{"id":409936,"date":"2026-06-05T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=409936"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:41:27","slug":"new-lakers-rumors-on-austin-reaves-contract-demands-amid-lebron-buzz-nba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/new-lakers-rumors-on-austin-reaves-contract-demands-amid-lebron-buzz-nba-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lakers Rumors on Austin Reaves&#8217; Contract Demands amid LeBron Buzz, NBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-153-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-409937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-153-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-153-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-153-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-153.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los Angeles Lakers forward Austin Reaves, who can decline his player option to become a free agent this offseason, is expected to want the max, per Brad Turner of the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0Spectrum Sportsnet Live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He stands to make five years, $241 million if they offer him that deal. Or if he goes to a team like the Chicago Bulls, or a team like Brooklyn, he can get four years, $178 million. Those teams will kind of lurk around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But based on what I understand, what I keep hearing: Austin wants the max. Is he willing to give the Lakers a hometown deal? I&#8217;m not so sure about that. Maybe he does, but maybe his reps don&#8217;t want that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reaves averaged 23.3 points on 49.0 percent shooting, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds in 51 games last season. A strained left calf and a Grade 2 left oblique strain forced him to miss time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the 28-year-old showcased that he&#8217;s worthy of a lucrative new deal. The question is whether the Lakers give him the max or he gets a huge contract elsewhere. One can guess that could very well happen given his impressive production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, the Lakers have a host of questions this summer outside Reaves. For starters, four-time NBA MVP and 23-year veteran LeBron James is an impending free agent. Center Deandre Ayton has a player option and could be out of town as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ayton&#8217;s departure in particular could be a tough loss, leading the Lakers on the search for another starting center. They could have some options, though, as Spectrum SportsNet relayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L.A. went 53-29 last year and made the second round of the playoffs before being swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Lakers, of note, were without the NBA&#8217;s leading scorer, Luka Don\u010di\u0107, in the playoffs as he recovered from a Grade 2 hamstring strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They certainly have playoff potential with Don\u010di\u0107 back in the mix next year, but the rest of the roster features a murkier picture right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers forward Austin Reaves, who can decline his player option to become a free agent this offseason, is expected to want the max, per Brad Turner of the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0on\u00a0Spectrum Sportsnet Live. &#8220;He stands to make five years, $241 million if they offer him that deal. Or if he goes to a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409938,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409936\/revisions\/409938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}