Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash will be around for at least another season. According to the L.A. Times, Nash — who only played 12 games this season — is owed 9.7 million and will receive the money he is “playing” for.
For financial reasons, the Lakers currently plan to keep him next season, The Times has learned, eating the remainder of his contract ($9.7 million) in one swoop instead of waiving him and spreading the money out over three years.
It would give them more money to spend in the summers of 2015 and 2016, when they figure to be active players in the free-agent market amid such possible names as Kevin Love, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
via: L.A. Times
