Taking Stock
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
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Summary
It's free agency week and the Lakers have several decisions to make, starting with their own guys who can hit the market on June 30. Pete, Mike, and Darius begin their discussion focusing on Malik Monk's pending free agency. How much should the Lakers value him? Can he play a big role on a title contending team? What kind of contract should he get? Then later, the guys discuss Austin Reaves and Stanley Johnson's team options and how the Lakers should value them, plus whether any of the other vets from last year's team should return next season.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue R Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And it is Free Agency week. We are going to be previewing Free Agency, although delicately with Mike and I's situation. Every pod this week is going to be |
| 0:38.4 | about free agency to one extent or another. And we're going to start with our own free agents. |
| 0:43.7 | We just had Kendrick Nunn opt-in to his player option. Russell Westbrook has a player option |
| 0:50.1 | coming up on June 29th that he's probably going to opt into, we'd figure, but he has not done |
| 0:56.2 | so yet. |
| 0:57.3 | There are team options on Austin Reeves, Stanley Johnson, and Wenny and Gabriel, and probably |
| 1:02.8 | the Lakers' biggest unrestricted free agent from last season is Malik Monk. |
| 1:07.4 | Yovann Buha, who does wonderful work over at The Athletic, had an interview, an |
| 1:11.3 | exclusive with Malik that just came out today, as we're recording this Monday morning, in which Malik brings up the idea that he would take less money to stay with the Lakers. But that's always something, you know, Dee, that's, you know, we'll see. And a lot of things depend on a lot of things. But Malik is someone that we've kind of |
| 1:28.5 | talked around, but not a ton about. I'm of the mind that he's too small to compete in a high |
| 1:34.3 | level playoff series and be really good, but he was our best like plus minus guy from much |
| 1:40.3 | of the season. He was one of the highlights of last season, one of the few things where |
| 1:45.0 | he exceeded expectations. So let's talk about Malik a bit. Where do you stand on kind of the |
| 1:50.7 | idea of bringing him back, what that would look like, kind of where your threshold is of I |
| 1:56.9 | would bring him back at this, but not at that. So I think you're going to hear this discussion a lot from various, however many podcasts |
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