As soon as news broke of Marcus Smart signing a two-year, $11 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, many were quick to look at those numbers and realize the math was not adding up. Shake Milton and Jordan Goodwin have paid the price as a result.
Waiving Shake Milton was one of the least surprising moves of the offseason for the Lakers. Many had projected his non-guaranteed salary made him an obvious candidate to be cut before his looming July 20 deadline. That was indeed what happened.
However, being forced to surrender Goodwin is a different story.