It’s already good for him not to opt out and resigned with more money cuz he can accept hes current pay for Lakers to be able to resign LO and ariza tho KB24 can get more for a player of his caliber… isn’t that good enough???

but for some guys… NO NO NO it’s not enough… it’s never enough… I bet if somehow he accept lower salary than his current… ppl will still say.. it’s still not enough.. he should’ve taken even less…

lol…

“why should i take less when im the best? these two losers should take less to play with me.”

To answer this question…because Kobe didn’t win the championship by himself (he needed the help of both Ariza and LO). that’s why.

And to “say ship their asses out”…You sound like Kobe a few years ago and thank God Mitch didn’t listen.

To say the Lakers can get Artest is where you aren’t thinking. Artest made $7.5M last year. The only way he can come here is if he’s willing to take a paycut. I think Ron is looking for a bigger payday.

It doesn’t matter if 28 clubs are being conservative, all the Lakers need is 1 other team to go after Ariza and/or Odom and it’s not a buyers market as you put it. Sure a lot of teams are being conservative, but there are also a lot looking to spend.

As for trading a bad contract, all trades have to be relatively equal in salary (125% + $100,000), so if they trade a bad contract they’ll have to get one in return. The only case that isn’t true is if the team getting the bad contract is under the cap, which means then could then take on a larger contract and give up a smaller one. Lets use Sasha for example, he’s making $5 mil next season. So, if the Lakers were to trade him to any team over the cap (most teams are), they would have to take on a contract of about equal value, so they wouldn’t be able to shed any salary. They could find a team under the cap, but at the start of free agency pretty much no team is going to trade for a bad contract unless they’re getting something else of value in addition.

What are you talking about? He can sign anywhere in between the league maximum (where he’s at now) and league minimum. Guess what that means? No where to go but lower.

And for everyone that said to just put more money on the back end of a deal, that doesn’t work for 2 reasons. First, it’s not even possible as the league has a max % that it can raise each year and he’s already on that, so they couldn’t scale it more than it is. Second, then it screws them up for the future which is what they are seeing now with Pau and Kobe both near the end of their deals and getting paid way more than the average of their contracts.