Julius Randle is set to enter his fourth season with the Los Angeles Lakers since they selected him No. 7 overall in the 2014 NBA Draft. It will be the most important season so far in his young career as he hits the free agent market in the summer of 2018 as a restricted free agent.
The Lakers have big spending plans next summer as they hope to clear enough salary cap space to offer two max contracts and Randle’s $12.4 million cap hold could certainly factor into those aspirations somewhere. It will be the first contract year of Randle’s career and he has certainly put in work this summer to prepare for it.