{"id":247446,"date":"2026-05-29T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:52:39","slug":"brooklyn-nets-named-potential-bidder-for-los-angeles-lakers-star-in-free-agency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247446\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets named ‘potential bidder’ for Los Angeles Lakers star in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> will have some competition when it comes to re-signing star guard Austin Reaves this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reaves has a $14 million player option for next season that he’s widely expected to turn down in favor of a new deal in free agency, and a potential new suitor has emerged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nets named ‘potential bidder’ for Austin Reaves\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to ESPN’s Tim Bontemps<\/a>, the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> are a team to watch as a “potential bidder” for Reaves over the offseason, due largely to the Nets’ ample cap space coupled with their need to add talent to the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From Bontemps:\u00a0<\/p>\n

One potential bidder to watch this summer, sources said, is the Brooklyn Nets, who will enter the offseason with more than enough salary cap space to accommodate a max-type player.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Nets will make the Lakers sweat a little bit with their ability to offer Reaves a big contract, but it seems unlikely that he would leave L.A. for Brooklyn. It also seems unlikely that the Lakers would let that happen, as the organization seems determined<\/a> to keep Reaves around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He started his journey here as a Laker and has made it very clear to us that he wants his journey to continue as a Laker,” Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka said of Reaves earlier this month. “And we feel the same way. We want his odyssey to continue to unfold in the purple and gold. … Both sides have made it abundantly clear that we want to work something out where he continues his prolific career here.”<\/p>\n

Things could obviously change, but Nets fans probably shouldn’t get their hopes up about the possibility of landing Reaves in free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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