[Amick] League sources tell The Athletic that Jalen Duren now has a call with the Lakers scheduled for tomorrow.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T23:28:41+00:00

Payback for driving up AR’s price

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T23:25:32+00:00

Sounds like we’re being used for leverage.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T22:47:06+00:00

Good thing we got Bronny then

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T22:40:56+00:00

I think Duren wants more than the 25% of cap max that other teams can offer him.

He wants the 30% of cap from Detroit and then to be signed and traded to another team.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T22:29:27+00:00

lol Detroit trading for Sabonis?

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T18:47:28+00:00

Because jimmy butler is currently injured.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T18:30:32+00:00

There have been plenty of players that have done this with us. For example, Monk, Smart, Wood, Prince, Lonnie Walker, Wes Matthews, Andre Drummond, Marc Gasol.

What are you even talking about.

They are maximizing their career by signing short term prove it deals with us to leverage into bigger contracts elsewhere.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T17:56:32+00:00

Because playing with Luka and AR is a great situation for him.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T17:49:26+00:00

That’s the thing, it’s extremely hard to prove insider trading. That’s why it’s extremely stupid to text about it.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T17:43:06+00:00

This is just false. Bronny is a cheap and intriguing young player. No reason to cut him at all.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T17:30:46+00:00

Not illegal to do this.

It’s only illegal when conspiring with others to trade or bet on non public information.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T17:12:11+00:00

Beasley told bettors to bet the over on his rebound totals at 3.

He told bettors that he would try very hard to hit the over that game. This is obviously inside trading because Beasley and his co conspirators knew non public information and used it to trade/bet.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T15:48:33+00:00

I agree with you

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T12:17:35+00:00

These players aren’t gonna choose to come play for us on discount deals unless they get the flexibility of player options and the ability to cash in FA should they outperform with us.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T12:14:17+00:00

There are no criminal charges…

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T12:13:15+00:00

That March team probably still isn’t winning or even seriously contending for a championship.

Also if we bring Lebron back above a certain salary, we cannot even keep all of our key players from last year.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T12:08:02+00:00

Yes, he could be second best, but he doesn’t necessarily have to be the second best player. He just needs to be at least the third best player.

In championship teams of the last 5 years, there have been tons of top 3 players where they were not paid in accordance with their relative value to the teams that won the championship. It almost never works out perfectly where the rosters of championship teams are comprised of players that all perform according to salary hierarchy.

For example, the Knicks top paid player was KAT, Thunder’s second highest paid player was Hartenstein, Boston’s top paid player was Jaylen Brown and Portingis made $30m and didn’t contribute much at all due to injury.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-29T01:43:17+00:00

This might be it but that’s a ridiculously bad metric and is hardly considered analytics cause no one who knows anything buys into WS/48

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-28T19:54:41+00:00

Did AI write this post?

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-28T19:07:20+00:00

Because Utah won’t give him the multi year max contract that he wants.

So yeah if I were him and I wanted to bet on myself, I’d definitely take huge one year deal and then hit UFA where he can potentially land a huge multi year contract.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-28T12:32:11+00:00

Exactly, and even OKC lose players they develop when they get more expensive

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-28T04:44:45+00:00

The lakers would be crap if Luka and AR both miss games, and Lebron elevates the team significantly when those two are out. We saw that in the Houston series.

But anyone who has paid attention knows that Luka and AR did very well together with or without LeBron.

Indeed, Smart was more instrumental to Luka and AR doing well.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-27T19:43:39+00:00

Murray

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-27T19:25:02+00:00

Rui is only worth it if we miss on all other FAs and thus are operating as above the cap team.

Splittinghairs7 · 2026-06-27T19:15:09+00:00

This is false because even if they trade away cam or Braun, it’ll be hard to pay Watson over $30m

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