On August 18, Beijing time, the Los Angeles Lakers' current big list has a full 12 people, but they are also ready to add two more people, and there is no idea of signing veteran Dudley.
The Lakers have been selected as the participating party in next season's Christmas war, and their opponent will be the Nets, which have the Big Four, and the Lakers Big Five are eager to try. The current Lakers roster has been announced, that is, James and the thick eyebrow brother are still there, plus Tucker, Gasol, these four are the old people last season, there is another Kacock can not enter the rotation, the other 9 people have left the team on a large scale.
Of course, at the same time, the Lakers also came with a full 8 people, especially the superstar Westbrook, plus Munch, Bazemore and Ellington, as well as Nunn's backcourt. As well as a lineup of Ariza, Anthony and Warcraft Howard, the Lakers now have 13 people on the big list, but there are exactly 12 guaranteed contracts.
Therefore, the new blockbuster news from the Lakers at present is that they want to find a good point guard as a substitute for Westbrook, and find another wing player to become James's spare tire, so that the Lakers will enter the new season with a 14-man roster, leaving a vacancy, ensuring the flexibility of the lineup, and the two two-way contract players are also in place.
But the Lakers didn't mention Dudley's news throughout the story, and the Lakers' Adu and the soul of the locker room seemed to have a great possibility of being abandoned outright. The most of a team is the 15+2 list, the Lakers are only 12+2 now, but they have no intention of signing Dudley, to put it bluntly, they don't even want to give him the basic salary, but the Lakers are not signing him now, and there may be another key meaning behind it.
The Lakers' abandonment of Dudley is only temporary, and their salary and luxury tax have completely exceeded $200 million, so the Lakers are not signing Dudley now to save money and sign two cheaper base salaries. At present, if they give Dudley a basic salary, they will have to spend an additional $8 million for him, but if the Lakers drag it to the final day of the regular season and only sign him back when they enter the playoffs, they only need to spend $31,000, which is equivalent to saving 266 times.
To put it bluntly, it is too much to sign Dudley now, and the Lakers' calculation is obviously to wait until the last day of the season to sign him, so that you can save more than $7 million and make a lot of money, and it is enough to let him stabilize the locker room in the playoffs. And the US media also broke the news that James's team has the habit of pressing the whistle on the last day of the regular season, signing the evil man Duntai Jones on the last day of the 2017 regular season, he played dirty, and in 2018, he also signed the cruel Perkins, who played in the playoffs. It's now possible to repeat the previous two operations, signing Adu on the last day and using him to play in the playoffs.