preface
Recently, according to Stein, league sources said the Lakers are focused on matching any offer from Reeves, even as there are teams offering nearly $100 million over four years.
Reeves will be a restricted free agent this summer, and $100 million in four years is the highest offer any other team can give!
Rivers has a contract of $2.49 million for 2 years, signed in 2021, $100,000 guaranteed for 2021-22, unguaranteed/team option for 2022-23, $0.93 million for 2021-22 and $1.56 million for 2022-23.
In the regular season this season, Austin Rivers averaged 28.8 minutes per game, scoring 13.0 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.5 turnovers, 0.5 steals and 0.3 blocks, shooting 52.9% from the field and 86.4% from the free-throw line. In the playoffs, Austin Rivers averaged 36.2 minutes per game, scoring 16.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 1.6 turnovers, 0.6 steals and 0.2 blocks, shooting 46.4% from the field and 89.5% from the free-throw line.
Can the Lakers keep Rivers?
Rivers this season played phenomenal performance, all said that the playoffs are the best game to test stars, Rivers playoff statistics do not fall but rise, proper is a big player, no wonder will be paid attention to by many teams in the offseason, after all, Rivers' cost performance is too high, bought as a mature bench is a very good choice.
The Lakers' total salary this season is $166.8 million, ranking 7th in the league, the team's salary space is -$43.19 million, and the luxury tax is as high as 35.86 million, which is also the seventh level in the league. Rivers is fourth from the bottom of the team's fifteen-man salary rankings.
But where a team makes an offer to Rivers, it is difficult for the Lakers to keep Rivers for more than 15 million or so, let alone a four-year offer of 100 million, Rivers' data is already quite good, see how much annual salary other team players get with this data? Combined with the child labor dividend this season, I think the Lakers will definitely match any offer.
Jordan Poole can get such a big contract this season at this level, averaging 20 points per game in the regular season, but because the playoffs Poole performance is too outrageous, he was cleared by the Warriors and sent to the Wizards. But Rivers' playoff performance is obvious to all, and there is no reason not to renew his contract.
summary
Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and it's clear that Rivers is well prepared for his big contract. Rivers will definitely not be the kind of contract player who starts to go into the swing after taking a big contract, no longer improving and completely changing a person, and his serious attitude towards basketball and the court guarantees him a bright future.
But the league is changing fast, will there be a team offer for Rivers? This is also a debatable question, the invisible next home is like a rocket, I don't know if it will try to inspire the Lakers, make a quote to see if the Lakers will match the offer. Warriors managers also said Poole would stay for four years before being sent to the Wizards the next day. After all, the league is still a game and business for team owners.
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Text | Lao Wang next door