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[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Jones' $12 million deal is fully guaranteed with the Thunder and now the Nuggets have until 11:59 pm ET Sunday to match or not. Denver has dealt with the restricted free agencies of Jones and Peyton Watson this offseason amid rising tax bills.

[diegogrico @diegogrico]

@LVstackiN Not to mention picks the Lakers still have can be traded on draft night...

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@LakersLegacyPod Reminds me a bit of a young Jae Crowder type.

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@pelinkaburner The extension would be a rookie scale extension so the 1st year would be limited to a 40% raise vs 140% if they were coming off a 4 year rookie deal. It may actually work in the Lakers favor for the same reason Austin has been on team friendly deals for as long as he was.

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@TrevorLane Ayton would have been the worst version of himself coming off the bench for the Lakers. That was never going to work out especially on an expiring contract.

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@CanyonDriver We would have gotten the worst version of Ayton if he was forced to come off the vench.

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@Tim_NBA All true, but he's going to have to be better as he is seemingly going to get significant minutes. That or it's going to be a sobering reality check real fast for JJ and his staff.

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@RajChipalu I don't think anyone is wanting to pay that Brown extension he is expecting. I'm sure that kept many Teams from Buying.

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@LakerCj It's all a matter of what the players are good at and what defensive scheme JJ can implement to lean into what they can do well. I expect there will be a lot less switching and more drop coverage with Kessler.

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@Tim_NBA Hopefully his defensive impact is better if the Lakers play more drop given his screen navigation is good.

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@LakerCj He can probably play in lineups with Mamu at C.

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@TrevorLane @rongutterman24 Yes, it was never going to all happen in one transaction cycle. They will need one, if not both, of Carr/Thiero to pan out eventually as at least rotational pieces. All contracts given out are reasonable enough that they can also be used as trade pieces in a future deal too.

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@CanyonDriver @_OfficialProta I think a young two-way center is pretty close in cost especially with the defensive impact that Kessler offers.

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@DraftDeeper Ehh. They will end up turning into late 1sts and swaps that won't be exercised.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Statement from Joey and Jesse Buss: “We are extremely honored to have been part of this organization for the last 20 seasons. Thank you to Laker Nation for embracing our family every step of the way. We wish things could be different with the way our time ended with the team. At times like this we wish we could ask our Dad what he would think about it all.”

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Los Angeles Lakers are reorganizing their basketball operations department and terminating executives Joey and Jesse Buss from their respective front office positions, effective immediately, the brothers told ESPN.

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@OrinRomine @SarahIronside6 Farms in the U.S. generally aren't sustainable due to inherent costs compared to other countries. U.S. policy, to varying degrees, and not so much in this administration, has been to subsidize farms b/c it's a geopolitical risk for the country not to be able to produce food.