On August 2, the Lakers can offer Luka Doncic a maximum extension. What wait will it be?
Luka Doncic went to the NBC Toray show on Thursday and played stupid. The Craig Melvin host asked: “Great decision on Saturday … if you sign that extension of the contract. Any messages for fans?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Doncic replied with a smile. “I still can’t discuss anything.”
Saturday 2 August, six months from the day I am exchanged for him in an agreement that shook the championshipLakers can offer an extension of the contract to Doncic. The Los Angeles offer cannot approach the $ 346 million supermax contract (35% of the salary limit) that Dallas could have offered, but Nico Harrison and Dallas have the property to pay that number (due to the doubts about Doncic’s conditioning, who seem to have motivated Doncic). The maximum that Lakers can offer is 30% of the salary limit pursuant to CBA.
Doncic will sign the contract. The Lakers clearly started building him around him as a future (leaving Lebron James at a point where he had never been before in his career). Doncic saw what he is doing, and not only did he talk a lot about the Lakers organization from trade, but this summer he also helped to recruit Deandre Ayton and Marcus Smart to join him.
The only question is the form of the extension that signs. There are some options.
Four year old max
The largest offer of the Lakers is four years, $ 224.9 million and the general manager of the Lakers Rob Pelinka will put him on the table on Saturday. (Note: that number is less than 229 million dollars often reported as Massimo because the NBA salary limit is expected to increase only 7% next season and not 10% previously expected, reducing the total.)
This new agreement includes that Doncic’s 49.9 million dollars are guaranteed for the next season (which is blocked in whatever choosing), so he would have renounced the last year of his current contract and would sign a four -year extension, which would probably be structured as three seasons guaranteed plus an option of the player. There have been Some relationships outside Europe That Doncic agreed this maximum contract of four years. Even if it is possible, it seems unlikely, unless there are players’ options after two years.
Max Triennale
The reason to sign for the three years is money – After playing three more seasons, Doncic will have reached 10 years of league service, at that point it is suitable for 35% of the salary limit (compared to 30% of La it can offer now). Con l’accordo di tre anni, quando finisce può firmare un contratto massimo di cinque anni con i Lakers o uno di quattro anni con un’altra squadra, a seconda di come si sente per la sua situazione in quel momento. This is the option that obtains the greatest number of money and flexibility.
There are other options. In theory, Doncic could sign a two -year agreement (one guaranteed more a player option) to maintain a little leverage on the Lakers, but the most likely option is to block the maximum money until it reaches 10 years of service, then go from there.
In one way or another, Doncic will sign with the Lakers. He is currently in the United States on a Jordan brand shoe tour and should sign the agreement this weekend. By 4 August it should be in Slovenia, preparing for the Eurobasket with his national team. If it does not sign the agreement before returning to Europe, it is probably in September before the agreement is formally inked. But it will be.