Who’s Left on LA Lakers’ 2016 NBA Free-Agency Big Board?

July 3rd, 2016 by David Murphy Leave a reply »

The Los Angeles Lakers dropped some major coin during the first days of 2016 NBA free agency. While they still have money to spend, the question turns to a rapidly diminishing inventory of available players.

It all started late Thursday night when L.A. reached an agreement with man mountain Timofey Mozgov on a four-year, $64 million deal, first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical.

Bleacher Report's Howard Beck referred to the Lakers' opening salvo as "baffling to say the least." Watch more of Beck's critique below:



That was soon followed by an agreement with Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson for four years and $50 million, per The Vertical’s Shams Charania. Saturday, L.A. and combo forward Luol Deng reached an agreement for $72 million over four years, also broken by Charania.

Simply put: so much money and such long contracts. But it wasn’t just the Lakers; the entire league was awash in inflated megadeals over the July 4 weekend, punctuated by an official news release from NBA.com that the 2016-17 salary cap had been set at $94.143 million.

According to Eric Pinc ...

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