The Lakers cut another one! The operational transaction failed again, and they reluctantly gave up the masked man, exposing two major problems

July 21 news, this morning, famous reporter Shams brought the latest report that in order to make room for signing Smart, the Lakers officially quit guard Goodwin today after releasing Milton. Milton's contract for the new season is $3 million, and if he cut it before today, he would not have to spend money, so he will definitely be the priority. But what is unexpected is that in order to sign the former DPOY, the Lakers still need to continue to clear the space, because the contract the Lakers intend to give Smart is a two-year, $11 million contract, so the remaining salary space of the Lakers currently has to lay off people themselves if they don’t make a deal.

, ClutchPoints reporter Brett Siegel added, over the past 24 hours, the Lakers have negotiated with multiple teams to try to free up some cap space without sacrificing important draft assets, and then sign Smart smoothly. But unfortunately, the transaction negotiations did not make any substantial progress. The Lakers wanted to plan the integrated transaction, with the goal of Kennett and Kleber, but the transaction negotiations failed again. In fact, the Lakers are very optimistic about Goodwin. He has gone from a two-way contract to a formal contract and has also become an important rotation player for Reddick. Although he has shortcomings, it is indeed a pity to give up like this.

Goodwin's guaranteed salary in the new season is only $25,000, so the Lakers' slashing will have little impact on salary space, but the slashing of Goodwin has involved two more problems. The first problem is that the Lakers' existing trading assets are really troublesome. The Lakers are always selling outwards, but no next player is willing to take over. Judging from the information disclosed above, it is estimated that the trading negotiators want to force the Lakers to make compromises at the cost of the Lakers' pick, but the Lakers themselves do not want to pay the draft pick to reach a deal, so the transaction negotiations failed again, and they had no choice but to take action against Goodwin.

Apart from this, the second problem is to cut off Milton and Goodwin. Milton performed unstable, with strong offense and weak defense. It is only a matter of time before giving up him, but it is indeed a pity to give up Goodwin. After all, he is a person who made the rotation with his strength. Although he also has shortcomings, it is still OK to do a final rotation. In fact, as a Lakers fan, the biggest worry is Smart's current state. If he recovers from injury and shows the strength of DPOY in the past, the Lakers will not lose money to give up Goodwin, but the problem is that Smart has not played well in recent years and his condition has declined very well. If you have room to sign naked, it would be fine. You now give up a rotation guard to sign him. Once Smart performs poorly, Pelinka's operation will definitely be criticized again.