Last offseason, lakers management signed Jordan Jr. as an interior substitute with a base salary of $2.6 million a year. Apparently, it didn't take long for the signing to prove to be a failure, with Jordan Jr. having no role to play on the pitch and completely semi-retiring.
Not just Jordan Jr., but many of the Lakers' operations last offseason proved to be failures in later games. Originally, they still had a trade deadline to correct the error, but as we all know, the Lakers trading management did nothing.
They retained Tucker, retained Nunn, who signed a middle-class contract last year and has not yet played, and retained Jordan Jr., like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, which also makes the gap between the Lakers management and James bigger and bigger.
Just yesterday, they did another stupid thing. After the All-Star Game, Jordan Jr. played again after many games, and after sending an outrageous passing mistake, the Lakers finally decided to cut Jordan Jr., a game more like the Lakers giving Jordan Jr. the last chance to appear.
The Lakers cut Jordan Jr. and signed DJ Augustine, as well as Wien Gabriel on a two-way contract. These two people have limited help to the Lakers, which may be a huge reinforcement in the eyes of management.
The cost of this comeback of the Lakers is not small, and directly cutting Jordan Jr. means that they also need to pay Jordan Jr.'s salary for the rest of the season. Jordan Jr.'s $2.6 million salary would increase the Lakers' luxury tax by about $5 million.
And the Lakers this season's luxury tax has been as high as 46 million US dollars or so, they can send cash + jordan jr. way or the second round pick + little Jordan way to send Jordan away on the closing date of the transaction, the Thunder are definitely willing to do this kind of business, they still have more than 30 million salary space.
But the Lakers' management doesn't seem to realize that they can save so much money, the smallest possibility is that they think Jordan Jr. can still be saved, the smallest may be, they don't think that there is still a team that will preemptively claim Little Jordan, right?
The 76ers are currently interested in Jordan Jr., and if the 76ers directly adopt Jordan Jr., it will save the Lakers $4.2 million in luxury taxes, but it will also add $2.3 million to their luxury taxes.
If the 76ers wait until Jordan Jr.'s clarification period has expired before signing him, they could save $2.3 million. Should the Lakers management think that Jordan Jr. will have someone cut off his beard? No, no, no.
At a time when the management of other teams is looking for ways to save the boss money, money and luxury taxes. The Lakers management said that we were just working part-time, anyway, we didn't pay the luxury tax, 5 million.
With such management, what else can you expect from the Lakers?