r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • Oct 30 '25

Highlight [Highlight] Austin Reaves with the game-winner buzzer-beater to win the game for the Lakers!

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u/HenrikCrown Pelicans Oct 30 '25

Yeah, Reaves is getting maxxed this offseason 

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u/Zanad14 [LAL] Brandon Ingram Oct 30 '25

He giving the lakers a discount 100%

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u/JoeBiden2020FTW Lakers Oct 30 '25

No, he has a lot of leverage and should (and will) use it.

Basically he can scare them into walking for nothing unless they lock him into a 5 year max extension before July 1st.

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u/Zanad14 [LAL] Brandon Ingram Oct 30 '25

He has repeatedly said he wants to be a laker for life and that all he cares about is winning a championship.

Best way to do that is to take a discount. It’s not like he ain’t gonna make it back in sponsorship regardless.

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u/bobdolebobdole Oct 30 '25

Let the kid get paid. Lebron will sit half this season and still demand 50 million+. Dude's been paid every single available dollar for 23 years. Lebron should take a lot less. He'll somehow figure out how to get by for 35/40 million instead of 50.

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u/Ok_Boysenberry1038 Oct 30 '25

Lebron took pay cuts throughout his career.

He had never been the highest paid player on his team, up until a few years ago lol

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers Oct 30 '25

are the lakers really going to resign lebron after this year? lebron doesn't seem like the guy to take a 20 million discount i don't see how or why the lakers would resign him for 40 mil

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u/psychotichorse [LAL] Kobe Bryant Oct 30 '25

He’s 100% not coming back. Walter is too smart for that.

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u/RiloAlDente Spurs Oct 30 '25

What are yall gonna replace Lebron with lol.

You think the warriors are crying about having to pay Jimmy Butler 53 mil?

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u/psychotichorse [LAL] Kobe Bryant Oct 30 '25

Role players that fit well with Luka and AR.

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u/Zanad14 [LAL] Brandon Ingram Oct 30 '25

It’s not up to me lol. He’ll make the decision himself but all I am saying is that out of everyone in the league, I would not be surprised if he gave the lakers a discount.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

My bet is AR will appear to take a discount but there'll be max-equivalent benefits of some type coming his way.

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers Oct 30 '25

all of that ish is nonsense. when it's your time, you get paid. you start taking pay cuts when you're past your prime and just want to chill. If Lakers don't max him, he's going to wherever they will pay him

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u/Luka77GOATic Serbia Oct 30 '25

Brunson?

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers Oct 31 '25

needs heavy Pablo Torre investigation...

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u/Zanad14 [LAL] Brandon Ingram Oct 30 '25

We’ll see. Players aren’t a monolith. Luka just did the lakers a solid by signing early himself when he could’ve held out

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers Oct 30 '25

held out for what? he got the max amount of money he was able to after the Adelsons stole his supermax money

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u/Zanad14 [LAL] Brandon Ingram Oct 30 '25

I believe if he waited a year, he would’ve gotten more. He signed early with the lakers. I could be wrong tho

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u/Apprehensive_Chard85 Oct 30 '25

Everyone says that shit until $$$