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Free agent forward Dante Cunningham has agreed on a deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources tell The Vertical.
Cunningham has agreed to a one-year, $2.3M deal with New Orleans, league sources tell The Vertical.
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Free agent forward Dante Cunningham has agreed on a deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources tell The Vertical.
Cunningham has agreed to a one-year, $2.3M deal with New Orleans, league sources tell The Vertical.
Nice, if only for continuity sake.
Heavens to Betsy thank you Jesus.
Very glad to hear this. Kinda feel bad for him though, he basically cheated himself out of some money.
Bout time
He gambled and lost. If anything he should fire his agent for overestimating his value. If he shows out this year he might earn a better deal. He needs to keep shooting the 3 well.
In any case, I'm glad we were able to get him back. He is a solid option at that 3/4 spot.
I was hoping for this move. Good signing by the Pels. Dante Will earn less money but Will get more playing Time. Now is Time to start traning camp...
Here before *his heart is in Minnesota posts this season*
Championship caliber front court, for sure.
I like the starting lineup of Rondo,Holiday,Cunningham, AD, and Cousins. I know I might get killed for this but I rather Cunningham starting than Hill. Last year, he was a more consistent 3 and D player than Hill.
So he would have made more money by not opting out of his previous contract with us. Welcome back.
Really nice signing we needed this for depth.
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C 7'2' Alexis Ajinca
C 7'0" Omer Asik (likely OUT)
C/PF 6'11" DeMarcus Cousins
PF/C 6'11" Anthony Davis
PF 6'9" Cheick Diallo
PF/SF 6'8" Dante Cunningham
SF 6'8" Darius Miller
SF 6'7" Solomon Hill (OUT until midyear)
SG/SF 6'4" Tony Allen
SG 6'4" E'Twaun Moore
SG/PG 6'4" Jordan Crawford
SG/PG 6'3" Ian Clark
PG/SG 6'4" Frank Jackson (likely OUT)
PG/SG 6'4" Jrue Holiday
PG 6'1" Rajon Rondo
somebody from the middle muddle must be the 5th starter. Assume Cunningham for fit. He can't handle, but with a twin-PG backcourt he doesn't need to.
Surely it will be Dante.
Holy hell that took forever
For all of his faults, he's automatic from the corner and he's a smart cutter. He fits nicely in the offense. His defense is somewhat of a problem, but on nights where he struggles defensively the Pels can replace him with Allen.
I still thin the Pels start Miller if he shows improved confidence in his shot. If Miller can shoot 40% from 3, he's clearly the best 3 on the roster when Hill is out. If he still is hesitant to pull the trigger, you start DC and you're fine with it.
I still see Dante as a stretch 4. Really hoping Miller found his stride. League will be in trouble if he has.
So in theory it was 2.1M v 2.3M.
Minny could offer 2.1M (vet minimum for a 8 year player) and we only offered another 200k.
I think Dante was holding out hoping we would give him the PO he declined, hence why it took so long.
Man I'd sack my agent pretty fast.
With 2 PGs and 2 attention-drawing bigs he'll just need to hit that corner 3 and defend his man.
Yeah, that's right, **********! You're ours now!
I kid. Welcome back. Glad we don't need to replace you.
Finally some decent news.
Can't go wrong with a guy with the same last name as Richie's.
Envision this lineup.
Rondo
Jrue
Allen/Hill when he gets back
Cunningham/Hill
AD
Super defense small ball lineup!
Scoring might be an issue but we should be able to slow down just about anyone.
The NBA in general has been trending towards mostly positionless basketball recently. Look at Golden State for example: KD, Draymond, and Klay are all lengthy, athletic wings, so even though KD and Draymond spend minutes at SF, PF, and C, it doesn't matter. Klay is a SG, who is the same height as Kawhi Leonard who is a certified SF.
In short, it doesn't really matter what the team calls you, if you're a lengthy versatile wing player, you're valuable no matter how many of you are on one team.
Dante should automatically slide into the starting SF role on day one of training camp.
TBH I don't care about $$ lost by Dante.
2.3 millions is still a lot of money AND it is not that Pels declined his option...
What matters is that we are below tax line by little more than the money he lost declining player option.
This is all what matters.
We still have some room left, not much but at least some.
No. We have full 15+2 roster.
WE might be granted injured player exception when a player is injured long term.
But his $$$ count against the cap. And we dont have a room for vets minimum.
Barring a trade this roster consist of 14 guaranteed and one (Grits) not guaranteed players. Right now Crawford is guaranteed for 250k (on November 11th he will be guaranteed at 500k).
Jones III signed camp deal, Webster is supposed to do it. Both are not guaranteed. We have still a room for one camp ivitee.
14+1+2two way+2 non guaranteed camp deals=19 players
on the opening night we must have 15 players (at most) plus 2 two way players (at most)
and we are around 970k below tax line - Benson won't agree to pay tax this year.
we won't be granted an injury player exception before the start of the season (maybe during the season)
Dell needs to live some room for potential 10-day players and other additional cost.
So don't expect a move there.
Unless we have a trade lined (f.e. using a pick).
Cutting Grits (small chance) clears some space - but 250k stays in books.
13 active players plus Cooke and Jones should be enough
cut Asik and Ajinca and we have 13
of course I know
my expectations are that we are going into the season with those 15+2 players
with two-three camp deals
if f.e. Webster will show something - we may make some small moves
problem is that apart from Grits it is hard to find a movable piece.
Unless you are dumping someone with a pick.
If we know that Hill is going to miss until early Feb at best why wouldn't we be able to apply for the injury exception or play Jones until Hill returns?
when we will now the timetable of his return we can apply for it. but you have to remember about the tax. Benson won't agree for any tax this year. Injury exception counts against the tax.
but remember that Dell loves Hill. Has just signed Miller and Allen. Have Jones on two-way. Webster on camp deal.
There is no reason to apply for injury exception now. It is better to go into the camp and check what we have in house.
Formally it might be aseier to get injury exception for Asik.