Randle s contract renewal becomes the key to the Lakers price reduction! Reeves contract renewal is changing

In the NBA's transfer renewal, Reeves' contract renewal with the Lakers is attracting much attention. According to the official website of NBA China, Reeves has rejected the Lakers' early contract renewal of nearly 90 million yuan in four years, and plans to break out of the contract next summer and seek a multi-year contract with an average salary of no less than 30 million yuan. The purpose of his intention to make more money is very clear.

From the Lakers' perspective, keeping Reeves is undoubtedly the preferred option, but the amount of contract renewal has become a key problem. If Reeves is a player who is both offensive and defensive like Anunobi and Bridges, or young talents like Amen Thompson and Matherine, Lakers' management Pelinka will definitely make a big contract without hesitation. However, the reality is that Reeves has outstanding characteristics of strong offense and weak offense. His career positive and negative offense value is only 0.9, and his real positive and negative defense value is -0.5. Moreover, at the age of 26, he is almost close to the upper limit of growth. Even if his ball-holding ability has been improved in the new season, he is limited by defensive shortcomings and can basically only hover on the edge of the All-Star. This puts the Lakers in a dilemma on renewing the contract. They are afraid of losing money when they give big contracts, and they are afraid that they will not be able to keep people if the contract is small.

However, for the Lakers, a reference example has appeared. According to the NBA China official website, Randall reached a three-year, 100 million contract extension with the Timberwolves.

First of all, from the perspective of positioning, if the Lakers have no star player transactions this summer, Reeves is the third leader of the team, and Randall is the second leader of the Timberwolves after Edwards. Secondly, in terms of characteristics, Randall's real offensive plus or negative value in his career 1.2. Real defense plus or negative value - 0.2, just like Reeves, the attack is strong and the defense is weak. Next is the position. Randall plays the fourth position 83% of the time, and Reeves plays the second position 51% of the time, and Randall's forward position is even more popular. In the end, Randall averaged 19.0 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists per game in his career, Reeves averaged 14.5 points, 3.8 rebounds, 4.3 assists per game, Randall was even better.

Overall, Randle's average salary is 33 million, and Pelinka has every reason to use this as a reference to reduce Reeves' average salary for renewal to less than 30 million. Let's wait and see where Reeves's contract renewal journey will go.