The Lakers signed Marc Gasol with a two-year contract. This signing made the league exclaimed that "the Lakers will increase their hopes of defending the title." So, what help can the joining of Gasol bring to the Lakers? From the perspective of salary space, what is the operating level of the Lakers in this signing?
Although Gasol Jr. is too old, he is close to 36 years old, but his height and size are placed there. Lakers team reporter Bill Oram explained: "JaVale McGee and Dwight Howard After the two centers that protected the basket left, Anthony Davis lacked a rim-protecting center. Gasol rarely made mistakes. He could play against a large center like Jokic. Gasol Jr. in the new season And Harrell can support the Lakers in the fifth position."
As he gets older, Gasol's defensive pace has long been slower than in the past, but his basketball IQ is still there. Raptors correspondent Eric K. Lean believes that the signing of the Lakers is a great value. He said: "Pau Gasol is a defensive genius. No one can deploy a defense like Pau Gasol. His footwork speed can't prevent the outside line, but he can use his brain. To make up for his speed disadvantage. He is an excellent low-post defender. Offensive Gasol’s shooting declined last season. He hesitated when he shot, but he is the best passing ability in LeBron James’ career. One of the strong players." The
data website gives Gasol a clear score for each trait. Gasol’s offensive influence is now C-level, but his offensive influence is A-level. Although Gasol has experienced a small shooting year last season and his shooting percentage has declined, the three-point rating given by the data website is still A-, his basket protection ability is A, his organizational talent and passing create opportunities The lowest quality is also A-level. After
signed Harrell with a full middle class exception and signed Matthews with a biennial exception, the Lakers have triggered a hard salary cap. They are equivalent to dancing in shackles, because their operations must not allow the total salary to exceed 138.9 million US dollars. Hard salary cap. In order to give Gasol a contract with an annual salary of $2.65 million, the Lakers made a deal. They sent McGee with an annual salary of $4.2 million and a second-round signing. The Cavaliers exchanged for Jordan Bell and a non-guaranteed contract. McKinney. The
deal not only created conditions for the Lakers to sign Gasol, but also laid the groundwork for the Lakers' midterms. Because both McKinney and Bell are non-guaranteed contracts, the Lakers need to set one of their contracts to a guaranteed amount of $637,204, and the other for full protection, so they can lay off one of the two in the middle of the season to sign and be bought by other teams. Broken player. Alternatively, the Lakers can lay off the player with a smaller contract guarantee amount and pay in installments so that the Lakers can sign another player for a minimum price of $1.6 million. The key to
now is that the Lakers should be able to renew Markieff Morris at a price that is 20% higher than the base salary, and they can give Morris a $2.8 million contract to keep him.
After all these operations, the Lakers still have a vacant position, which is still $3.7 million short of the hard salary cap, and they can also sign another guard with a 1+1 contract. If they lay off Bale, they will also make room, but they may not be able to sign another player with a 1+1 basic salary contract. They don't have enough space.
In the end, the price for the Lakers to get Gasol was to send McGee and a second-round pick, and in exchange for two players at the end of the bench that they didn't need. However, the Lakers have enough flexibility to sign back Morris and another guard, and they still have enough room in the middle of the season to sign a player who was bought out.
