Free Agency, Day 1: The Lakers Make Four Good Signings, but Lose Alex Caruso for Nothing
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. |
| 0:10.0 | You are Lockdown Lakers. |
| 0:16.0 | You're Daily Los Angeles Lakers Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Tuesday, Brian Kemenetski here. |
| 0:35.0 | No Andy today. He's not here, but we should have him back tomorrow probably. |
| 0:42.0 | So you'll get all the analysis because it has been a crazy first day of free agency all over the map for the Lakers and Lakers fans. |
| 0:52.0 | A lot to break down with the guys they signed and a lot to talk about with the guy that they let go. |
| 0:58.0 | And both are really, really important. |
| 1:03.0 | So we'll do that over the course of the show, try to answer some of your questions as well about what happened on the first day of free agency. |
| 1:11.0 | What might be coming because some interesting names flew off the board today, but still some others that are there that could be potentially linked to the Lakers already are potentially linked to the Lakers. |
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| 1:36.0 | All right. So look, the good stuff. |
| 1:40.0 | I like all four of the signings that the Lakers made today. They all make sense. |
| 1:45.0 | We'll get to all of them Wayne Ellington, Kent Bayesmore, Dwight Howard Trevor Risa. |
| 1:52.0 | All of us as being reported now one year deals all I that would indicate for the minimum. |
| 2:00.0 | And so on that I got no problems. |
| 2:03.0 | So we're going to start there, but you got to keep in mind everything that we're going to talk about in this show until we get to that point is is also framed by losing Alex Caruso to Chicago. |
| 2:14.0 | And that was a deal that went down this afternoon 9 million a year essentially for Caruso to go join the bulls. |
| 2:21.0 | There are some details to be worked out. Maybe the Lakers get a trade exception back depending on how all this gets put together in the end, but ultimately it does look like right now at least that Alex Caruso is out the door for nothing. |
| 2:36.0 | Nothing comes back and the market meanwhile as a sign in trade to move Dennis Schroeder doesn't seem to be particularly robust either some some tough days to be Dennis Schroeder's agent as a lot of the potential places where he could have gone dried up real fast, including as Monday night came to a close news and reporting that Spencer Dinwitty might end up in Washington as part of a sign in trade. |
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