Aloha, Michael.
Just my read of the tea leaves. I think Lakers would make the trade but the question is how much would they be willing to pay Bogdan that much.
I set the $18M number because that was the top possible number for the Bucks trade and it equals KCP’s current available max of $10.0M + Kuzma’s $3.5M + JaVale’s $4.2M.
The evidence continues to mount that Marcus is a dirty player. There’s no place in the game for trying to intentionally injure an opponent. This is not boxing or wrestling.