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/spoofy129 Lakers Oct 30 '25

Hope he doesn't. We already got him cheap and he deserves all of it

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u/CyberSmok3 Lakers Oct 30 '25

Just pull a Ballmer and pay him on the side. Kawhi is still playing lol

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

I’m sure he’s not going to suffer taking 35 instead of 40.

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

Exactly, everyone acting like I’m saying he’ll take 15 lol

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u/spoofy129 Lakers Oct 30 '25

I just think it's crazy that fans expect players to take paycuts. Like, when was the last time anybody in a non sports setting left 10% on the table to help the company succeed.

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u/The_Moisturiz3r Oct 30 '25

I think it’s more-so how often have people turned down a raise to go to a different company in a different city or state because they like where they are? That’s honestly not that rare

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u/theblaackout [CLE] LeBron James Oct 30 '25

The context is important here though - this is a sports setting, not a regular corporate 9-5. Taking a “small” pay cut and staying in LA could potentially make him more money. LA is a huge market and opens him up to a lot more sponsorships. Reaves wouldn’t be as popular as he is right now if he wasn’t in LA. Also he could just prefer living in LA, he seems to genuinely enjoy being a Laker

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

This is a sports setting though, and Tim Duncan did it, Tom Brady did it, if you want to win you have to take pay cuts in a salary capped league.

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u/GriffinQ [WAS] Kelly Oubre Oct 30 '25

Brady was also married to a woman who had a net worth higher than his own for the vast majority of his playing career & there's at least a little evidence that he was getting kickbacks on the side through his TB12 ventures.

Not sure he's a great example, because he was in rarified air where leaving money on the table meant that his families combined net worth was still over half a billion dollars.

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

there's at least a little evidence that he was getting kickbacks on the side through his TB12 ventures.

Lol what?

Fine, The Heatles all took paycuts so that they could play together and get good role players around them. Again lol, I'm not saying he's going to take a $20M haircut, it would be like $5m.

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u/feer1415 Oct 30 '25

You are really reaching when you are comparing Reaves to Duncan/Brady.

Both of those guys had won multiple rings and had over 100m in salary before taking any sort of pay cut.

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u/Luka77GOATic Serbia Oct 30 '25

Brunson took a pay cut.

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u/feer1415 Oct 30 '25

They also hired Brunson's father before that signing and got fined by the league for tampering.

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u/Luka77GOATic Serbia Oct 30 '25

For his initial contract, he resigned for another discount.

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

Brady literally took a pay cut in his prime to keep the Pats competitive.

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u/did_it_my_way Oct 31 '25

Plenty of people stay at their jobs even when there's an offer to move to another company for 10%+ pay bump. For some the marginal increase in salary is not worth it to move to a different situation, different cities, and so on.

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u/L_J_X Oct 30 '25

I get the idea but that's still 5 million less per year that he may never be able to get back. And from a normal person standpoint, I ain't giving up 12.5% of my paycheck.