Trade Radar · open rumor · Saturday, October 3 · 3 d ago

Lakers Notes: Thybulle, Two-Way Players, LaRavia, James

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Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves are expected to be the leaders of the Lakers’ offense this season, and an aggressive group of wing defenders is getting them ready for that role, Benjamin Royer of The Orange County Register writes in a subscriber-only story. “They all annoy the hell out of me,” Reaves said of the […]

Confidence

42%

Reporter starting tier	45	unattributed report
Corroboration	+0	nobody else has reported this yet
Age	−3	3 days old · a rumor loses 1.2 points a day, up to 25

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Who it involves

Austin Reaves

Lakers · G · 23.3 pts · 4.7 reb · 5.5 ast

Cap hit 2026-27: $41.24M · next season $44.54M

Los Angeles Lakers

$201.3M · in the tax · 16 contracts · cap sheet

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