Ok for the NBA contract naive folk like myself let me ask you for the sake of personal clarification. Renouncing cap holds doesn’t create cap space?
Yes of course. They renounced Randle which gave them additional cap space and then they signed Rondo quickly after that. They have $5.6 million in remaining cap space.
If Boogie can't play until January at the earliest (and may miss the entire season), why would the Lakers want him?
This dude joined yesterday and can post this **** without any proof? What the hell is going on with ClutchFans?
Mistakes happen. HP told me to fix my title and I did. You’ll be ok. Click the back button and keep scrolling on.
I think it’s pretty fair to say that this has a good chance of happening as the Pelicans just signed Julius Randle to a 2 year deal.
I feel the opposite. I believe it even more now. It made no sense from a financial standpoint, but then you see Boogie sign for 5 mil. I wouldn't be shocked if Lakers could come up with 5 mil for Cousins to play with a guy that's been to the finals 8 times n a row.
My point is that in the NBA lots of deals/decisions are fluid. Yeah, it didn't happen, but that doesn't mean that the 2 sides never talked. Cousins just chose to take a crazy deal with the Warriors, maybe he thought about taking a similar deal with Lakers, but eventually decided to go with Warriors. The OP's thread was doubted because it didn't make sense from a math standpoint for the Lakers, but eventually he signed an even more unlikely deal for 5.3 mil. Nothing has to make sense if Cousins is willing to take that sort of pay cut.
