Including Russell Westbrook’s salary, the Lakers have $145M on their books guaranteed for next season with just five players. The Lakers are going to easily clear the luxury-tax threshold unless they shed considerable salary. ✍️ jovanbuha
, which the Lakers are expected to pick up, according to league sources, and the team is already at $150.8 million in salary with just eight players.and the Lakers’ taxpayer midlevel exception . The projected salary cap for next season is $122 million, and the projected luxury tax is $149 million. The Lakers are going to easily clear the luxury-tax threshold unless they shed considerable salary, which appears unlikely considering their goals of contending for a championship next season.
For the Westbrook-Lakers partnership to work, it’s going to take a level of sacrifice that Westbrook has yet to show in his NBA career. The Lakers are confident that new head coach Darvin Ham will be able to relate to Westbrook and get through to him in a way that former head coach Frank Vogel wasn’t able to.
“We have to start on the defensive end in terms of what his role is going to be,” Ham said. “I’m going to expect him to be the same tenacious, high-energy player that he’s been all his entire career.” It seems unlikely that Westbrook, who will turn 34 at the beginning of next season, is capable of becoming the caliber of defender the Lakers want him to be. Last season, the Lakers often hid Westbrook on an opponent’s worst perimeter scorer. His defensive film and metrics weren’t encouraging, indicating he’s somewhere between below-average and awful.
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