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D'Angelo Russell has enjoyed his return to the Brooklyn Nets. Russell is said to be relishing having the ball in his hands again, while having a leadership role with a young team. The veteran guard reportedly would like to stay in Brooklyn after this season.

Russell was acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers in part because he's on an expiring contract. The Nets project to have a league-high $50-plus million in cap space this offseason. In the past, Sean Marks has used cap space to play in restricted free agency.

Russell is now hoping to stay with the Nets on a new contract. If Brooklyn were to re-sign Russell to a short-term deal, that could signal how they plan to let this offseason play out, by largely rolling over their cap space to the summer of 2026.

Via Brian Lewis/New York Post

he'll be lucky to even be in the NBA after he challenged Lebron in practice about his lack of defense lol, ask dennis schroder how that went for him.. its a long list of players who went againist lebron who were out of the league after playing with him

NBA4Lyfe wrote:he'll be lucky to even be in the NBA after he challenged Lebron in practice about his lack of defense lol, ask dennis schroder how that went for him.. its a long list of players who went againist lebron who were out of the league after playing with him

Dennis underperformed went to other teams and underperformed then was ok on a mostly bad team and then played terrible with Steph too. So to sum up Dennis was in the league for years after leaving the lakers and he also went back to the lakers after leaving at one point.. so I dunno what this is about. Lakers made a choice not to use the mid level on Dennis and another team did..

Vegeta10176 wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:he'll be lucky to even be in the NBA after he challenged Lebron in practice about his lack of defense lol, ask dennis schroder how that went for him.. its a long list of players who went againist lebron who were out of the league after playing with him

Dennis underperformed went to other teams and underperformed then was ok on a mostly bad team and then played terrible with Steph too. So to sum up Dennis was in the league for years after leaving the lakers and he also went back to the lakers after leaving at one point.. so I dunno what this is about. Lakers made a choice not to use the mid level on Dennis and another team did..

Didnt Dennis turn down an 80M deal to bet on himself... and ended up never making close to that? pretty sure thats Dennis' bad

Can you blame the guy? He's probably tired of getting kicked around the league so much.

PHXCavaliers wrote:

Vegeta10176 wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:he'll be lucky to even be in the NBA after he challenged Lebron in practice about his lack of defense lol, ask dennis schroder how that went for him.. its a long list of players who went againist lebron who were out of the league after playing with him

Dennis underperformed went to other teams and underperformed then was ok on a mostly bad team and then played terrible with Steph too. So to sum up Dennis was in the league for years after leaving the lakers and he also went back to the lakers after leaving at one point.. so I dunno what this is about. Lakers made a choice not to use the mid level on Dennis and another team did..

Didnt Dennis turn down an 80M deal to bet on himself... and ended up never making close to that? pretty sure thats Dennis' bad

That also happened on his first stint with the lakers.. That was a crazy amount to turn down and he didn't perform well so I believe he got like a veteran minimum with the celtics after that or it could of been a partial mid level exception like 5mil something along those lines.. Fact is Dennis cost himself nothing to do with LeBron.. Or Steph for that matter..

Vegeta10176 wrote:

PHXCavaliers wrote:

Vegeta10176 wrote:
Dennis underperformed went to other teams and underperformed then was ok on a mostly bad team and then played terrible with Steph too. So to sum up Dennis was in the league for years after leaving the lakers and he also went back to the lakers after leaving at one point.. so I dunno what this is about. Lakers made a choice not to use the mid level on Dennis and another team did..

Didnt Dennis turn down an 80M deal to bet on himself... and ended up never making close to that? pretty sure thats Dennis' bad

That also happened on his first stint with the lakers.. That was a crazy amount to turn down and he didn't perform well so I believe he got like a veteran minimum with the celtics after that or it could of been a partial mid level exception like 5mil something along those lines.. Fact is Dennis cost himself nothing to do with LeBron.. Or Steph for that matter..

I look at it as the 80 million wasnt worth the future scapegoating by the espn/klutch media, also doesnt help that the taxes in california are brutal> Which is why im not so sure luka will stay in los angeles long term, especially if lebron is on the team this summer.


the coach bobby hurley turned down MONSTER money just to say no to the lakers this past offszn, after people and coaches convinced him that the lakers job is not a hot commodity right now as long as lebron is there

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

Vegeta10176 wrote:

PHXCavaliers wrote:
Didnt Dennis turn down an 80M deal to bet on himself... and ended up never making close to that? pretty sure thats Dennis' bad

That also happened on his first stint with the lakers.. That was a crazy amount to turn down and he didn't perform well so I believe he got like a veteran minimum with the celtics after that or it could of been a partial mid level exception like 5mil something along those lines.. Fact is Dennis cost himself nothing to do with LeBron.. Or Steph for that matter..

I look at it as the 80 million wasnt worth the future scapegoating by the espn/klutch media, also doesnt help that the taxes in california are brutal> Which is why im not so sure luka will stay in los angeles long term, especially if lebron is on the team this summer.


the coach bobby hurley turned down MONSTER money just to say no to the lakers this past offszn, after people and coaches convinced him that the lakers job is not a hot commodity right now as long as lebron is there

wait, you actually believe all that? jesus man

xb3at band1tx wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

Vegeta10176 wrote:

That also happened on his first stint with the lakers.. That was a crazy amount to turn down and he didn't perform well so I believe he got like a veteran minimum with the celtics after that or it could of been a partial mid level exception like 5mil something along those lines.. Fact is Dennis cost himself nothing to do with LeBron.. Or Steph for that matter..

I look at it as the 80 million wasnt worth the future scapegoating by the espn/klutch media, also doesnt help that the taxes in california are brutal> Which is why im not so sure luka will stay in los angeles long term, especially if lebron is on the team this summer.


the coach bobby hurley turned down MONSTER money just to say no to the lakers this past offszn, after people and coaches convinced him that the lakers job is not a hot commodity right now as long as lebron is there

wait, you actually believe all that? jesus man

uhh yess

gabe vincent in particular is hating the Lebron expiernce, even milked an injury last szn just so the lakers could find a trade partner for him. lol Going from "heat culture" to the lebron expiernce is like learning to play basketball over again

D'Angelo wants to stay with any team that will have him/pay him

ziggymon123 wrote:D'Angelo wants to stay with any team that will have him/pay him

Pretty much. Pay-cut incoming.

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

xb3at band1tx wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

I look at it as the 80 million wasnt worth the future scapegoating by the espn/klutch media, also doesnt help that the taxes in california are brutal> Which is why im not so sure luka will stay in los angeles long term, especially if lebron is on the team this summer.


the coach bobby hurley turned down MONSTER money just to say no to the lakers this past offszn, after people and coaches convinced him that the lakers job is not a hot commodity right now as long as lebron is there

wait, you actually believe all that? jesus man

uhh yess

gabe vincent in particular is hating the Lebron expiernce, even milked an injury last szn just so the lakers could find a trade partner for him. lol Going from "heat culture" to the lebron expiernce is like learning to play basketball over again

Your weird obsession with LeBron is...well, weird. Get some help man.

I'm not entirely convinced that Russell will be in the NBA after his contract expires.

TheCage4 wrote:I'm not entirely convinced that Russell will be in the NBA after his contract expires.

That's extreme..Orlando, Miami, Phoenix just to name a few could use him right now and next year.