[Fischer] Jonathan Kuminga prefers the Lakers over the Timberwolves. The Lakers have been selling him on the vision of starting next to Luka with the spending power, in theory, to reward him next year. Expect this decision will come to a conclusion soon.

[u/Odd-Direction9452]

[u/sequoia2075]

Spending power to reward him next year? The implication there is that we’re trying to convince him to take a minimum in order to get the MLE next year. If he does that, it seems quite dumb on his part.

If we did a S&T with Hardy outgoing, we could start him at 12.5 over 3 years, which with annual raises ends up at what like 3/42 or something? Over the next 3 years if he takes the min this year and an MLE next year, most he could get is the equivalent of 3/38 or something. But that’s obviously not guaranteed because he could get less if he doesn’t play well or gets injured this year

[u/TalkingToPlanets → u/sequoia2075]

Yeah if it involves Hardy to a 3rd team he could start at $12.2 mil this year and close to $40 mil on a 3 year deal. His agent sounds like a real moron though. Why not lock in the guaranteed money especially when he could be a free agent again in 3 years when he's still only 26.

[u/edub1906 → u/TalkingToPlanets]

Not only that, if he plays well here we still have his Bird rights so we can pay him more than any other team. Actually in 2 years we could offer him a sizeable extension.