Kevin Durant to Lakers stunning claim made after player decision

The Los Angeles Lakers have already made plans to sign Kevin Durant next year by making one major move this summer, according to Fox Sports’s Nick Wright, who references the Laker’s ability to shave off enough money from Luol Deng’s contract to give them enough cap space. “I think that’s absolutely on the board,” Wright said on First Things First. “The reason the Lakers fought so hard to get LD to shave exactly enough money off his salary to where they could fit in a true max deal for Kevin Durant was to leave that window open. “They got Luol Deng to shave enough money off, it wasn’t that it created a hole for Kawhi - Durant can make more than Kawhi. “They got it to where Kawhi could fit in obviously but also Kevin Durant.”

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