Reject 89.2 million, the Lakers face difficulties! US media sends 1 for 2 transaction plan: Sell Reeves for Murray

Rejecting a 4-year, $89.2 million quotation contract, the Lakers are facing the difficulty of renewing the contract! US media "SI" decisively advised the Purple and Gold Army to give a 1-for-2 trading plan, suggesting that the Lakers sell Reeves for Murray.

Refused to win the third best record in the Western Conference last season but was eliminated in the first round, the Lakers have changed their previous style of strikingly adjusting their lineups since the offseason, and have introduced three new players, Laravia, Ayton and Smart through buyouts and free markets.

At the same time, he was also very cautious in renewing the contract. He did not complete an early renewal with 40-year-old James. After the latter implemented a player option worth $52.6 million to stay in the team, the Lakers ignored the reinforcement needs it frequently conveyed through their agent Ricky Paul.

The fundamental reason why the Lakers' operating style has changed is that they have obtained Doncic, the core of the next 10 years. The team hopes to keep more future draft picks and salary space in the future to build a team around Doncic.

Against this backdrop, the Lakers still provided Reeves with a four-year contract renewal worth $89.2 million, and the team reporter Dan Woike was revealed at the beginning of the season, which shows the Lakers' sincerity.

The result was that Reeves decisively rejected the contract, on the grounds that the contract amount did not meet his psychological expectations.

Another Lakers team reporter Buha said in a subsequent podcast that he believed that Reeves would receive a five-year long-term contract with an average annual salary of $30-32 million next summer, which may be the psychological expectation of Reeves and his team. After Reeves refused to renew his contract, Lakers Buha publicly stated on a podcast that he was not optimistic about Reeves' future with the Lakers unless the latter can convince Reeves to accept the role of substitute. The role adjustments such as

are based on the Lakers' existing lineup configuration and performance last season. After Doncic, a top-level ball-holding core of the same type, joined, there were obvious problems in the Lakers' backcourt defense.

Disconstrained by insufficient basic physical talent, Reeves finds it difficult to solve this problem in a short period of time, so the Lakers have targetedly strengthened the former DPOY of Smart according to Doncic's needs in the offseason.

Buha admitted that as the schedule progresses, Smart may gradually replace Reeves as the starter, which means that the latter may leave the Lakers after his contract expires next summer.

US media sends 1 for 2 trading plan

For this reason, Ethan Hutton of US media "SI" believes that instead of watching Reeves leave for free, the Lakers should prepare for the future and consider the possibility of trading in advance, and gave a 1 for 2 perfect trading plan.

The potential trading plan is as follows

Kings get: Reeves;

Lakers get: Keegan Murray + 2027 first round pick.

For the Lakers, if they cannot convince Reeves to accept the substitute, who insists on getting a five-year long-term contract with an average salary of 30 million, then this deal is definitely worth considering.

Compared to Reeves, whose role and ability overlap, the same young Murray is a better puzzle for the championship. The high-quality 3D forward line will provide reliable defense and projection beside Doncic.

The most important thing is that the Lakers also received a first-round pick in this deal, and no matter from which perspective the Lakers consider it, there is no reason to refuse.

This deal doesn't look good for the Kings, and Keegan Murray has grown to be one of the team's core over the past few seasons, not to mention that the team has to make a first-round pick.

But based on the team's lineup needs and some of the offensive data of Sao, if the Kings believe that Reeves can play more exaggerated game influence after gaining more ball rights, then this deal is also worthy of the Kings' consideration.

After Halliburton and Fox left the team one after another, the Kings signed Schroeder in the offseason to try to solve the organizational problem, but the latter is obviously not a long-term solution. At the same time, Sa's offensive efficiency showed a significant downward trend as the number of shots increased, and another ball holder needed to take more offensive opportunities. Reeves may be a good backcourt answer.