07-01-2026, 03:01 PM
Thinking about the short time frames of the LAL contracts and knowing that Luka starts next season (26/27) on year one of a 2+1(PO) contract...
His next Max is going to put him in the neighborhood of $70M/yr on average and the LALs would be committing ~$360M over 5 years. Probably more as I'm uncertain of some of the annual increases.
DAL was in a similar position a few years ago (exacerbated by Luka's ongoing physical problems) of having to designate a huge portion of their payroll to one player. They solved by trading him to LAL for a bag of beans.
Just wondering, if they don't appear to challenge for the championship, whether LAL gets similar cold feet and is hedging by preparing to rebuild in a post-Luka era through not carrying any albatross contracts? I mean, Luka's dealing with personal issues this summer and doesn't have the revenge motivation he had last summer, so who knows what next season holds for the LALs.. But they are only go as far as Luka takes them. If that's not far enough, do they move on?
His next Max is going to put him in the neighborhood of $70M/yr on average and the LALs would be committing ~$360M over 5 years. Probably more as I'm uncertain of some of the annual increases.
DAL was in a similar position a few years ago (exacerbated by Luka's ongoing physical problems) of having to designate a huge portion of their payroll to one player. They solved by trading him to LAL for a bag of beans.
Just wondering, if they don't appear to challenge for the championship, whether LAL gets similar cold feet and is hedging by preparing to rebuild in a post-Luka era through not carrying any albatross contracts? I mean, Luka's dealing with personal issues this summer and doesn't have the revenge motivation he had last summer, so who knows what next season holds for the LALs.. But they are only go as far as Luka takes them. If that's not far enough, do they move on?
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