Woj – “The Lakers were incredibly intriguing to Thompson, but the financial savings from living in Texas over California and the fact that the Mavericks were within three victories of an NBA championship played immense factors in his decision, sources said. “
by daftmunt
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“I wish I could find someone like you.. just not you” – everyone to the Lakers
Why does a person with that much money care about taxes.
The doomers are still gonna blame Pelinka and the front office. 😂
The why don’t matter to me. He turned down more cash here for Dallas. He don’t wanna be here? Fine. We good. On to the next.
This for everyone saying Rob ain’t doing shit lol bro did not wanna come to the lakers.
who cares, this guy is 35 years old one alc and achilles injury , luka defense is bad and kyrie isnt going to get any better after the awful finals performance
He saved the lakers from themselves tbh if that 80M is true
Another California transplant in Texas. Smh
Pure leverage. Why do players always do this?
Have fun paying a washed 36 year old DAL
Not all lakers fan are really into klay, including me so it is not that big deal. I prefer to get young than washed player. Dont go for big names and go for the correct role player.
I’m fine with this outcome. I’m fine that they considered Klay and I’m fine with him deciding to go to Dallas as they might have better odds to reach the finals over the course of that 3 year deal.
Sad but happy
Fuck man. I just knew we’d get him because of his dad.. could’ve been a legend
It was a fucking cinderella run. Pretty sure it will not happen again this season.
In other words, he went with the most money.
Klays a dumbass if he think mavs will return to the finals. Specially with a defense that features himself ky and luka
Crazy man Boston has 5 players earning 30 million and 2 of them about 50 million a year. Yet the Lakers have no cap room
The best thing about this is Mavs will probably have to blow up the team and we’ll have a chance at Luka.
That Mavs finals run was fools gold. If we got past the Nuggets we crush Dallas.
Hope he bricks every 3 in there
Lmao after other costs, Texas isn’t even cheaper than California. But tbh 4 years of paying him 20M would have been terrible so its all good
This just in: we don’t give a fuck. It’s a blessing not to have him. If you can make $80,000,000 in 4 years after being washed and shooting 0/10 in an elimination game based on your name.. I’ll just change my name to Klay and sign.
Fuck california taxes fr
i have a feeling the Mavs are not going back to the Finals. fuck your 3 victories away.
Bro is saving 16% on his state taxes on his reportable income… that’s it. Fucking absolutely not a real factor. Stop 😂
Fuck klay
You could just copy and paste the very first sentence to every single free agency the past few years.
Financial savings?
I guess if he doesn’t buy a home. Highest property taxes in the country. Texas doesn’t have state taxes (but state taxes aren’t typically a ton yearly). Other than that, it’s not like there’s some massive savings.
Imagine paying 80M for a player rated 74-76
what a brokeboi
Not that I feel that Klay tips the scales for this team, but at what point are leagues going to start changing things up so that teams that are in states that lack income taxes don’t have such an advantage. It seems insane that there are a handful of teams that get to operate with such an advantage. They should either lower those team’s salary cap to make up the tax benefits that they get, or allow other teams to increase their salary cap to make things even.