For anyone wondering about the fact that this clears cap room for LA in free agency next summer, it's a lot. But ...
Right now, it's about 32.5M. It's enough for LA to add a couple good players to a bare roster of Lebron, AD, and misc. That's below the lowest max salary of 33M (and the prior team for those those lower-max guys typically have matching rights, so if they're any good they can't be grabbed in free agency). For more veteran players with the bigger max, LA has nowhere close to the 40M for the middle max or 47M for upper max.
If they only have Lebron & AD, and get rid of ALL other salary, it gets them to about 34.5 of cap room. Still buys a couple of good players, but not a max on the non-restricted FAs where it matters. Not much diff.
If LA wanted to sign Kyrie, he wants his max of 47M, so he'd have to take a HUGE haircut to sign with LA.
Right now, it's about 32.5M. It's enough for LA to add a couple good players to a bare roster of Lebron, AD, and misc. That's below the lowest max salary of 33M (and the prior team for those those lower-max guys typically have matching rights, so if they're any good they can't be grabbed in free agency). For more veteran players with the bigger max, LA has nowhere close to the 40M for the middle max or 47M for upper max.
If they only have Lebron & AD, and get rid of ALL other salary, it gets them to about 34.5 of cap room. Still buys a couple of good players, but not a max on the non-restricted FAs where it matters. Not much diff.
If LA wanted to sign Kyrie, he wants his max of 47M, so he'd have to take a HUGE haircut to sign with LA.