Congratulations to Stanley Johnson and the Lakers for officially signing a two-year contract!
The contract is a team option for the 2022-23 season, and Johnson will receive a salary of $888616 for the rest of the season, while the team option for next season is $2351521, and the total value of this two-year contract is $3.24 million.
Stanley Brothers should have been called a few earlier, right?
In the first round of 2015, the 8th place was selected by the Pistons, and then wandered over the Pelicans, Raptors, bulls, and this year simply came to Los Angeles, where the exposure was full, to test the waters and make a final attempt to stay in the NBA.
It is indeed not easy, this million dollar contract is Stein with three ten-day short contracts to fight back, in these thirty days, he showed enough defensive focus and court appeal, is the Lakers in addition to the old Zhan, thick eyebrows can be changed in the few inside players.
Stanley played in 14 games for the Lakers this season, averaging 6.4 points, 2.6 boards, 1.3 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.4 blocks in 21.2 minutes per game;
As a dynamic, well-defended, can eat pie forward player, his presence also makes the pressure on the inside of the old Zhan suddenly reduced, if you can practice a stable outside projection, then the Lakers' contract is definitely worth the money.
At this point, the Lakers have finally determined the team's last quota, and Stanley is willing to accept a one-year team option, which also reserves some flexibility for the Lakers to trade this summer, and the Lakers are currently facing a luxury tax of $43.7 million, which is still in the case of the transaction going to Long's guidance;
By the 2022-23 season, the Lakers had seven players on contract and a total salary of $149 million.
We mentioned before that Wei Shao's plan for Wall was really taken care of by the Lakers, and finally after weighing the pros and cons, it was decided not to hand over the first round of the draft pick in 2027, which allowed Wei Shao to continue to play this season as a Lakers player.
Of course, there is also a side here, according to the reporter, the Lakers through the perspective of team stability do not intend to trade Wei Shao, after all, what they promised, with tears to finish.
At the beginning, the team was ready to use the salary space with Kuzma, Harrell, Pop and the No. 22 sign in exchange for Hield or DeRozan, but Wei Shao took the initiative to ask for help, and the old Zhan and the thick eyebrows also tried to exclude the public opinion, and finally the Lakers packaged the above resources in exchange for Wei Shao;
Sending it away in the middle of the season now is also prematurely acknowledging the misery of the failure of this deal, which is not a good thing for the whole team, in other words: make it up, you can get away with it.
It has always been an unwritten rule to involve the team's leading stars in team building or trading;
For example, the digital people will ask Embiid for Simmons' opinion, and the lone ranger will be busy introducing good interior lines for Doncic, and old Zhan has also played a role in the recruitment of thick eyebrows, but this time, it can indeed be written as a negative textbook in the textbook...