Austin Reaves, Lakers Agree To Four-Year, $185M Deal

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 3:30 pm

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fuller4379 · Post #2 » by **fuller4379** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 3:42 pm

That is an overpay. :lol:

JKiddy · Post #3 » by **JKiddy** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:14 pm

Lakers will not enjoy this team. Bookmark this and come back in 2029. Thank me again then.

beefman · Post #4 » by **beefman** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:21 pm

fuller4379 wrote:That is an overpay.

lakers got tons of money. who gives a ****

beefman · Post #5 » by **beefman** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:21 pm

JKiddy wrote:Lakers will not enjoy this team. Bookmark this and come back in 2029. Thank me again then.

thank you for stating the obvious? no thanks lol

Vegeta10176 · Post #6 » by **Vegeta10176** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:29 pm

beefman wrote:
fuller4379 wrote:That is an overpay.

lakers got tons of money. who gives a ****

And thats fine if a salary cap didnt exist

Vegeta10176 · Post #7 » by **Vegeta10176** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:30 pm

Lakers are the worst organization they didnt even get a discount from what others could offer and he got a player option insane

Vegeta10176 · Post #8 » by **Vegeta10176** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:31 pm

JKiddy wrote:Lakers will not enjoy this team. Bookmark this and come back in 2029. Thank me again then.

Already agree now this is dumb

pushfloater · Post #9 » by **pushfloater** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:43 pm

Who else was willing to offer close to this?

beefymajesto · Post #10 » by **beefymajesto** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 5:07 pm

Is this guys defense phenomenonal or something? I dont really understand the value, especially doesn't seem like a good pairing with doncic. Must be something im missing for this kind of pay day.

ontnut · Post #11 » by **ontnut** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 5:32 pm

OOF. That's a potential cap killing contract.

JKiddy · Post #12 » by **JKiddy** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 6:32 pm

Even if the Lakers trade LeBron to CLE for Allen, this still is not an intelligent move.

Alex_84 · Post #13 » by **Alex_84** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:42 pm

If not for Lakers, other teams would offer him this or more.

Again some of you with the same old "overpaid" nonsense. The same shyt happened with Trae. Bunch of people laughed at him declining PO...and then what happened?

Good players will be offered BANK.

MegaJ · Post #14 » by **MegaJ** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 10:39 pm

Knicks in 5

The Fake Show don’t matter no more.

Pickled Prunes · Post #15 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 11:58 pm

Vegeta10176 wrote:Lakers are the worst organization they didnt even get a discount from what others could offer and he got a player option insane

He took a discount on his last deal. I don't know why you expected him to take a discount on this one. Are other players taking discounts that I don't know about?

I agree that it was an overpay and that they will likely live with shame and regret, but the Lakers have no way of replacing him. They did what they had to do because someone was going to give them that $179m contract. if he continues to put up 24/5/6 he will be easy to trade if it comes to that.

Melwing · Post #16 » by **Melwing** » Yesterday 2:48 am

Pickled Prunes wrote:
Vegeta10176 wrote:Lakers are the worst organization they didnt even get a discount from what others could offer and he got a player option insane

He took a discount on his last deal. I don't know why you expected him to take a discount on this one. Are other players taking discounts that I don't know about?

I agree that it was an overpay and that they will likely live with shame and regret, but the Lakers have no way of replacing him. They did what they had to do because someone was going to give them that $179m contract. if he continues to put up 24/5/6 he will be easy to trade if it comes to that.

You have it backwards, his last contract was his max (as it says in the article), and this time is less than his max.

Vegeta10176 · Post #17 » by **Vegeta10176** » Yesterday 5:48 am

Alex_84 wrote:If not for Lakers, other teams would offer him this or more.

Again some of you with the same old "overpaid" nonsense. The same shyt happened with Trae. Bunch of people laughed at him declining PO...and then what happened?

Good players will be offered BANK.

They literally couldnt offer him more.. The most they could offer was 4 years 178million.. So not only did the lakers pay AR more they gave him a player option its insane and AR had said he wants to be there and wouldn't take an insane amount of money but guess what he did.. Jalen Brunson who is better took a discount that got a ring.. Austin will go without..

Vegeta10176 · Post #18 » by **Vegeta10176** » Yesterday 5:50 am

Pickled Prunes wrote:
Vegeta10176 wrote:Lakers are the worst organization they didnt even get a discount from what others could offer and he got a player option insane

He took a discount on his last deal. I don't know why you expected him to take a discount on this one. Are other players taking discounts that I don't know about?

I agree that it was an overpay and that they will likely live with shame and regret, but the Lakers have no way of replacing him. They did what they had to do because someone was going to give them that $179m contract. if he continues to put up 24/5/6 he will be easy to trade if it comes to that.

He took a discount on the last deal? No he took the max they could offer him.. If your ignorant you shouldn't comment
.

Vegeta10176 · Post #19 » by **Vegeta10176** » Yesterday 5:51 am

Melwing wrote:
Pickled Prunes wrote:
Vegeta10176 wrote:Lakers are the worst organization they didnt even get a discount from what others could offer and he got a player option insane

He took a discount on his last deal. I don't know why you expected him to take a discount on this one. Are other players taking discounts that I don't know about?

I agree that it was an overpay and that they will likely live with shame and regret, but the Lakers have no way of replacing him. They did what they had to do because someone was going to give them that $179m contract. if he continues to put up 24/5/6 he will be easy to trade if it comes to that.

You have it backwards, his last contract was his max (as it says in the article), and this time is less than his max.

Its only less than his max cause one less year but its also more than any other team can offer him its his max over 4 years.. The first deal also was his max.. They three in a player option to boot this a gross contract..

beefman · Post #20 » by **beefman** » Yesterday 4:03 pm

ontnut wrote:OOF. That's a potential cap killing contract.

meh i don't care. that's for the FO to worry about. i'll just focus on watching good players play