Because of the artificial restrictions created by the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement, the most the Lakers could pay Austin Reaves this summer in restricted free agency was a four-year deal worth up to $56 million. However, he could have gotten four years and approximately $100 million from another team with cap space, such as the San Antonio Spurs, which the Lakers would have then had to decide whether or not to match.
Ultimately things never came to that, as Reaves simply re-signed in Los Angeles on the first day of free agency without waiting on an offer sheet that might never have come.