Beijing time on November 21, the Los Angeles Lakers came heavy news, they have completed a key signing, but this signing has a major hidden danger for the Lakers. As soon as the free signing market opened, the Lakers directly tapped the ace starting Matthews of the Bucks last season and quickly reached a 3.6 million contract with him. The contract of
was directly won by the Lakers in a biennial special case and did not touch their middle class. The Lakers still retained their most valuable assets and kept pursuing the next superstars, such as Ibaka or Bogda. Norwich et al. From this perspective, the Lakers did not carry out the operation of the muscles and bones, they won an absolute starter, and also the spare tire for Danny Green to leave the team, which is indeed a very good operation.
Matthews played in the Bucks last season, which is definitely powerful. He also scored 10 three-pointers in a single game. But the Lakers' operation seems to be very good, but in fact there are major hidden problems. That is, with the joining of Matthews, the Lakers will no longer be able to pay the luxury tax this season. Even if they want to pay 50 million or even 100 million in luxury tax, it is absolutely impossible. The rules of the league will not allow them to pay tax, because They have triggered a hard salary cap. From this perspective, then this is not good news. The so-called hard salary cap of
means that your salary must be limited to this amount this season, and must not exceed this amount. You are not allowed to pay luxury tax, even if you want to pay taxes and spend more money. The most typical example is the Golden State Warriors last season. After they successfully took Russell to trigger the hard salary cap, they had to trade Livingston and Iguodala, and keep their salary below 138 million. , The Lakers are doing the same now.
They can only control their salary below 138 million. Look at the Golden State Warriors and other teams next to them to pay taxes. The Warriors are now paying 130 million in luxury tax alone. What about the Lakers? Even if they want to pay so much tax, the league will not allow it. This is a major limitation of the Lakers' subsequent operations. In this case, even if the Lakers have the bird rights of the players, they cannot renew Kuzma and others with high pay in advance, let alone retain Rondo.
The space equivalent to the Lakers has been completely locked up. The possibility of continuing to renew the contract with Kuzma is 0, and after renewing the contract with the thick eyebrow, you have to sign Popper, and there is no What space is there. Subsequent signings by the Lakers can only give them a basic salary, and if only the basic salary is given, it is unlikely that people including Morris will come back, and Howard of Warcraft will probably not come back again, so this is a big part of the Lakers operation. The question is, the Lakers also gave up a lot for the Green substitute for Matthews.
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