It turns out the Los Angeles Lakers’ interest in Walker Kessler would have painted them into a $120 million corner.
According to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, the Utah Jazz previously rebuffed offers from the Lakers, among others, for their 7’2” behemoth. As Grant Afseth of the Dallas Hoops Journal notes, the Jazz also flinched as giving Kessler an extension ahead of this season worth around $120 million—a commitment for which Los Angeles would have been on the hook if its pursuit of the 24-year-old had been successful.
In hindsight, the Lakers are better off without Kessler
The money here is not the problem, per se.