload 73 mil of Kemba and Boston ate 53 mil of Horford (who turned out to be a very good player).
Sixers paid lightly protected 2025 pick in 2019 (equals 2027 pick this year) to get rid of 70 mil of Horford contract in exchange for less than 15 mil of Green. That is 55 mil for a (lightly) protected far future pick.
The Westbrook to OKC idea is coming from expirienced writer and it doesn't even take away OKC cap room, as they don't have it next season anyway (but they have it now!).