{"id":270225,"date":"2022-04-08T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=270225"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:42:02","slug":"lakers-have-not-ruled-out-the-possibility-of-using-the-waive-and-stretch-provision-on-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-have-not-ruled-out-the-possibility-of-using-the-waive-and-stretch-provision-on-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers have not ruled out the possibility of using the waive-and-stretch provision on Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are still considering whether to stretch or not Russell Westbrook\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/trading-russell-westbrook?s=r\">Marc Stein<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/266425\/Lakers-Havent-Ruled-Out-Stretching-Russell-Westbrook-Could-Be-Used-To-Keep-Malik-Monk\">RealGM<\/a>), The Lakers could take Westbrook&#8217;s $47 million salary and stretch it over three years at approximately $15 million per year, which would take the team out of the luxury tax and also make it easier to retain Malik Monk.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers potentially see stretching Westbrook as a way of keeping Monk as worth it in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p>In order to free themselves of Westbrook&#8217;s contract otherwise would mean taking on bad salary and\/or trading future draft assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers potentially see stretching Westbrook as a way of keeping Monk as worth it in and of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":231474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-270225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/Westbrook.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270225"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=270225"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=270225"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=270225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}