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2642680, Just looking at our cap space next year...
Posted by Ryan M, Thu Feb-08-18 04:42 PM
We've got:

Deng - 18
Lonzo - 7
Ingram - 5.7
Ennis - 1.6
Kuzma - 1.6
Hart - 1.6
Zubac - 1.5
Bryant - 1.3

And that's it. So we're looking at like 40ish under contract next year, with a projected cap of 109 mil. I'm not entirely sure how Randle's cap hold works, nor what offers he's going to get, but if we stretched Deng at 7/per, that number then jumps up to 78 million in cap space with Lonzo, Ingram, and Kuzma as cost controlled assets for the next 2 years.

There's almost no way that IT and Frye REALLY help the Lakers this year but my guess is that Luke and co saw what they need to out of the young core, and we're projected to win around 30-35 games, which is (sadly) an improvement going back to 2012, which is truly insane. We have the Cavs 1st, along with two 2nd round picks.

I have no clue if Paul George is actually going to sign here, but the financials make a lot of sense. Now to hope one of these dudes is a superstar.