Woj says LeBron called Klay Thompson about joining the Lakers 👀 | SportsCenter

that is hard to picture in another uniform would be Klay Thompson and the Warriors what's going on there he he's clearly headed for another uniform his career in Golden state is is essentially over uh he his agent Greg Lawrence tonight of waserman are talking with a number of teams including uh the Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks you know they've had conversations tonight I'm told LeBron James called playay Thompson uh right when free agency opened 600 p.m. Eastern uh reached out talked to Klay Thompson uh my the expectation that I have right now is these conversations this negotiation will go into tomorrow there probably will not be a resolution tonight but certainly Dallas the Lakers the Clippers have are are working to be involved in this uh those are the prominent teams for Klay Thompson whose uh career is going to be somewhere other uh then Golden State uh once his free agency period is over all right back to the players though Chris Paul about to join his seventh team of his soon to be 20 season NBA career source telling adri wowski that the 12-time allstars agreed to a one-year deal with the Spurs for 11 million the Warriors had decided to wave the 39y old earlier instead of picking up his $30 million option then there's just more Monopoly money James Harden has a new contract with the Clippers it's a 2-year deal and wait for it $70 million Harden forced to trade from Philly to La last October but what came next was actually 72 games dis played in which he averaged north of 21 points per and eight assists uh but wait there's more sources is also telling woes that Jonas balunis is set to join the Wizards on a three-year $30 million deal 32-year-old Center coming off a 12-9 season with the Pelicans now this move adds some veteran presence in front Court dep to a Wizards team that just drafted French standout Alex SAR with a second overall pick our joining us now is ESPN NBA front office Insider Bobby marks as we call him Mr Sal cap um Klay Thompson as W said earlier is pretty much done in Golden State he's looking at two teams going to have some conversations the Lakers in the MS the question is though Bobby both teams want him but how does he fit in those respective rosters yeah both are complicated here so now we're looking at the Los Angeles Lakers right now they have a salary at $140 million the number to keep an eye on is $178 million they cannot exceed that number to bring in Klay Thompson here and this is where it is we have LeBron James taking a $25 million discount okay for Klay Thompson so when we s we put LeBron in and we look at clay this is at a $ 122.5 Million number right you're you're right you're right there you're right at that $178 Million number here that's that's the way if you're not going to make a trade for d'angel Russell or Ru hachimura to clear out money it's going to have LeBron James take a significant discount he said he would be willing to take a discount but is 25 million enough for him well that's the thing that's going to be the big question is if Klay Thompson says I want to come here will he take a 25 million or is there a trade out there to uh to get you know Clay there and free up some more money what about the Mavericks though yeah it's a little bit more cleaner uh they just agreed wo just reported they agreed to a 3year 27 million dollar deal with Naji Marshall from New Orleans here so when you look at we're going to put nji in here right now remember 178 is still the number okay so when we put Nai in put him at 8 million we slide them over now what Dallas has to do they have to go out and make a trade okay they have to move a player like Josh Green so we're going to take Josh off okay that gets them down to 155.5 M 178 is the number right they have a trade exception okay $16 million so basically they would have to orchestrate a sign and trade with golden state clay can make significantly more let's put it at 17 and we slide them in and there you go it's a little bit more cleaner a little more obstacles here but he can make more money getting to Dallas and you would think the Warriors be willing to do whatever to get him in the best position if that includes a sign of trade considering how much he's done for the organization plus what what happened in Golden State now they created trade exception and maybe there's another player that comes to them because Steph is going to need some help that's right Bobby marks again Mr salary cap here on Sports in appreciate it [Music]

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Length: 4min 44sec (284 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 01 2024