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Never in NBA history has more then 1 team moved up more then 5 spots. Tonight their was 3 teams who moved up 6 spots.. WoW!!
Also, I forgot about cap holds. Payton, Miller, and Diallo will have about $7m worth of cap holds, I think, so we wouldn't be able to work with that money unless we renounced them, and then we couldn't sign them back.
I think. Cap wizards correct me if I'm wrong there.
Man, I really thought I wanted AD out of here, but put this kid with him and Julius Randle in the front court and... damn.
Last edited by Dr. Sting; 05-14-2019 at 11:36 PM.
I'm looking for real sports fans...not sheep! Are you with me?!!!
Even if you renounced them, you'd still have cap holds for the first 13 roster spots on the team (meaning all spots not filled would have an imaginary rookie player salary cap hold placed on it). The NBA did this specifically to keep teams from dropping their entire back end of their roster to be able to slip in a max contract.
There might be some cap magic you could work to open up a max slot but it would require trade(s) to get there.
Well you have to have money coming back in, in trades. So we could, theoretically, trade basically the entire roster but you'd need near-equivalent salary returning anyway.
We will struggle HARD to open up one max slot, if it can be done at all. Asking for two is pretty much just a no go. It's also not the stage we're at. I think bringing in multiple max players too early can be problematic for the future, as Philly are about to find out.
No, you couldn't do that straight up.
Dwight has been traded a number of times, in different ways. The first time he went to LA, in a four team deal. The magic lost Dwight, and took back Aaron Afflalo, Nikola Vucevic, Al Harrington, and a pick. Then, later, when he went to Houston that was Free Agency. Then to Atlanta was also FA. Then when he got traded from ATL to Charlotte, Atlanta had to take back Marco Bellinelli, and Miles Plumlee. Then when they traded him to Brooklyn, they had to take back Mozgov, and then he signed with Washington in free agency. So every time that Dwight got traded, the team that moved him took back salary.
There is only one NBA player worth their SuperMax atm... It's Steph Curry.
You guys are sooo short sighted. We need a team before handing out a SuperMax. No team... No chance. We'll end up in the exact same cap & talent situation that we are on the verge of getting out of....
In The N.O. Podcast fumbling the ball hard by putting up an after-lottery stream so quickly but then having McNamara on it. May as well not bothered.
Edit: In MM's defense, he was doing pretty well until he said he'd trade Zion for Harden.
Last edited by Pelicanidae; 05-15-2019 at 12:41 AM.
Yes, the sure bet HOF, Goat Shooter of all time, 3x champion, 2x MVP, owns NBA records on 3pt shooter, and completely change the game.
What did AD do? Oh yeah... Be soft, score a bunch of points, and lost a lot of games.
https://www.si.com/nba/2019/03/19/nb...l-kemba-walker
Listing off Steph's accomplishments is pointless because I don't disagree that he deserves it. I just disagree that he's the ONLY ONE who deserves it.
Kawhi deserved that supermax from San Antonio. He turned it down, but he did deserve it. Giannis will be offered it, and he will deserve it.
To be clear, you don't have to match salaries in a trade if the other team has enough cap space to just absorb the contracts without going over the cap.
For example: If the Knicks REALLY wanted AD and cared about nothing else they have enough cap space to be able to absorb his contract in and only send picks back. They won't do this because they want to keep their salary to be able to sign players but it could happen.
You only need to match salaries if you're already over the cap or doing the trade will put you over the cap (I'm simplifying here it's more complex but this is the jist).
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