Salary Cap Situation
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Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
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What does the Lakers salary cap sheet look like next season? What about the year after that? How does LeBron's player option on his contract this summer impact the Lakers financial flexibility? Both Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves are eligible to extend their contract, how should the Lakers approach both? Pete and Darius answer these questions and more as they continue their evaluation of the Lakers as the offseason begins.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. |
| 0:23.7 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:28.4 | And today we continue sort of, we're laying the groundwork for what we all want to know is |
| 0:33.1 | what moves are the Lakers going to make to build around Luka, to build next year's team and beyond? |
| 0:39.3 | And so today, as part of that, we're going to take a look at the Lakers' salary cap situation, |
| 0:44.6 | both this season and next season. |
| 0:46.7 | And D, I think it tells kind of two different stories. |
| 0:49.5 | Right now, the Lakers, a lot is going to be dependent upon LeBron's opt-in, which is the place I'd love for us to start. But also next summer, a lot of things, the way that things are set up is only Vando is on the books. And I think Brony has a partial guarantee. But next summer is an opportunity for the Lakers to have kind of a hard reset of the roster. And there are a lot of options in between. And so that's sort of the thing that stands out to me, D, is I look at the Lakers from a salary cap situation standpoint is maybe not as much this summer, but more broadly speaking, I think the team has a lot of optionality. You're way better at this stuff than I am. So what are your thoughts about What does the first place your mind go to when you talk about the Lakers cap situation? |
| 1:32.0 | I think it's a smart thing and important to look at this over a two-year idea, kind of the way that you laid it out as well. |
| 1:40.7 | The Lakers have a bunch of contracts that will come off the books next summer. |
| 1:46.0 | They've got important contract decisions with their three best players. |
| 1:50.5 | One of those is held by the player. |
| 1:52.5 | LeBron has a player option. |
| 1:54.5 | And both Austin and Luca are extension eligible. |
| 1:59.0 | And so when you talk about there's only a couple of players |
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