On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lotta cap space available out there. But this Spotrac table shows each team’s projected practical cap space. The number a team can reasonably be expected to get down to if they want to. There’s always a way and that could affect outside offers to AR & Rui
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap/
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap/
Utah and Ainge will for sure give Reeves his poison pill deal to either steal him or at least F with the Lakers. Rui seems like an ideal fit in Houston. No pressure, lots of money. Always fearful of that contract year bump. Dude could easily be a Biyombo.
Everybody saw where he said he wanted to return to the Lakers but few read the last line of that quote “….we’ll see what happens”. Hard to turn down an offer sheet for 4yrs and $100mill guaranteed.
We’ll see what happens
Caruso said the same thing and was low-balled all the way to another team. Rob always says stuff like this, even after the Drummond disaster. We will see indeed.