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Kyrie Hater
It's going to be interesting to see what Ingram can get on his next contract.
I think the Lakers tried to bring him along too slowly his rookie year. He showed improvement over the next 2 seasons, especially 2018-19, but he also missed 53 games over 2017-18 and 2018-19 which, combined with how skinny he is, leads to concerns that he's injury prone.
This year, before the shut down, he was looking like an all star and had played and started all 56 games, but as you point out, he's also about to be an RFA.
Ultimately, I think he will be an all star caliber player for the rest of his career, but if I were an NBA general manager, I'm not sure how much money I would want to bet on that.
I think he will get that pay check after his last season. But that isn’t where his valuation was at last summer. He improved a lot this past year making the Pelicans decision much easier.