Lakers Strategy for Walker Kessler

You want me to be honest?

What if you're the Lakers and this is a bad contract to be clear,

it is a clear overpay.

You might have to do something really irresponsible to get the jazz

not to match. Do you?

I think you could argue that the lodge, not the logical.

What am I saying? The irrational, but like maybe thing you have to do

is throw like a the Chandler Parsons two plus one max at Walker Kessler

purely with the idea that this will scare the jazz off,

but it's a short enough commitment that after two the two years are up.

We can negotiate a new deal and have him opt out with the player option.

Try to steal him away that contract to be clear would be an overpay.

I would not fret a bandwagon Kessler.

Yeah, I would not want Walker Kessler on a max deal.

The logic for the Lakers is that if you can get him on an offer sheet instead

of a sign and trade you still have your picks at your disposal.

So what you could do afterward is take Jared Vanderbilt.

Take the edge out right?

And if he opts in take whatever salary you have.

Attach it to your picks and go get wings with the idea that you have Luka and Reeves in place

So your ball handling is set Walker Kessler would be your center finally

And then everything after that would be we have a little bit of cap space left

We have two first-round picks because they drafted Cameron Carr

I think they'd want to keep and just say can we get a wing or two like that and that is our team

So you think the Lakers should do that which would tie up their?

Flexibility for next year, which they could still get in like max contract vicinity range

You think at this point they should just throw that away and give Kessler this type of deal

Well, what's your Intel if you have any thought that like and look we've joked about this on the show

If if Luka is texting yokich and yokich is like, yeah, I'm interested

Well, then, of course you don't then you just run it back on one of your deals

but if you don't have any Intel that you're gonna be able to do anything with that 2027 cap space if

Yokich is resigning if Mitchell is resigning if Giannis is resigning like you're gonna be in the same position next year

Anyway, the question is can Utah?

Handle that I don't think so. I don't think they'd be able to give him a max salary for even two years

Maybe

because

Here for this upcoming season. It's fine. They're still be under the tax

But when you're looking at the following season, yeah, you're gonna be a tax team to keep Keonte George at that point

I don't know. I think they just let Kessler go at that point, right?

Yeah, so that's like look that's the way the Lakers could in theory do it. It would be an enormous risk

It would be pretty irresponsible

But if you want to get a high-end center and you don't want to trade draft picks to do it

Because you like the Lakers between their cap space and their picks have a lot of needs to fill

so giving up both cap space and picks for one guy as you would have to in a sign and trade is

Like that's just not tenable, right?

If you do a sign and trade where you give up all of your draft picks to get Walker Kessler

Then you have no way of getting wings. So it's kind of useless

So I'd rather overpay for Walker Kessler on an offer sheet with the idea that I'm then gonna turn around and use my picks

to get wings