It was revealed that the Lakers plan to renew Russell's contract: plan to keep 6 generals or use 12.3 million to recruit Brown
On June 29, Beijing time, the Lakers have officially offered Reeves and Hachimura, and will also implement Van Debiao's team options; According to Lakers reporter Jovan Buha, the Lakers plan to re-sign Russell, and they are expected to try to keep Schroder and Lonnie Walker, in other words, the Lakers plan to keep 6 people, and the Lakers also want to Nuggets win the championship Brown, who can sign him for $12.3 million a year.
All indications are that the Lakers are planning to renew the contracts of Reeves, Hachimura and Russell, and they will also try to renew the contracts of Schroder and Lonnie Walker.
Previously, the Lakers officially announced qualification offers for Hachimura (1 year $7.74 million) and Reeves (1 year 2.19 million US dollars), both of which became restricted free agents, the Lakers can match other teams to their offers, and the Lakers are more willing to match Reeves with a 4-year $100 million maximum salary contract.
The Lakers will execute Vanderbilt's $4.7 million team option for the new season.
Jovan Buka reported that the Lakers plan to renew Russell's contract and want to keep Schroder and Walker; During the 22-23 season, the Lakers brought in Russell before the trade deadline, who returned to Los Angeles, played 17 games for the Lakers in the regular season, averaging 17.4 points, 6.1 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game, played in 16 games in the playoffs, averaged 13.3 points, 4.6 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game, and played badly against the Nuggets in the Western Conference finals, and was even demoted by Hamm as a backup.
In the '22-23 season, Schroeder averaged 12.6 points, 2.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in the regular season; Lonnie Walker averaged 11.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game.
According to Nuggets reporter Mike Singer, the Lakers are another team that is very interested in signing Bruce Brown, who can offer him a full mid-range contract of $12.3 million a year, and the Nuggets can only give him $7.8 million this year.
Brown has previously refused to exercise the player option to become a free agent, in the 22-23 season, Brown played in 80 regular season games for the Nuggets, averaging 11.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game, and played 20 games off the bench in the playoffs, averaging 12 points, 4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.1 steals per game, one of the Nuggets who won the first championship in team history.