[Slovenian News] Luka Doncic to sign extension LA Lakers - 4years/$229 million

[Kent]

Rich single athletes do NOT leave the Lakers willingly.

Just be serious folks.

Dwight Howard would disagree.

I meant hetero ones

[anotherhomer]

it's shockingly low considering Shai will be making 71M/year and Luka, less than that

[ShootersShoot]

Would not be surprised to see the big stars start to take less in order to help build a stronger team around them. Imo that was the whole point of the way salary cap is currently structured. Is $200 million not enough and for only one contract at that? The thought of a future star balking at a 60 mill per year contract..disgusting.

[Memories]

it's shockingly low considering Shai will be making 71M/year and Luka, less than that

You can thank Nico for that.

Luka will go full rampage mode on the Mavs every time they meet.

[MavsDirk41]

Good for Luka well deserved

[Dr Aki]

I found it pleasantly surprised he didn't take a 2 year (+1 PO) to qualify for the 10 year vet max sooner.

This is a massive discount for the Lakers in years 3 and 4 of this extension (2028/29 and 2029/30)

[garrick]

Signing early is smart because what if he suffered a terrible injury before signing.

Now he'll be guaranteed his money.

But I wanted him to leave LA and go where he had a chance to win titles. As of now, LA isn't even close to contending and Bron is holding them hostage.

Bron won't be back after this season or at least not at a max level contract which will let the Lakers sign some decent free agents. It's LA so it's not like they won't have a shortage of players that want to sign with LA.

[druggas]

If true that sucks. Was gonna look forward to him hitting free agency. Lakers having another MVP tier guy literally every year basically is always going to be annoying. When the league was starting to get incredible parity momentum and small market momentum the Lakers make a random trade for a 25 year old superstar.

Whys it suck? A team gets the keep their star player. Any other team does this and congratulations rain down. Lakers do it and it sucks?

Because the Lakers are often the reason the other teams don't get to keep their star players.

I didn't know that the Lakers kidnapped other players.

[Optms]

Whys it suck? A team gets the keep their star player. Any other team does this and congratulations rain down. Lakers do it and it sucks?

Other teams don't get star players at 50% price.

Yeah, that's a very underrated aspect of this entire thing. People focus a lot on the trade itself but the big win for LAL is also his contract. With the Mavs his pay would be 70M+ and now it's significantly less, around 12-15M less. In theory, that's a solid money for an extra solid role player on the roster.

People acting like the Lakers stole Luka from someone. If you think anything sucks, its Dallas for being gifted Flagg.

Luka being a Laker is all Nico/Dallas. Mattet of fact, terrible FO's is why teams lose stars. So in gist, blame your teams.

[druggas]

It’s not even just the volume of titles but just the fact that every time the Lakers are facing a rebuild like most teams endure, they magically get a superstar somehow on some bull.

Why weren't you whining when the Clippers signed all the stars this year? And don't pretend that you're not a Clipper fan, we know better.

Let's not get carried away, the Clippers did not sign "all the stars " lol

Beal, yes, as he is a lower evel star quality player, okay, but that's just one.

How about Leonard and George?

[wegotthabeet]

Signing early is smart because what if he suffered a terrible injury before signing.

Now he'll be guaranteed his money.

But I wanted him to leave LA and go where he had a chance to win titles. As of now, LA isn't even close to contending and Bron is holding them hostage.

Next summer is the big off season, not this one. Bron will likely be retired by then. He is not getting in the way of anything. Even if he was not on the books for this summer, there were no stars anyway to go out and get. Plan is 2027. Jokic, Giannis, etc.

They can’t build around him without trying to sign a top 3 player? That’s two years away haha.

[TheGeneral99]

Was hoping he would dip LA, but they probably promised him some crazy endorsements.

[og15]

Why weren't you whining when the Clippers signed all the stars this year? And don't pretend that you're not a Clipper fan, we know better.

Let's not get carried away, the Clippers did not sign "all the stars " lol

Beal, yes, as he is a lower evel star quality player, okay, but that's just one.

How about Leonard and George?

I would suggest you read the post you made, lol

"when the Clippers signed all the stars this year?"

Clippers also traded for George that summer, but again, re-read what you said

[druggas]

Let's not get carried away, the Clippers did not sign "all the stars " lol

Beal, yes, as he is a lower evel star quality player, okay, but that's just one.

How about Leonard and George?

I would suggest you read the post you made, lol

"when the Clippers signed all the stars this year?"

Clippers also traded for George that summer, but again, re-read what you said

I know what I said. This is to anyone that says that the Lakers get all the stars.

[og15]

How about Leonard and George?

I would suggest you read the post you made, lol

"when the Clippers signed all the stars this year?"

Clippers also traded for George that summer, but again, re-read what you said

I know what I said. This is to anyone that says that the Lakers get all the stars.

Oh, so you're saying, what about that example instead, I don't know, you'll have to ask the original poster if he was mad at that.

I have no complaint about Luka extending, I just thought your rebuttal to the poster was quite off as you seem to now realize.

George was a trade, but Clippers have no similar history of consistently getting top level players, so I don't think you're going to get anyone to jump on that one. Of course with an ownership that actually cares about winning, isn't afraid to spend and proper front office, the Clippers have been leveraging that LA location advantage in recent years.

[OkcSinceSGA]

I would suggest you read the post you made, lol

"when the Clippers signed all the stars this year?"

Clippers also traded for George that summer, but again, re-read what you said

I know what I said. This is to anyone that says that the Lakers get all the stars.

Oh, so you're saying, what about that example instead, I don't know, you'll have to ask the original poster if he was mad at that.

I have no complaint about Luka extending, I just thought your rebuttal to the poster was quite off as you seem to now realize.

George was a trade, but Clippers have no similar history of consistently getting top level players, so I don't think you're going to get anyone to jump on that one. Of course with an ownership that actually cares about winning, isn't afraid to spend and proper front office, the Clippers have been leveraging that LA location advantage in recent years.

There are also levels to this. Clippers being in LA attract players... but it's nothing like the Lakers several decade run of just magically getting young or in prime superstars as their window closes like clock work. Via forced trades, free agency, backdoor recruiting. Like the Luka deal.. smells to high heaven (Clippers recruitment of Kawhi via Uncle Dennis is no different btw, it's just the Lakers sheer volume and decades of this that makes it stand out). In a league filled with high level (CIA tier) intel and agents who know everything... it's insane that the main reaction across the league was that they didn't even know it was possible to offer for Luka. Someone would have gotten wind of something.

[druggas]

I know what I said. This is to anyone that says that the Lakers get all the stars.

Oh, so you're saying, what about that example instead, I don't know, you'll have to ask the original poster if he was mad at that.

I have no complaint about Luka extending, I just thought your rebuttal to the poster was quite off as you seem to now realize.

George was a trade, but Clippers have no similar history of consistently getting top level players, so I don't think you're going to get anyone to jump on that one. Of course with an ownership that actually cares about winning, isn't afraid to spend and proper front office, the Clippers have been leveraging that LA location advantage in recent years.

There are also levels to this. Clippers being in LA attract players... but it's nothing like the Lakers several decade run of just magically getting young or in prime superstars as their window closes like clock work. Via forced trades, free agency, backdoor recruiting. Like the Luka deal.. smells to high heaven (Clippers recruitment of Kawhi via Uncle Dennis is no different btw, it's just the Lakers sheer volume and decades of this that makes it stand out). In a league filled with high level (CIA tier) intel and agents who know everything... it's insane that the main reaction across the league was that they didn't even know it was possible to offer for Luka. Someone would have gotten wind of something.

Where do the players factor into all this. Seems to me that they want to play for the Lakers. Who are you to deny them?

[Bobbymcgee]

Jokic to the Lakers confirmed.