The Lakers failed to trade! Forced to buy out x2!

The Lakers are planning to win Smart with a biennial exception, with a contract amount of 11 million in two years.

Biennial special case, a specific contract with an annual salary slightly higher than the base salary and a fixed starting salary. Each team can only use a biennial special case once every two years, and a biennial special case can be split into multiple parts (as is the specific middle class). The biennium special case requires that the team's total salary must not trigger the rich line, and there is no need to use the mini middle class or space middle class at the moment.

Under the salary cap of the 2025-26 season:

The full middle class special case is US$14.104 million

The space middle class special case is US$8.781 million

The mini middle class special case is US$5.685 million

The starting salary is US$5.134 million

The first tyrant line in the new season is US$195.9 million, and the Lakers are currently only US$909,000 away from the first tyrant line. If the full use of the biennium special case will trigger the first tyrant line, which is not allowed.

Therefore, if the Lakers want to successfully sign Smart with a biennial special, they must clear out enough cap space. Previously, in order to have a quota, the Lakers had cut Sheck Milton.

Milton's contract is $3 million, full insured. Before Milton's contract was transferred to security, the Lakers cut Milton painlessly and released 3 million in capacities. With the original 909,000 space, the Lakers' available salary space reached $3.909 million after the layoff of Milton, which is still not enough to sign Smart. The Lakers' original idea was to actively operate the trades and trade Kneckett and Cleber without sacrificing draft picks to achieve the goal of freeing up a certain amount of cap space. In the past 24 hours, Pelinka has made a phone call in the trading market, but no team is interested in the Lakers' trading plan.

In desperation, the Lakers could only reluctantly cut Goodwin.

Goodwin's annual salary next season is 2.34 million, but only $25,000 is guaranteed. The Lakers have cut two players in a row, and basically nothing is spent. The Lakers are quite reluctant to give up Goodwin, and they are still optimistic about Goodwin. In the second half of this season, Goodwin became Redick's main rotation player.

This season, Goodwin played 29 regular season games with the Lakers, averaging 5.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game; he also got 4 games in the playoffs.

is a very affordable player. It is very good to fill in some rotation time, and the Lakers are actually reluctant to leave.

How come no one wants to trade with the Lakers.

My dear mentioned several times this offseason that the Lakers are 0 in the trading market. In fact, it’s really not that Pelinka is incompetent, mainly because the Lakers have too few trading assets available.

As we all know, in order to avoid some teams from overconsuming the future, the NBA does not allow teams to trade first-round picks continuously, but there is no such regulation for second-round picks. Therefore, the Lakers have been desperately consuming the second round of picks in the past two years. So much so that now, there are only one draft pick that can be used for trading in 2031/2032 and one second round in 2032. Yes, there is only one second round pick left in the Lakers. This second round pick in 2031 is still because it was just released this summer, so there was no time to trade. The following are all the remaining draft picks for the Lakers 👇 is all the remaining ones! This palace has never seen such a shabby future signing position inventory. Of course, it really doesn't work. The Lakers still have 6 draft swap rights

2026, 2028, 2030, 2031, and 2032, all of which can be used. Are the Lakers’ all assets next season rich? Did you suddenly understand why the Lakers are just jumping in the buyout market? Because they are really clever and difficult to do. With this lineup, who do you think is worth trading?